A.P. Euro Chap 29
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- Nazi-Soviet Pact
- treaty between germany and russia. germany trying to avoid two front war. once france fell however, russia mobilized.
- september 1, 1939
- date germany invades poland
- Franco
- leader of spain 1939 until his death in 1975
- eisenhower
- 34th pres. supreme allied commander in europe.
- stalingrad
- considered the turning point of the european theater of the war, the soviets beat the germans but at no msall cost, over 1.5 mill casualties.
- March on Rome
- strike led by mussolini, 30,000 black shirts marched into city from all sides
- el alamain
- battle to stop axis powers in africa.
- guadalcanal, solomon, marshall, iwo jima, guam, okinawa
- sequence of islands hopped.
- may 8, 1945
- date VE day.
- rommel
- also known as the desert fox. leader of the afrika korps.
- Dunkirk
- battle in which british forces tred to help the french but were cut off by the germans, the germans could have fought brittish, but britts. escaped in small boats..
- midway
- major naval battle between america and japan. american won with 1/4 the losses of japan.
- bataan peninsula
- forced march of 100,000 american soldiers by japanses foreces after three monts of fighting. thousands died during the march by gunshot or beheading, others were killed less pleasantly.
- eisenhower, patton, macarthur, bradley
- american generals
- september 2, 1945
- date wwii officially ends, japanese sign on missouri
- october 29, 1929
- date black tuesday
- utah american, omaha american, gold british, sword british, juno canadian
- beaches of normandy
- chamberlain
- was brit. prime minister. but was replaced by Churchill after Hitler broke their peace treaty.
- hindenburg
- a war hero, was elected to be german president when he was 84 and in poor health. the nazis took full advantage of his old age
- de gaulle
- brigadier general in french army. defeated a german attack using only tanks.
- december 7, 1941
- date of pearl harbor
- nuremberg laws
- laws that explained who was german and who wasn't. you needed 4 german g-parents,