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Japan invades China
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Munich Conference
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Blitzkrieg
German word meaning "lightning war", a sudden, massice attack with combined air and ground forces, intended to achieve a quick victory -
Non-Aggression Pact
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Germany Invades Poland
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Battle of Britain
Germans began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast. Germany launched an air war, the Luftwaffe began making bombing runs over Britian in order to gain total control of the skes by destroying Britian's Royal Air Force. -
Lend-Lease Act
A law that was passed to allowthe United States to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the Axis powers. -
Operation Barbarossa
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Pearl Harbor
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Bataan Death March
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Battle of Midway
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Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler wanted to capture Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus Mountains and wipe out Stalingrad because Hitler took offense in the southern Soviet Union. -
The Holocaust
Before and during World War II, Nazis would murder Jews and other groups in Europe -
D-Day
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Battle of the Bulge
A month-long battle that took place in World War II, in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive war. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of Okinawa
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V-E Day
May 8th is named for the "Victory in Europe Day" on which General Eisenhower's acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
The bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
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V-J Day
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Warsaw Pact
A military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satallites