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WW
Question | Answer |
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Benito Mussolini | Italian Fascist Dictator |
Adolf Hitler | German dictator, head of the nazi |
Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924-1953 |
Neville Chamberlain | Prime Minister of Great Britian, Made the Munich Agreement with hitler |
General Dwight D. Eisenhower | The Supreme Allied commander in Europe |
Tuskegee Ariman | famous segregated unit of African Americans pilotc |
Code Talkers | Navajo Indians reecatied by the U.S. Marine corps toops nit nesarges in the Nurjo language |
Pearl Habor | U.S. Navel base attacked by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Led to Americans joining the war effort |
D-Day | Allied invasion offrance on June 6, 1944 |
Yalta Conference | The conference in which the allies planed the post-war world |
Battle of the Bulge | The finale German assult in December 1944 in the ardennes regoin of belgium and Luxemburg |
battle of Midway | The U.S. victory one Japannese off Midway Island that paroed to be the farning point of the war |
Nuremberg Trails | The war crime strials of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Germany |
Postdam Confrence | The allies meeting in post dam, Germany to plant trend of the war |
Lend-lease Act | An act which allowed the U.S. to lend wepons to allies |
Axis Powers | The rome-Berlin aris, the alliances between mussolini and hitler ingrt joined by japan |
Appeasment | The meeting of demands form a hostile power in order to avoid war |
Blizkrieg | German "lighning war" tatics. In an effort to stike on oppent stragically and quickly |
Holocaust | The Nazi german crimw of killing one million jews and other preseuted people in confration camps |
Manhattan Project | The troops secret goverment project to develop the atomic bomb |
Genocide | The deli killing of a large number of people froma particular nation or ethic group with the aim at destroying the nation organism |
Island Hopping | The allied strges int eh pacific of invadion selection Island, and waiting them as bases to advance closer to Japan |
Facism | political philosopy that adlooks a strong nations dicatorship |
Totalitarianism | A system of goverment is controled and dictator and religions complete advance to the state |
Allied powers (ww2) | the "big tree" the U.S the Soviet Union and ghreat beitian allied together during ww2 their alliance brought the victory during ww2 |