| Term | Definition |
|---|
| October 29, 1929 | Black Tuesday, when stock markets crashed |
| March on Rome | October 1922, Mussolini marches on Viktor Emmanuel III for power |
| Nuremberg Laws | Anti-Semitic laws issued by the Nazis |
| Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact | Between Hitler and Stalin, they wouldn't interfere with each other |
| Dunkirk | Blitzkrieg through Belgium, trapping France and isolating Britain |
| de Gaulle | Leader of "Free France" |
| El Alamein | African Ally victory over Rommel and combined German/Italian forces |
| Rommel | the Desert Fox |
| Stalingrad | Russian turning point in the war, Enemy at the Gates |
| June 6, 1944 | D Day |
| Chamberlain | Gullible Prime Minister, before Churchill (the one and only) |
| Franco | Spanish General and dictator |
| Eisenhower | General at Normandy Beach, leaded of Allied forces |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor, "A day that will live in infamy" |
| Bataan | Forced march of American soldiers by the Japanese |
| Hindenburg | Chancellor who allowed Hitler to gain power in 1933 |
| September 2, 1945 | VJ Day |
| May 8, 1945 | VE Day |
| Midway | Where Americans sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers |
| September 1, 1939 | Invasion of Poland, start of WWII |
| Mussolini | Italian Dictator |
| Beer Hall Putsch and Mein Kampf | First failed attempt by Hitler, his anti-semitic book |
| Brown Shirts | Hitler's first power gang, used for intimidation |
| Gestapo | Secret police, killed political enemies and all that |
| SS | Hitler's personal body guards, sick dudes |
| Blitzkrieg | "lightning war", bombard and race through |
| Maginot Line | French fortification |
| Siegfried Line | German fortification |
| Battle of Britain | Air raid of Britain by the Germans |
| Allied Invasion | D Day and all that |
| Battle of the Bulge | Last German Offensive |
| Nazi | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Hiroshima | First Atomic bomb, 70,000 instantly killed |
| Nagasaki | Second atomic bomb, 40-70,000 instantly killed |
| Number's of WWII | 15 million military, 11 million civilians, 6 million Jews |
| Japan and Manchuria | Second Sino-Japanese War |
| Vichy France | Puppet France, Petain |
| Beaches of Normandy | Gold, Sword, Juno, Utah, Omaha |
| US Generals | Eisenhower, Patton, Macarthur, Bradley |
| Order | Guadalcanal, Solomon, Marshall Islands, Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa |
| Himmler | Leader of SS |
| Goring | Leader of the Luftwaffe |
| Rommel | Desert Fox |
| Goebbels | Leader of propaganda and proponent of Final Solution |
| Mengele | Sick German Doctor who experiment on twins |
| Teheran | First Meeting of big 3 |
| Yalta | Second meeting of big 3 |
| Potsdam | Big 3, sans Roosevelt, last meeting |
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