Course of WW2

Free City of Danzig

City State protected by LON

Schleswig-Holstein

German battleship that fired the first shots

Attolico

Italian ambassador

Roosevelt

President of USA during WW2

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Russian-German non-aggression agreement

Pact of Defence and Mutual Assistance (Baltic States)

Pact the Baltic states had to sign with Russia

The Winter War

Russo-Finnish War

London Poles

Polish government exiled to UK

Hans Frank

Nazi Governor General of Poland, King of Poland

Ghetto

Segregated Jewish neighbourhood

Phony War (Sitzkrieg)

Quiet phase in early WW2 that had no fighting other than the Winter War

Manstein Plan

Hitler's plan to attack France through Belgium

Ardennes Forest

South of Belgium unprotected by Allies and exploited by the Germans

Dunkirk

Point in France where Allied Troops were evacuated after Hitler's halt

Churchill

New British Prime Minister during WW2

Operation Dynamo

Evacuation of Dunkirk by the British

Vichy

City where the Nazi puppet government operated in France

Festung Europa

Fortress Europe which was created by Germans on conquered land to prevent a British invasion

Operation Seelowe (Sea Lion)

Hitler's amphibious plan to attack England

The Blitz

Term coined by British regarding bombing Britsh cities.

Tripartite Pact

Pact between Italy, Germany, Japan

Suez Canal

British took control of the Suez canal.

General Erwin Rommel

German commander in North Africa, known as the "Desert Fox"

General Bernard Montgomery

British general in North Africa known as "Monty"

Taranto

Italian port city where the British launched an air assault torpedo at the Italians.

Swordfish

WW1 bi-planes

Operation Barbarossa (Red Beard)

Plan for a German invasion of Russia

War of Annihilation

Where rules of warfare are disregarded starting with invasion into Russia

Einsatzgruppen

Nazi special action group to kill Jews

Hermann Goring

Hitler's successor and mass murder letter writer

Reinhard Heydrich

Led mass murders

900-day seige of Leningrad

Hitler's plan to starve Leningrad into submission

Wannsee Conference

German conference in Germany to organize the mass murders

Endlosung

Nazi solution to the "Jewish" problem in Europe

Battle of Stalingrad

Red Army victory and military turning point of WW2

Uncle Joe

Stalin's nickname in USA by the citizens

Katyn Massacare

Forest in Poland where 15,000 Polish officers killed by Russians were found and reported to the Red Cross by Germans.

Katyn Forest

Location of the Katyn Massacare

Auscwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka

6 Jewish killing centers

Dachau

First Nazi concentration camp.

Rape of Nanjing

Japanese attack on Chinese capital to terrorize China.

Open-door policy

Where all nations would have equal economic access to Asian countries

Oil embargo

Effective ban on oil trade with Japan and USA

Tora Tora Tora

Japanese code word for successful raid on Pearl Harbor

USS Arizona

American Battleship sunk at Pearl Harlbor

Operation Torch

Allied invasion of North Africa from Morocco

General George Patton

American General in Operation Torch

Gander

Newfoundland dog who particpated in defending Hong Kong from Japan and received the Dickin Medal

Fascit Grand Council

Council that called for Mussolini to step down.

King Vittorio Emanuele III

King of Italy asking Mussolini to leave

Pietro Badoglio

Leader of Italy after Mussolini

Island of Ponza and Island of Maddalena

Mussolini stops after resigning

Gran Sasso Mountain

Where Mussolini was held

Operation Baytown

Allied invasion of the Italian boot.

Operation Avalanche

Allied invasion of Salerno

Operaion Slapstick

Allied invasion of Taranto

Otto "Scarface" Skorzeny

Hitler's most famous commando who saved Mussolini

Gargnano

Where Mussolini was restored to power

Battle of Ortona

Where Canadian troops invaded Ortona

General Mark Clark

American General leading the invasion of italy

Claretta Petacci

Mussolini's mistress

Atlantic Wall

Hitler's anti-British fortifications

Operation Jubilee

Code name for the Dieppe Raid

Tehran Conference

Meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchhill in Iran

Operation Overlord

Amphibious on France from Britain

Operaion Bodyguard

Deception program to mislead Hitler with a phantom Army led by Patton

Operation Neptune

Allied landing on Normandy beaches and first part of Overlord

Operation Anvil

Allied invasion of Sourthern France to meet with Normandy

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

Man who attempted to assasinate Hitler

Wolfsschanze

Hitler's headquarters

July 20th Plot

Assasination attempt on Hitler

Yalta Conference

Conference where Allies planned to fight Japan and deciding how Germany was divided.

General Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme Allied Commander who later becomes president

Harry Truman

Became President of USA when FDR died.

Eva Hitler

Hitler's wife

Wilhelm Keitel

General who signed the German surrender

Postsdam Conference

Conference that divided Germany into democratic West Germany and communist East Germany

Clement Atlee

(Labour Party) Prime minister of England after Churchill

Berlin Wall

Wall built separating East and West Berlin to prevent people escaping communist Berlin

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

International organization created against communist expansion

Warsaw Pact Treaty Organization

The USSR's organization

Manhattan Project

Secret US project to make the atomic bomb

Mariana Islands Campaign

USA captures Japanese held Islands and are close enough to attack Japanese home islands

Operation Olympic

Allied invasion of Kyushu

Operation Coronet

Allied invasion of Honshu

Blitzkrieg

Lightning War

Little Boy

The name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Carl Andrew Spaatz

American General who said that there was no POW camps in Hiroshima

USS Missouri

Where Japan surrendered

Self-Defence Force

Reduced Japanese army

Nagasaki

Where the second atomic bomb was dropped

Desert War

Campaign in North Africa for access to middle east oil

Bessarabia

Region in Romania

Molotov

First minister to visit Germany for diplomacy since 1917

Rattenkreig

War of Rats in Stalingrad

Volga River

Important river in the invaison of Russia

Hong Kong

Japanese invasion where Gander died

Operation Husky

Allied invasion of Sicily

Calais

Location of phantom army and Operation Bodyguard

Dongo

Where Mussolini was captured