OFL unit 7 world history

lightning war

Hitler called off his attacks, he focused on the Mediterranean area and the Balkans

the transfer of war supplies including food, machinery and services, to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the United States in World War 1

Roosevelt and Churchill met secretly and issued a joint delaration. It upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government

the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis

deprived Jews of their rights to German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews

dismal, overcrowded, segregated Jewish areas

began on August 23, 1942. went on nightly bombing raids that set much of the city ablaze and reduced the rest to rubble

began on June 6, 1944 British, Anerican, French and Canadian troops fought their way onto a 60-mile stretch of beach in Normandy

Japanese suicide pilots

One was the electronic tracking system known as radar, it could tell the number, speed and direction of incoming war planes. A German made code-making machine named enigma, it enabled the British to decode the Germans secret messages.

American sailors wake to explosives. a Japanese attack was underway. The Japanese had sunk or damaged 19 ships, including 8 battleships. More than 2,300 Americans were killed. It caused many other places like Guam and Wake to fall.

The SS and their collaborations rounded up men, women, children, and even babies and took them to isolated spots

Factories converted their peacetime operations to wartime production and made everything from a machine guns to boots. Automobile factories produced tanks. A typewriter company made armor piercing shells.

The bodies of those executed were burned at the concentration camp Dachau. They were cremated in the same ovens that had burned so many of their victims.

a French general who set up a government-in-exile in London; went on to organize Free French military forces that battled the Nazis until France was liberated in 1944

British Prime Minister who declared that Britain would never give in to the Axis Powers

known as the "Desert Fox," this German general commanded the Afrika Korps, an elite German tank force, to assist the Italians in Africa

the commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific

under his command, 16 B-25 bombers to bomb Tokyo and several other Japanese cities

a Jewish youth from Germany who shot a German diplomat living in Paris out of revenge for his father's deportation to Poland

an American General who led Allied forces into Morocco and Algeria during Operation Torch

Germanic people's who were considered by the Nazis to be the "master race"

Japanese suicide pilots