MWH World War II

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Where Nazi war criminals were held responsible for their actions

The code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

A battle in which U.S. forces took a heavily defended,small but strategically important island,

1939:Hitler invades _____________ , starting World War II

Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.

June 6, 1944, the day on which the Allied invasion of France via the Normandy coast began.

May 8, 1945, the day on which the Allied forces declared victory in Europe.

The Japanese navy admiral and strategist who called for an attack at Pearl Harbor

The systematic killing of an entire group of people

The lending of war materials to our allies

System of government dominated by far-right-wing forces and generally commanded by a dictator.

1. Literally "lightning war," attacking a nation suddenly and with overwhelming force.

August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allied forces declared victory over Japan.

The period after Great Britain and France declared war on , where neither side made an attack

The German air force, which was used heavily in campaigns such as the Battle of Britain in 1940

The code name for the U.S. government's secret program to develop an atomic bomb.

US Military Pacific strategy

August 1945:US drops 2^nd bomb on

Hitler’s elite security force that was responsible for the extermination of millions of Jews

The code name for the Allied invasion of France in 1944, on the beaches of Normandy.

Japanese two-house parliament

Japanese releases suicide pilots called

last large-scale battle in the Pacific theater in which U.S. forces invaded the Japanese island

The Nazi's euphemistic term for their plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe

1. A battle, where Japanese losses were so high they called it “the Island of Death”

Where the British Army was stranded in France and was rescued by Navy and civilian boats

1. A military alliance between several Atlantic states to safeguard them from USSR

The 32nd U.S. president, who led the country through the bulk of World War II

The German counter offensive to D-Day in December 1944 in the Ardennes

Chancellor Adolf Hitler's doctrine of German political union with Austria.

August 1945:US drops 1^st bomb on

The British and French policy of conceding to Hitler's demands to keep the peace.

The Country of ______________ falls to Germany in 1940

A U.S. Army general who held the position of supreme Allied commander in Europe

U.S. general who commanded forces in the Pacific

The turning point in the Pacific theater when Japan lost four of their aircraft carriers

An October and November 1942 battle paved the way for the Allied takeover of North Africa