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Allied amphibious invasion, taking place in Normandy France
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D-Day
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German troops invade a European country, officially starting WW2
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Invasion of Poland
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Japanese planes bomb an American naval base, leading to the U.S joining WW2
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Pearl Harbor
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Allied airborne operation in the Netherlands
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Battle of Arnhem/Market Garden
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North American country joins the war to aid the U.S in the pacific theatre
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Mexico
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A desert battle in North Africa involving the British, Anzacs, and various Axis soldiers
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The Battle of El Alamein
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Germany invades a Scandinavian country, resulting in a massive resistance movement
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Denmark
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German general in North Africa, known as the “Desert Fox”
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Erwin Rommel
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British prime minster for majority of the war
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Winston Churchill
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Germanys invasion of the USSR
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Operation Barbarossa
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Conflict involving the USSR and Finland
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The Winter War
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U.S president through most of WW2
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FDR
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The German Fuhrer
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Adolf Hitler
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Main Axis powers
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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Main Allied powers
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America, France, UK, USSR/Soviet Union, China
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German war tactic meaning “lightning war”
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Blitzkrieg
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Japanese war tactic involving suicide bomber pilots
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Kamikaze
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima japan
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Little Boy
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Amphibious invasion in Salerno Italy
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Operation Avalanche
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Main German army
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Wehrmacht
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German secret police
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Gestapo
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Soviet secret police
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NKVD
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British special forces unit
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SAS
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The year WW2 started
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1939
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The year WW2 ended
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1945
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South American country where German war criminals fled to
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Argentina
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German militia group made up of old men and young children
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Volkssturm
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German bomber known for its “Jericho Trumpets”
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Stuka
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U.S heavy bomber nicknamed the “Flying Fortress”
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B-17
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Major battle taking place in the Ardennes Forest
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Battle of the Bulge
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Soviet offensive leading to the Fall of Berlin
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Battle of Berlin
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Famous Soviet leader, known as the most decorated man of WW2
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Marshal Zhukov
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Soviet dictator
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Joseph Stalin
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Finnish sniper known as the “White Death”
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Simo Hayha
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Italian fascist dictator
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Benito Mussolini
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The genocide of the Jewish people during WW2
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The Holocaust
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U.S airborne division known as the “screaming eagles”
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101st airborne
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Famous German tank, feared by the allies
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Tiger
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Spain famously did not participate in WW2 on account of the
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Spanish Civil War
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Failed allied operation, resulting in a mass evacuation
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Dunkirk Evacuation
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Massive naval and aerial battle in the Pacific Theatre
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Battle of Midway
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USMC and USN beach landing, iconic American photo taken involving a raised flag
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Major battle in Italy also known as the Battle for Rome
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Battle of Monte Casino
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Battle in The Solomon Islands, resulting in the allies capturing a Japanese airfield
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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Church where a soldiers parachute famously got caught in the church steeple
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Saint Mere Eglise
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Famous man credited for creating the atomic bomb
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Robert Oppenheimer
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Leader of the Free French Movement
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Charles De Gaulle
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Deadly Soviet sniper, notably featured in the terrible movie “Enemy At The Gates”
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Vasily Zaitsev
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The deadliest battle of WW2, common deaths related to extreme cold
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Hitlers elite guard
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The SS
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The leader of the SS
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Heinrich Himmler
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Supreme Allied Commander, future president
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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British officer/war hero, known as the “Spartan General”
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Bernard Montgomery
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Vital Allied battle, capturing the bridge that crosses the Rhine River
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Battle of Remagen
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Famous U.S tank named after a famous Civil War General
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Sherman
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Battle taking place in Ukraine, heavy losses
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Battle of Kiev
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The famous spiked traps, set up to catch tanks during D-Day
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Hedgehog trap
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Hergé created a popular Belgian comic, rumored to be a Nazi sympathizer
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Tin Tin
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German troops stationed in North Africa
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Afrika Korps
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Infamous Japanese war tactic, involving large groups charging with bayonets
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Banzai Charge
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German Air Force
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Luftwaffe
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Hitler allegedly died in his
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Bunker
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Hitler often vacationed in his home in
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Bavaria
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