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Chinese Nationalist capital city that was brutally sacked in 1937
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Nanking
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German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted
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Sudetenland
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Site of consequential 1938 conference
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Munich
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"Free" international city on the Baltic that Hitler claimed in 1939
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Danzig
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Norwegian port controlling the flow of Swedish iron ore where both British and German forces landed
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Narvik
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Site of mass execution of Polish officers by the Soviets
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Katyn Wood
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Original French Army Commander in Chief
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Maurice Gamelin
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His replacement
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Maxime Weygand
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Fort that was keystone of Belgian defence strategy
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Eben Emael
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Town of German breakthrough in the Ardennes in May 1940
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Sedan
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Town where the Germans first reached the English Channel in 1940
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Abbeville
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British Admiral in charge of the Mediterranean fleet at Alexandria
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A.B.C. Cunningham
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Commander of the RAF's Fighter Command in 1940
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Hugh Dowding
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Site of British attack on the French navy in 1940
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Mers-El-Kebir
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British carrier that the Taranto raid was launched from
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HMS Illustrious
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Where the majority of the Italian fleet was moved to after the raid
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Naples
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Names of the three original Gloster Gladiator biplanes stationed on Malta
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Faith, Hope, and Charity
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British carrier sunk by a U-Boat in 1941
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HMS Ark Royal
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Egyptian village where the original Italian advance in North Africa was repelled
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Sidi Barrani
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British battlecruiser sunk while pursuing the Bismarck
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HMS Hood
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Greek island invaded by paratroopers following the evacuation of the mainland by British and ANZAC troops
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Crete
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Site of huge Soviet military base on the Crimean Peninsula
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Sevastopol
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First U.S. ship lost to enemy action in WWII (Hint: before Pearl Harbor)
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USS Reuben James
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Territory occupied by Japan that precipitated US embargoes
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French Indochina
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Admiral Nagumo's flagship for the Pearl Harbor raid
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Akagi
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U.S. battleship that capsized during the raid
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USS Oklahoma
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U.S. carrier sunk in the Battle of Coral Sea
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USS Lexington
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Japanese light carrier sunk in the same battle
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Shoho
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Last U.S. holdout in the Philippines before surrender
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Corregidor
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The Japanese diversion for the Midway operation was concentrated on this island chain
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Aleutians
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Northern Australian city bombed by the Japanese
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Darwin
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Name of General Montgomery's army at El Alamein
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8th
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Codename of German operation towards the Caucasus
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Blue
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City on the Volga river where the operation stalled
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Stalingrad
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Site of disastrous Canadian raid in France
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Dieppe
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Port where the majority of the French fleet was scuttled in 1942
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Toulon
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General Hitler promoted to Field Marshal in the hopes of him committing suicide (It didn't work)
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Friedrich Paulus
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What German army Paulus commanded (at Stalingrad)
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6th
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Island Admiral Yamammoto was killed over
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Bougainville
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Island of the largest amphibious invasion in history
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Sicily
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Site of amphibious landing designed to bypass the Gustav line (it didn't really work)
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Anzio
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D-Day beach that was closest to Cherbourg
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Utah
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U.S. escort carrier that was the first victim of a kamikaze attack
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USS St. Lo
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First Allied power to liberate Paris
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France
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Allied General who proposed Operation Market Garden
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Bernard Montgomery
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U.S. General who led the return to the Philippines
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Douglas MacArthur
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The Admiral who wanted to invade Formosa instead
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Ernest King
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Codename of huge Soviet offensive through Belarus and into Poland in 1944
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Bagration
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Name of militia Hitler created in Germany's final months
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Volkssturm
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U.S. General who favored a drive on Vienna
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George Patton
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Name of Admiral who took power in Germany after Hitler's death
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Karl Donitz
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Name of B-29 that dropped the second atom bomb
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Bock's Car
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U.S. battleship where the Japanese surrender formally took place
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USS Missouri
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