European Theater Flashcards

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Appeasement

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  • Giving into the demands of your enemy in order to avoid war
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Nonaggression pact

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  • Also known as the friendship pact

- Germany and the Soviet Union

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Blitzkrieg

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  • Created by Germany, Germany would attack the enemy with air power first, then they would use tanks, then army would come, England it was not taken over
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Operation torch

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– 1942 after the US finally entered the war (the US and Britain) planned an invasion on north Africa it was under the command of Dwight D Eisenhower

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Allied invasion of Italy

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The allies attacked Germany knowing that they went back into Italy it was unsuccessful

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Atlantic wall

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The Germans have built a massive difference of Fort

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Battle of the Bulge

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Germany’s last attempt of winning the war by attacking Belgium and France border it took place in December 1944 the German kept Americans threaded for a three weeks before the allies could come to the rescue

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D-Day

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Hitler took his own life on April 30, 1945 he did it to avoid been captured by Soviet forces this Soviet union American coordinated their efforts in some meetings the Nazi forces surrendered to the allies on May 8, 1945 ending the war

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