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  1. conflict that developed right after WW2 between the US and the USSR
    Cold war
  2. Country Hitler invaded to start WWII
    Poland
  3. Union of Germany and Austria
    Anschluss
  4. The creation of the United Nations was a major American concern at this conference
    Yalto
  5. Name of the German operation to invade Great Britian
    Sealion
  6. Considered the turning point in the European phase of WWII
    Stalingrad
  7. U.S. aircraft carier damaged at the Battle of Midway
    Yorktown
  8. Special strike forces given the job of acgting as mobile killing units for the SS
    Einsatzgruppen
  9. type of plane George Gay flew
    torpedo
  10. site of the dropping of the first atomic bomb
    Hiroshima
  11. British ship sank by a german torpedo killing 77 children
    grandorastar
  12. Beaches in France where the Allies attacked on June 6, 1944
    Normany
  13. Defense structure built by the French along their border with Germany
    maginotline
  14. How many Japanese midget submarines were used in the attack on Pearl Harbor?
    Five ( 5 )
  15. What the Japnese renamed Manchuria
    Manchukuo
  16. German airforce
    Luftwaffa
  17. The United Staes, Great Britian, and the Soviet Union
    Big three
  18. 338,000 allied troops had to be rescued from here early in the year
    Dinkirk
  19. First German city to be attacked by 1000 bombers
    cologne
  20. people who assistd the enemy
    collaborators
  21. Japanese aircraft carier involved in the attck on Midway Island
    kool
  22. Soviet city under seige for 900 days
    Leningrad
  23. Area in Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted because it was inhabited largely by Germans
    Sudetenland
  24. Considered the turning point in the Pacific phase of WWII
    Midway
  25. Japan launched an attack on the U.S. here on December 7, 1941
    Pearl Harbor
  26. Suicide pilots used by the Japanese towards the end of the war
    Kamikazi
  27. Policy of giving into the demands of someone to keep the peace
    appeasement
  28. Hitler sent troops into this demilitarized area before WWII
    Rhine Land
  29. Name of the mass slaughter of European Jews
    Holacaust
  30. Restrictions intended to enforce international law
    sanctions
  31. conference where the allied leaders agree to have trials for leaders who had committed war crimes
    Postdam
  32. term meaning "lightning war"
    blitzkirge
  33. Largest extermination center the Germans set up in Poland
    Auchwitz

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