The World at War, The Allied Victory (Chapter 26 & 27) Flashcards
Rhineland
-Regained
Nazi/Soviet Pact
-Jointly invade Poland
-WII has begun
Axis/Allied Powers
-Axis: Germany, Italy, and Japan
-Allied: Great Britain, France, and Russia
Tojo
-Leader of Japan
Pearl Harbor
-US Navy Base
-December 7th, 1941
Erwin Rommel
-Desert Fox
-“Ghost Division”
Eisenhower
Holocaust
-“Final Solution”
-Mass genocide
Munich Pact
-Gave Hitler land (Czechoslovakia)
Lend Lease Act
-Lend materials to defend US
Luftwaffe
-aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II
Mussolini
-Fascism
Midway
-Turning point in the war
Operation Overlord
-D-Day
-Normandy, France
-Eisenhower (5k ships, 10k planes, 150k troops)
Iwo Jima
-Base near the Japanese Coast
Chamberlin
-British Prime Minister
Dunkirk
-Escape across the Channel
Operation Sea Lion
-Hitler’s invasion of Britain
Stalin
-Collectivism
Coral Sea
-Ships don’t engage
Stalingrad
-Germany invades USSR
-2 million killed or injured
-Winter forces Germany to retreat
-Order No. 227
Okinawa
-Bloodiest battle of the Pacific war
Sudetenland
-Regained
Blitzkrieg
-Lightning War