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Anchluss of Austria
The union of Austria and Germany orchestrated by Hitler. -
Munich Confrence
British and French leaders chose appeasment for Hitlers demands(sudentenland). which they got from the Czechs. -
Nazi Soviet Pact
An agreement between Hitler and Stalin to keep peace between each country. -
Hitlers Blitzkrieg
Hitler orders a "lighting war" or constant bombing. -
Operation Sea Lion
Hitler invades Britain. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler breaks the Nazi Soviet pact and invades the Soviet union to take natural resources. -
Pearl Harbor
Surprise attack on American soil from japan, the cause of the US joining WWII. -
Island Hopping
a goal of the US to defeat the Japanese one island at a time, and allowed them to move north. -
Battle of El Alamein (big 3)
FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet and decided to first fight the war in Europe and then the Pacific (Japan). -
Yalta confrence
The big 3 strategized on what Stalin and the Soviet Union would do. -
D-Day
Surprise attack from the allies on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
United Nations
The UN would play a greater role in the world affairs than did its precessor, the League of Nations. -
V-E Day
Germany surredened. offically the war in Europe ended the next day. -
Manhattan Project
A code name for the atomic bomb. Truman warned the japanese that they should surrender because of the US' WMD. -
The A-Bomb
Japan refuses to surrender twice , so the US bombed Hiroshima. -
The A-Bonb
The US drops the Atomic bomb on Nagasaki. -
Truman Doctrine
The idea of containment, and limitation of communism to the areas alreadu under Soviet control. -
Marshall Plan
to strangthen democratic governments. -
Division of Germany
Eastern and Western coundties split and took control of parts of Germany. -
NATO
Treaty where members pledged to help one another if any one of them were attacked. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union's own military alliance.
