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ww11

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Benito mussolini italin fascist dictator
Adolf hitler german dictator , head of the nazi party
joseph stalin communist dictator of sovoit union for 1924-1953
Neville chamberlain prime minister of great britian, made the munich agreement with hitler
General Dwight D. Eisenhover the supreme allied commander in europe
tuskegee Airman famous segregated unit of African american pilots
code talkers navajo indians recrutied by the u.s marine corps to transmit messages in navajo laugauge
Pearl Harbor U.s navel base attacked by japanese forces on december 7 1941 led to americans joining the war effort
D-day allied invasion of france on june 6 1944
yalta conference the confrence in which the alliess planned the post-war world
Battle of the bulge the german assult in december 1944 in the ardennes region pf belguim and luxemburg.
battle of midway the US victory over japenese off midway island that proved to be the turning point of the war
nurmburg trials the war crimes trirals of nazi leaders in nuremburg germany
potsdam confrence the allies meeting in potsdam, germany to plan the end of the war
lend-lease act an act which allowed the united states to lend weopons to allies
axis powers the rome-berlin axis, the alliance between mussolini and hiter later joined by japan
appeasements the meeting of demands from hostile power in oer to avoid war.
blitzkreig german" lighting war" tatics, in an effort to strike and opponent strategically and quickly
holocaust the nazi german crime of killing more than 11million jew and other persuctuted peoples in concentration camps
manhatten project the top secret goverment project to develop the atomic bomb
genocide the delibrate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
island hopping the allied strategy in the pacific of invading islands, and using them as bases to advance closer to japan
facism political philosophy that advocates a strong nationalistic dictatorship
totalitarianism a system of goverment that is centralised and dictatatorized and requires complete obedience to a state
allied powers the "BIG THREE" the us. the soviet union and great britian allied together during world war 2 their allinace brought about victory during ww11
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