Ch. 29
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- Brown Shirts
- Hitler's first power gang, used for intimidation
- Beaches of Normandy
- Gold, Sword, Juno, Utah, Omaha
- Teheran
- First Meeting of big 3
- December 7, 1941
- Pearl Harbor, "A day that will live in infamy"
- Potsdam
- Big 3, sans Roosevelt, last meeting
- Midway
- Where Americans sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers
- Blitzkrieg
- "lightning war", bombard and race through
- Goring
- Leader of the Luftwaffe
- Battle of the Bulge
- Last German Offensive
- June 6, 1944
- D Day
- Mussolini
- Italian Dictator
- Dunkirk
- Blitzkrieg through Belgium, trapping France and isolating Britain
- Maginot Line
- French fortification
- October 29, 1929
- Black Tuesday, when stock markets crashed
- Chamberlain
- Gullible Prime Minister, before Churchill (the one and only)
- Hindenburg
- Chancellor who allowed Hitler to gain power in 1933
- de Gaulle
- Leader of "Free France"
- Beer Hall Putsch and Mein Kampf
- First failed attempt by Hitler, his anti-semitic book
- SS
- Hitler's personal body guards, sick dudes
- Bataan
- Forced march of American soldiers by the Japanese
- Eisenhower
- General at Normandy Beach, leaded of Allied forces
- Siegfried Line
- German fortification
- Nagasaki
- Second atomic bomb, 40-70,000 instantly killed
- US Generals
- Eisenhower, Patton, Macarthur, Bradley
- Franco
- Spanish General and dictator
- Yalta
- Second meeting of big 3
- Vichy France
- Puppet France, Petain
- March on Rome
- October 1922, Mussolini marches on Viktor Emmanuel III for power
- Hiroshima
- First Atomic bomb, 70,000 instantly killed
- Allied Invasion
- D Day and all that
- Nuremberg Laws
- Anti-Semitic laws issued by the Nazis
- Rommel
- Desert Fox
- Nazi
- National Socialist German Workers' Party
- September 2, 1945
- VJ Day
- El Alamein
- African Ally victory over Rommel and combined German/Italian forces
- Stalingrad
- Russian turning point in the war, Enemy at the Gates
- Gestapo
- Secret police, killed political enemies and all that
- September 1, 1939
- Invasion of Poland, start of WWII
- Himmler
- Leader of SS
- Number's of WWII
- 15 million military, 11 million civilians, 6 million Jews
- Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
- Between Hitler and Stalin, they wouldn't interfere with each other
- May 8, 1945
- VE Day
- Goebbels
- Leader of propaganda and proponent of Final Solution
- Order
- Guadalcanal, Solomon, Marshall Islands, Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
- Rommel
- the Desert Fox
- Mengele
- Sick German Doctor who experiment on twins
- Japan and Manchuria
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Battle of Britain
- Air raid of Britain by the Germans