World War 2

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Blitzkrieg

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German’s new tactic of lightning war using tanks and planes to avoid the bloody trench warfare.

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The Maginot Line

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Frenches newly constructed fortifications to avoid trench warfare

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Luftwaffe

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The german airforces

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Battle of Britain

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The air war between England and Germany for Englands survival, with bombing raids and radars.

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Dunkirk

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After french surendered england was left alone to fight and was trapped along the coast by the German advance into France, so naval cessels and private boats rescued 340000 men

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RAF

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royal air force

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radar

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a technological advance that allowed the british to allocate their planes to defend against the raids in the Battle of Britain

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Operation Barbarossa

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the war that hitler plotted on russia

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Stalingrad

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the critical battle of the war. the TURNING POINT battle in europe where germans were forced to defend as russian armies advanced

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Erwin Rommel and the afrika korps

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nazi hero who headed the invasion of aftrica that was halted by the english at the battle of el alamein

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General Dwight Eisenhower

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the american general that launched an allied attack no itally and removed mussolini from power. He landed force in France and was in charge of DDay invasion

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Battle of Bulge

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american tanks commanded by George Patton broke through the german lines and stormed berlin and hitler committed suicide, and the germans surrendered to the allied powers

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Final Solution

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decision to exterminate European Jews. Tntrusted by the SS.

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Reinhard Heydrich

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himmler’s deputy in charge of final solution

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Death Camps

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Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor

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Concentration camps and liberated camps

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Dachau, Buchenwald, Bergen Belsen

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Nuremburg Trials

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trials for nazi leaders and participants in the holocaust for crimes agains humanity

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embargo

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Us refuses to sell iron oil rubber steel to Japan

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Admiral Yamamoto

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Commander of the japanese naby that launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the base of the United States Pacific Fleet

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Bataan Death March

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the brutal march back where many american prisoners died of starvation and abuse

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Battle of Midway

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first all carrier battle where the us navy destroyed 4 japanese carriers while losing only one, and from then on japan was on defensive

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Douglas MacArthur

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american commander in the Pacific that developed a strategy called island hopping. bypassed strongly held positions while making his way to japan. had pattles on iwo Jima and Okinawa. Kamikazes flew their planes directly into american ships in an attempt to destroy them, giving their lives.

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the manhattan Project

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the making of the attomic bomb that would release tremendous amounts of energy by splitting atoms. very secret. truman did not know that it existed until after he became president.

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The Potsdam Declaration

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urged japan to unconditionally surrender or face prompt and utter destruction. Bombed hiroshima and then nagasaki which ended the war.

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Holocaust

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hitler’s attempt to exterminate the european jews