Ch19terms/places

conflict that developed right after WW2 between the US and the USSR

Country Hitler invaded to start WWII

Union of Germany and Austria

The creation of the United Nations was a major American concern at this conference

Name of the German operation to invade Great Britian

Considered the turning point in the European phase of WWII

U.S. aircraft carier damaged at the Battle of Midway

Special strike forces given the job of acgting as mobile killing units for the SS

type of plane George Gay flew

site of the dropping of the first atomic bomb

British ship sank by a german torpedo killing 77 children

Beaches in France where the Allies attacked on June 6, 1944

Defense structure built by the French along their border with Germany

How many Japanese midget submarines were used in the attack on Pearl Harbor?

What the Japnese renamed Manchuria

German airforce

The United Staes, Great Britian, and the Soviet Union

338,000 allied troops had to be rescued from here early in the year

First German city to be attacked by 1000 bombers

people who assistd the enemy

Japanese aircraft carier involved in the attck on Midway Island

Soviet city under seige for 900 days

Area in Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted because it was inhabited largely by Germans

Considered the turning point in the Pacific phase of WWII

Japan launched an attack on the U.S. here on December 7, 1941

Suicide pilots used by the Japanese towards the end of the war

Policy of giving into the demands of someone to keep the peace

Hitler sent troops into this demilitarized area before WWII

Name of the mass slaughter of European Jews

Restrictions intended to enforce international law

conference where the allied leaders agree to have trials for leaders who had committed war crimes

term meaning "lightning war"

Largest extermination center the Germans set up in Poland