 | Term | Definition |
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Tehran Conference |
Gathering of allied leaders that laid foundation for focus on Germany and that later foundation of the UN |
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Yalta Conference |
Decided the future of Poland and the German Partition. The Russia's held a strong advatnage and dictated some terms but still agreed to fight Japan. |
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Patriotic War of the Fatherland |
Soviet call towards self-defense against a rival ideology. |
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Free French |
French under leadership of de Gaulle resisted the Germans and ruled in exile. |
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Charles de Gaulle |
French Colonel, later General, who escaped France with troops and money to continue the fight with the Nazis. |
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Stalingrad |
Highwater advance of the Nazis into the USSR, the place where the tide turned into Soviet favor as 100,000 germans were captured. |
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Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere |
Japanese lead coalition of Asiatic nations who favored the Japanese as liberators from the Europeans and joined them in the war. |
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Battle of the Coral Sea |
Early deadlock in Naval fighting that prepared the US for Midway. |
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