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Europe WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Battle Of Stalingrad (1942-1943) | unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad, Russia during WWII |
| Berlin Bombing | allies strategy to break the German citizens support for Hitler |
| Operation Overlord/Normandy Invasion | also known as D-Day, an invasion of the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6th 1944 |
| Liberation Of Paris | after D-Day, allies moved towards Paris (all signs pointed to German defeat) |
| Battle Of The Bulge (1944) | Hitler's attack to cut off the Allied supplies coming through the port of Antwerp, Belgium (Germans trap lines bulged outward/Hitler's last attempt) |
| Malmedy Massacre | German SS soldiers kill in cold blood over 80 U.S. soldiers after they had surrendered |
| George Patton | famous American General who fought in North Africa and Europe |
| Pearl Harbor (1941) | United States military base in Hawaii that was bombed by Japan on December 7th, bringing the United States into World War II |
| The Japanese Zero Plane | most advanced plane during the war (US captured one and used it to build the Hellcat plane) |
| Rommel (Desert Fox) | a German General who was the leader of troops in North Africa and Normandy, France |
| Barbarosa | Germany invades Russia and targeted three major cities (Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad) |
| General Montgomery | British general who led a successful counter-campaign against General Rommel in North Africa |
| B17 Flying Fortress | designed to protect itself using machine guns all over it, a plane used to bomb Germany |
| Soft Underbelly | Churchill thought he could keep casualties down by attacking Germany through the 'soft underbelly' of Italy rather than the cross-channel invasion through France advocated by both the Americans and Canadians |
| Ohama Beach | one of 5 beaches invaded during WWII D-Day (deep water, little to no cover, bluffs with Germans and machine guns) |
| Interment Camps | detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President |
| Stalin | leader of Russia during WWII |
| Panzer | a German tank |
| Casablanca Conference (1943) | Churchill and Roosevelt stated that the Allies would only accept an unconditional surrender from the Axis Powers |
| Allied Powers WWII | Great Britain, United States, Soviet Union |
| Axis Powers WWII | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Operation Torch (1942-1943) | British-American invasion of North Africa to drive German occupying forces out of advance positions |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII, leader of troops in Africa, and commander in D-Day invasion (elected president during integration of Little Rock Central High School) |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian leader who founded the Italian Fascist Party, and sided with Hitler and Germany in World War II (overthrown and assassinated by the Italian Resistance in 1945) |
| Tehran Conference (1943) | WWII conference between Stalin, FDR, and Churchill to develop a strategy for war against the Axis Powers (open a second front) |
| Allied Expeditionary Force | the army commanded by General Eisenhower that successfully stormed the beach at Normandy, France and surprised the German forces |
| Operation Mincemeat (1943) | elaborate plan to mislead the Axis powers and allow for the invasion of Sicily (creating an entire identity Major William Martin of the Royal Marines and planting "secret documents" on a corpse and allowing it to wash up on shore) |
| Operation Bodyguard | code name for the "fake" D-Day invasion across from Pas de Calais (Patton was used as a decoy) |
| Easy Company/Band Of Brothers | a Paratrooper Unit during the Battle of Normandy (had a positive and successful impact) |
| Higgins Boat/LCVP | a landing craft used extensively in amphibious landings in World War II (famous for usage in D-Day) |
| Ardennes Forest | forest in Luxembourg and Belgium where the Germans launched the Battle of the Bulge |
| Bastogne, Belgium | after Hitler's last failed attempt for an offensive attack, Allied bombers attacked German positions in this place |
| Yalta Conference (1945) | FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta, where Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany (in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War) |
| Adolf Hitler's Death | committed suicide on April 30th of 1945, after WWII |
| VE Day | victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered (May 8, 1945) |
| Tojo Hideki | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II |
| Yamamoto | Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 |
| Rape Of Nanking (1937) | Japan attacked China, raping and killing thousands of people |
| Atlantic Wall | Atlantic Wall was the German coastal fortifications along western coast of Europe in anticipation of Allies invasion through mainland Britain |
| Fortress Europe | the actual non-German European lands that were occupied by Germany |
| The Nazi SS | an elite military unit in Hitler's German army |
| FDR | 32nd President of the US during the Great Depression and WWII (instituted the New Deal, served from 1933 to 1945, the only president in US history to be elected to four terms) |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII |
| USS Arizona | US battleship that sank in 9 minutes with 1177 crew aboard (stands as the memorial to Pearl Harbor) |
| Maginot Line | line of defense built by France to protect against German invasion (stretched from Belgium to Switzerland) |
| Hitler's Bunker | an air raid shelter located near Berlin, Germany called the Führerbunker |
| Timeline | Pearl Harbor | Declare Japan | Invasion North Africa/Torch | Stalingrad | Sicily Invasion/Underbelly | Italy Surrenders | D-Day | Paris Liberated | Bulge | Hitler Dies | Germans Surrender | VE Day |
| D-Day Result | D-Day was a military success, opening Europe to the Allies and a German surrender less than a year later |
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