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a surprise attack that uses a lot of force to get fast victories .

stands for a dictator. Extreme Nationalism, militarism, and supremacy. Authoritarian government with a dictator.

a treaty separating church and state in Italy

A civil war in which multiple countries in Europe helped aid different sides of the war. The allies (Britain and France etc.) helped one side, but Russia and Germany helped the other side of the civil war. It was the same countries on different sides as in WW2.

A town that was bombed during the Spanish Civil War.

A German Political party that ruled Germany from 1933 - 1945;Treaty of VersaillesTreaty of Versailles Hitler led that party.

Joint declaration between Winston Churchill (P.M of Great Britain) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (President of the U.S). It provided a broad statement of the U.S and Britain war aims.

Laws that restricted Jews rights in German.

Array of defense systems that France built during WW2 with Germany to avoid any invasions.

A treaty that officially ended WW1. It later caused WW2 because Germany had been under the most stress from the treaty.

When Jewish owned stores and Synagogues were set on fire and destroyed.

Name given to the German government between the end of the Imperial time and the beginning of Nazi Germany.

German Air Force/ Air defense. Component of the German armed forces.

Living space

NoNon-aggressionact signed by the Nazis and the Soviets shortly before WW2. They agreed to take NO military action against each other for the next 10 years.

A project that is one of the most transformative events of the 20th century. It ushered in the nuclear age with the development of the world's first atomic bombs. The building of atomic weapons began in 1942 in three secret communities across the nation.

Annexing of Austria

When Hitler committed genocide and killed jews as the final solution to get rid of them from Germany

It was a genocide of European Jews during WWII.

The northern part of Czechoslovakia. The area was desired by Germany not only for its territory but also because a majority of its population was 'ethnically' German. In the summer of 1938, Hitler demanded the annexation of the Sudetenland into Germany.

Strategy used by allies in Japan where the Allies would skip islands and attack the one after it in order to maximize their resources as well as cutting of chains of supplies from Japan.

An aspect of the climate of Russia that has contributed to military failures of several invasions of Russia.

Winston Churchill was an inspirational statesman, writer, orator, and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War.

He was the leader of the Nazi Party who rose to become the dictator of Germany.

Leader of Fascist Italy

Leader of the Soviet Union

He was a German field marshal during World War II. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.

A French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II

President of the United States

He, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed. In June 1945; He witnessed the signing of the charter of the United Nations, hopefully, established to preserve peace.

The incident caused the start of WW2. Germany invaded Poland which caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany (the official start of WW2).

This was the name for the secret invasion of the Soviet Union by their ally, Germany.

Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.

A major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.

A conference that was held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

A conference that was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. It was held at the Soviet Union's embassy at Tehran in Iran

A conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Trials after WW2 held by the United Nations in which country leaders were on trial for committing crimes/ war crimes.

Battle between Germany and Britain

A prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad on the Eastern Front of World War II. Germany's Army Group North advanced from the south, while the German-allied Finnish army invaded from the north and completed the ring around the city

It was the French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its territory occupied under the harsh terms of the armistice with Nazi Germany, it adopted a policy of collaboration.

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

Attack by Japanese forces on us, in return Atomic bomb, go boom on Japan.

A battle fought around the French port of Dunkirk during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany.

A conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations.

A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place from 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

A battle from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia

A place where Atomic bomb go boom on japan again

Initially By forming an Air Force and increasing Germany's Military, then he invaded the Balkans as well as Poland.

The Soviet union

The goal was to destroy Japan's ability to make war

They helped in the factories and as nurses. In factories they helped create more weapons and devices for soldiers, and nurses helped injured soldiers.

Japan intended the attack as a preventive action. Its aim was to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and those of the United States.

Hitler's racial ideology led to the systematic persecution and genocide of millions of individuals deemed racially inferior, including Jews, Roma, disabled people, homosexuals, and others during the Holocaust.

Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese militarists gained control of their respective countries by exploiting political instability, using propaganda and violence to suppress dissent, and securing the support of elites or military factions.