World War II

Germany and the Soviet Union signed this pact and promised not to attack each other. Germany offered Stalin control of Eastern Poland and the Baltic States.

Policy of giving into an an aggressor's demands in order to keep peace

Lightening War - a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces.

British statesman and leader during World War II

the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it

Codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II -- led to USSR joining the Allies

Base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter the war

U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942.It marked a turning point in World War II.

He was one of the most-known American military leaders of WWII (He liberated the Phillipines and made the Japanese surrender at Tokyo in 1945, also he drove back North Korean invaders during the Korean War)

Allied paln to recapture Japanese held islands by getting one island at a time.

Hitler's plan to invade Great Britain by taking out the Royal Air Force then to land 250,000 soldiers on England's shores

Air Force of Great Britain; contained 2,900 planes

Air Force of Germany; contained 4,500 planes

Japanese forced about 60,000 of americans and philippines to march 100 miles with little food and water, most died or were killed on the way

Germanic Peoples; Hitler's "Master Race"