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Vichy

Vichy

City in central France where a puppet state governed unoccupied France and the French colonies

Lend-Lease Act

allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S

Battle of Britain

An aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance.

Siege of Leningrad

German forces surrounded this Russian city, cutting off supplies. About one million people died of starvation and cold weather

Pearl Harbor

Base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter the war.

Battle Of El Alamein

1942-British victory in WWII that stopped the Axis forces from advancing into Northern Africa

Battle of Stalingrad

Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union.

Battle of the Coral Sea

A battle between Japanese and American naval forces that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia.

Battle of Midway Island

A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted another assault on Hawaii and did enough damage to halt the Japanese advance. Was a major turning point in the war against Japan.

Guadalcanal

first U.S. land victory over the Japanese, 1943

Island-hopping

A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others

D-Day

June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.

Battle of the Bulge

A 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War II.

Battle of Kursk

German forces are soundly defeated by the Soviets, greatest tank battle of WWII

V-E Day

May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered

Hiroshima

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

Nagasaki

Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug 8th, 1945.

V-J Day

-9/2/45
-the big three (Yalta Conference)
-Churchill (BRI), Stalin(USSR), Roosevelt(USA)
-February 1945
-Occupation zones
-BRI, USSR, USA, FRA
-Nuremberg Trails

Nonaggression Pact

An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another

Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement

Roosevelt's compromise for helping Britain as he could not sell Britain US destroyers without defying the Neutrality Act; Britain received 50 old but still serviceable US destroyers in exchange for giving the US the right to build military bases on British Islands in the Caribbean.

Atlantic Charter

1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII amd to work for peace after the war

Winston Churchill

A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.

Erwin Rommel

"Desert Fox"-May 1942; German and Italian armies were led by him and attacked British occupied Egypt and the Suez Canal for the second time; were defeated at the Battle of El Alamein; was moved to France to oversee the defenses before D-Day; tried to assassinate Hitler.

Douglas MacAuthur

Led the american troops defending the Philippines after Pearl Harbor

Blitzkrieg

"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

Luftwaffe

German Air Force

Aircraft Carriers

ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes