Pearlharbor | | Technological breakthrough that gave the RAF a decisive advantage in the summer and fall of 1940 |
sleepinggiant | | Japanese military leader during WW2 |
Maginot | | Germany made a secret treaty to divide Poland with this nation prior to the begining of the war |
Sicily | | Italian aggression led to German troops attempting to sieze the routes to the Middle East |
Hitler | | Codename given to America's secret of breaking the Japanese code |
radar | | According to hitler's orders, the Luftwaffe was given this target during the Blitz |
USSR | | American strategy for reaching positions to bomb and invade the Japanese home islands |
London | | Name of the operation for the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941 |
Barbarossa | | Germany, Italy, Japan |
Dootlittleraid | | Turning point, Sept. 1942 to Feb. 1943, Soviet forces defend, counter-attack and finally decitame the german 6th Army |
Roosevelt | | German leader during WW2 |
AXIS | | Turning point in North Africa, British forces stop the Germans in Egypt and begin driving them back to Tunisia |
Stlain | | Target of Japanese plan to hurt the US so badly America would be powerless to interfere in the Pacific |
Allies | | US forces held out for 6 months against a strong Japanese invasion force. Thier sacrafice bought the US time to arm and train |
NorthAfrica | | Name of the operation given by the Americans for the invasion of North Africa |
ElAlamein | | Italian leader during WW2 |
Stalingrad | | First offensive of the War by US forces, Aug. 1942, US is unprepared but must seize the initiative from the Japanese |
Tarawa | | Secret mission to strike at the heart of Japan, a huge moral boost but had litlle military effect |
Churchill | | Yamamoto warned that "we have awoken the wrath of a _____________" in refernece to America's industrial might |
blitzkrieg | | literally lightning war |
majic | | the British pulled off a micacle here byt saving their Army in 1940 |
Tojo | | Soviet leader during WW2 |
islandhopping | | US president during WW2 |
Torch | | Germany started WW2 by the invasion of this country |
Midway | | Name of the defensive line that made up France's pre-war defense strategy |
BattleofBritain | | Great Britain, USSR, USA, China, Free Forces of conqured nations |
Philippines | | Turning point in June 1942, US forces use intelligence to ambush the Japanese |
Dunkirk | | British Prime Minister during WW2 |
Guadalcanal | | First island taken by the US offensive across the central Pacific |
Mussolini | | Location of the first Allied invasion of the European mainland |
Poland | | Completely fought in the air, this was the first time the Germans were stopped from achieveing their goals |