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History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Herman Goering | WWI German air ace, and later head of the Luftwaffe |
| Rudolf Hess | WWI officer, and arrested alone with Hitler at the Munich Putsch |
| Joseph Goebbels | In charge of Nazi Propaganda |
| Ernst Roehm | Head of SA and killed by Hitler in Night of Long Knives |
| Heinrich Himmler | Military background, came from a wealthy family, and was head of the Gestapo |
| German-Italian alliance | Pact of Steel |
| Francisco Franco | Fascist dictator in a civil war in spain |
| 1936 | Italy conquered Ethiopia |
| 1936 | Hitler sent troops into Rhineland |
| March 1939 | Hitler took Czechoslovakia |
| 1939 Italy | Italy took Albania |
| September 1, 1939 | Germany invaded Poland |
| Hitlers military offensive strategy | Blitzkrieg |
| Russian buffer zones | Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, and half of Poland |
| April 1940 to mid-May 1940 | Hitler took Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Norway, and Denmark |
| French and British troops manned | Maginot Line |
| June 1940 | Hitler took France |
| August-October 1940 | Battle of Britain |
| October 1940 | Italy attacked Greece and Egypt but lost |
| Fall of 1940 | Germany took Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Greece |
| Erwin Rommel captured | Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya |
| Operation Barbarossa | Name of the Nazi attack against the Soviet union |