front 1 ALLIES | back 1 NATIONS THAT FOUGHT WITH THE U.S. AGAINST THE AXIS |
front 2 MUSSOLINI | back 2 FASCIST DICTATOR OF ITALY FROM EARLY 1920'S UNTIL HE |
front 3 HITLER | back 3 NAZI LEADER OF GERMANY FROM 1933 TO 1945, RESPONSIBLE FOR |
front 4 AXIS | back 4 ALLIANCE BETWEEN ITALY AND GERMANY IN 1936 |
front 5 ROME-BERLIN-TOKYO AXIS | back 5 1940 ALLIANCE BETWEEN ITALY, GERMANY,JAPAN |
front 6 BLITZKRIEG | back 6 GERMAN WAR WHICH MEANS LIGHTNING WAR, NEW TYPE OF |
front 7 MAGINOT LINE | back 7 LARGE UNDERGROUND FORTS FRANCE BUILT TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM GERMANY, THE GERMANS WENT AROUND THEM AND THEY PROVED USELESS |
front 8 CHARLES DE GUALLE | back 8 LEADER OF THE FREE FRENCH WHO FOUGHT AGAINST |
front 9 BATTLE OF BRITAIN | back 9 AIR BATTLE WHERE HITLER TRIED TO DESTROY THE |
front 10 LUFTWAFFE | back 10 NAME FOR THE GERMAN AIR FORCE |
front 11 RAF | back 11 ROYAL AIR FORCE, BRITISH AIR FORCE |
front 12 WINSTON CHURCHILL | back 12 BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DURING WWII |
front 13 FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (FDR) | back 13 U.S. PRESIDENT FROM 1932-1945 |
front 14 LEND LEASE | back 14 U.S. WOULD GIVE ENGLAND FOOD AND WAR EQUIPMENT THEY |
front 15 ATLANTIC CHARTER | back 15 AGREEMENT BETWEEN CHURCHILL (GB) AND FDR |
front 16 NONAGGRESSION PACT | back 16 1939 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE USSR AND |
front 17 OPERATION BARBAROSSA | back 17 HITLER CODE NAME FOR HIS INVASION OF THE |
front 18 STALINGRAD | back 18 CITY IN USSR WHERE THE GERMANS SUFFERED THEIR FIRST |
front 19 JAPANESE EXPANSION | back 19 JAPAN WAS TAKING OVER LANDS IN CHINA, AND |
front 20 EMBARGO | back 20 A RESTRICTION OF TRADE, ONE NATION STOPS TRADING WITH |
front 21 DEC. 7, 1941 | back 21 JAPAN LAUNCHED A SNEAK ATTACK ON U.S. MILITARY BASES |
front 22 DESERT FOX | back 22 NICKNAME FOR GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL WHO HAD EARLY |
front 23 BERNARD MONTGOMERY | back 23 BRITISH GENERAL WHO STOPPED ROMMEL IN NORTH AFRICA AND THEN HELPED DEFEAT HIM |
front 24 OPERATION TORCH | back 24 AMERICAN INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA IN 1942 THAT |
front 25 GENERAL EISENHOWER | back 25 AMERICAN SUPREME COMMANDER OF ALL ALLIED |
front 26 DOUGLAS MACARTHUR | back 26 AMERICAN GENERAL WHO COMMANDED IN THE |
front 27 HOLOCAUST | back 27 HITLER HATRED OF JEWS LED TO THE MURDER OF 6 MILLION |
front 28 OSCAR SCHINDLER | back 28 A GERMAN BUSINESSMAN WHO SAVED THOUSANDS |
front 29 D-DAY | back 29 JUNE 6, 1944, DAY THE ALLIES INVADED GERMAN OCCUPIED |
front 30 BATTLE OF THE BULGE | back 30 LAST GERMAN COUNTERATTACK ON THE WESTERN |
front 31 TRUMAN | back 31 FDR'S VICE PRESIDENT WHO BECAME PRESIDENT AFTER FDR |
front 32 ATOMIC BOMB | back 32 A NEW TYPE OF BOMB DEVELOPED AT THE END OF WW II THAT WAS THOUSANDS OF TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY OTHER BOMB. |
front 33 HIROSHIMA | back 33 TRUMAN ORDERED THE ATOMIC BOMB TO BE DROPPED ON |
front 34 NAGASAKI | back 34 WHEN JAPAN REFUSED TO SURRENDER AFTER THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA A SECOND ATOMIC BOMB WAS DROPPED ON THIS JAPANESE CITY ON AUGUST 9, 1945, JAPAN SURRENDERED |
front 35 HIROHITO | back 35 EMPEROR OF JAPAN WHO TOLD HIS PEOPLE TO SURRENDER, |
front 36 BIG THREE | back 36 CHURCHILL (UK), STALIN (USSR), FDR (USA) LEADERS OF |
front 37 YALTA | back 37 MEETING OF BIG THREE IN RUSSIA IN FEB. 1945 TO MAKE PLANS TO
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front 38 POTSDAM | back 38 MEETING OF ALLIED LEADERS IN JULY 1945 THAT DECIDED THE |
front 39 UNITED NATIONS | back 39 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION SET UP AFTER WW II TO STOP FUTURE WARS |
front 40 GENERAL ASSEMBLY U.N. | back 40 EACH NATION HAS ONE VOTE, WHERE THE |
front 41 SECURITY COUNCIL | back 41 U.N.,15 MEMBERS, 5 PERMANENT MEMBERS, U.S., USSR, FRANCE, UK, CHINA, MAIN JOB IS TO KEEP THE PEACE, CAN USE ARMED FORCES |
front 42 VETO POWER | back 42 PERMANENT MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY CAN STOP ANY U.N. |
front 43 SECRETARY GENERAL | back 43 PERSON CHOSEN TO RUN THE U.N. FOR FIVE YEARS |