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An agreement in which nations promise not to attack another
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Nonaggression pact
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“lightning war.” It involved using fast-moving airplanes and tanks, followed by massive infantry forces, to take enemy defenders by surprise and quickly overwhelm them.
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Blitzkrieg
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A French general, set up a government-in-exile in London. He committed all his energy to reconquering France.
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Charles de Gaulle
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The new British prime minister, had already declared that his nation would never give in
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Winston Churchill
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A series of battles between Germany and Britain air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941
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Battle of Britain
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Commander of the afrika korps
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Erwin Rommel
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A joint declaration between Roosevelt and Churchill
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Atlantic Charter
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Japan's greatest naval strategist, also called for an attack on the U.S. fleet in Hawaii.
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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An american naval base that was attack by Japan on December 7, 1941
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Pearl Harbor
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The battle that turned the tide of war in the Pacific.
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Battle of Midway
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The commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific,
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Douglas MacArthur
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A 1942-1943 battle WWII in which Allied troops drove Japanese forces from the Pacific Island
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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“master race.”
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Aryans
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The systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis.
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Holocaust
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“Night of Broken Glass.”
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Kristallnacht
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