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WWII Events (Hannah)
Events in WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The year Hitler came to power in his own government | 1933 |
| The date of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact | Aug. 23, 1939 |
| The date that Britain and France declare war on Germany | Sept 1 and 3 1939 |
| German armed forces | Wermarcht |
| Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7, 1941 |
| Battle of Midway | Turning point of the war in the Pacific |
| Bernard Montgomery | Fought in the desert against Rommel, British Field Marshall, took command of the army |
| Casablanca Conference | A meeting between FDR and Churchill in 1943. They formed a strategy in secret to open front against Italy through the Mediterranean Sea . |
| Marshall Edwin Rommel | German commander "desert fox" who tried to force the british out of Africa |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 |
| Battle at Leyte Gulf | the first fight for the Philippines, was the largest navel battle in history |
| Okinawa | The bloodiest single campaign of the war, took place on Easter Sunday April 1, 1945 |