1. WWII
Vocabulary

2. German-Soviet promise, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
Nonaggression Pact

3. A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. 
Blitzkrieg

4. The Maginot Line, named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations that France constructed on the French side of its borders.
Maginot Line

5. German term for an air force. 
Luftwaffe

6. The Night of Broken Glass - a massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the Germany on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day
Kristallnacht

7. A Jewish quarter is the area of a city
Ghettos

8. The Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people under the rule of Adolf Hitler.
Final Solution

9. Concentration camp complex in Poland was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime: forced labor and a killing center.
Auschwitz

10. Genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews.
Holocaust

11. Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began on 22 June 1941.
Operation Barbarossa

12. Churchill and Roosevelt met on August 9 and 10, 1941 aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, to discuss their respective war aims for the Second World War and to outline a postwar international system.
Atlantic Charter

13. Important People Winston Churchill
Became prime minister of England shortly after World War II began and served through the end of the war in Europe. Churchill symbolized the fierce determination of the British to resist conquest by the Germans.
Important People Winston Churchill

14. Nicknamed the Desert Fox. Hitler’s youngest General
Nicknamed the Desert Fox. Hitler’s youngest General. Defeated by British General Montgomery at the Battle of El Alamein signifying the end of Nazi control of N. Africa.
Edwin Rommel

15. Japanese Marshal during World War II
Japanese Marshal during World War II. Mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Isoroku Yamamoto

16. French General who fled to Great Britain after the Fall of France to Germany. He assisted the allies to defeat the Axis powers during WWII.
• Charles De Gaulle

17. Totalitarian dictator of communist Russia during WWII.
Stalin

18. Commander of U. S. troops in the Pacific
Commander of U.S. troops in the Pacific. Defeated the Japanese at Midway, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa using the strategy of Island Hopping. Japanese surrender to MacArthur September 2, 1945 after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Douglas MacArthur

19. • 1. Roosevelt (FDR) 2. Truman
1. President of the United States during the Great Depression and WWII. He convinced Congress to declare war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor leading the U.S. into WWII
2. Succeeded Roosevelt as President. Responsible for the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan
• 1. Roosevelt (FDR) 2. Truman

20. American general. Supreme Allied Commander of Allied forces in Europe and North Africa. Became President of the United States in 1957
Dwight Eisenhower

21. 1942. American military raid on Tokyo- capital of Japan and island around it. Also known as the Tokyo Raid. Shows that America will defend itself and that Japan is not invincible. Doolittle is the general that leads the raid.
Doolittle Raid

22. Churchill, Truman, Stalin meet in Aug
Churchill, Truman, Stalin meet in Aug to discuss the Post War world
Finalized plans for occupation of Europe
Ultimatum to Japan – demanding unconditional surrender
Potsdam Conference