Name______________________Per_____

European and Middle East Theatres:

National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI)

Waffen SS / Heinrich Himmler

Herman Goering

Josef Goebbels

The Gestapo

Axis powers

The Third Reich - "Der Fuhrer" Adolf Hitler

Italy - "Il Duce" Benito Mussolini

The Empire of the Rising Sun - Emperor Hirohito

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

Munich Agreement

Sudetenland

September 1st, 1939

Blitzkrieg

"Sitzkrieg"

the Maginot Line

Vichy France

the Free French / Charles DeGaulle

Dunkirk

Operation Sea Lion

Royal Navy

the Battle of Britain

the Royal Air Force (RAF) versus the Luftwaffe

Hurricanes and Spitfires

Radar

the Ultra secret

U-487 / HMS Bulldog

misinformation

The Blitz

Prime Minister Winston Churchill

the Election of 1940 (FDR vs Wendell Willkie)

the Neutrality Acts

the Selective Service Act

the Lend-Lease Act

the Destroyer Deal

the Atlantic Charter

The Battle of the Atlantic

U-boats

Operation Drumbeat

Convoys

Liberty Ships

Operation Barbarossa

Josef Stalin

the Red Army

"Scorched earth" policy

the Seige of Leningrad

the Battle of Stalingrad

the Russian winter

The Battle of El Alamein - Oct.1942

Gen. Irwin Rommel - the "Desert Fox" / Gen. Bernard Montgomery - British 8th Army

Italian Campaign

Anzio

Japanese Americans

Audie Murphy

D-Day - June 6th, 1944

Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha, Utah

General Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower

General George "blood and guts" Patton

the Battle of the Hedgerows

The Battle of the Bulge - Dec. 1944

Malmedy Massacre

V1 and V2 rockets

round the clock bombing

fire bombing/fire storm (Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo)

the Election of 1944 - FDR vs Thomas Dewey

the Yalta Conference (Feb.1945)

The "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin)

FDR dies - April, 1945

Vice President Harry S.Truman

WAVES

WACS

Pacific Theatre:

Tojo

Greater Southeast Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

Japanese invasion of China -1931

The "Rape of Nanjing" - 1937

"Tora, Tora, Tora" - Dec.7th, 1941

Admiral Yamamoto

General Douglas MacArthur

Corrigidor

Bataan Death March

Battle of the Coral Sea

Midway

Aircraft carriers

Island Hopping

Iwo Jima

Mount Surabachi

Burma Campaign

Chaing Kai-shek

Kamikaze - "divine wind"

the Manhattan Project

the Enola Gay

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

USS Missouri