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Explore key events from WWII in Europe from German aggression to Allied victories, including D-Day, Dunkirk evacuation, and the Battle of the Bulge. Learn about leaders like Churchill, Rommel, and De Gaulle.
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Response to German aggression • Appeasement
Commanded German Africa Corps • Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox)
Beat Rommel in Africa • Bernard Montgomery
Soviet Forces stopped the Germans at • Stalingrad
June 6th 1944 • D-DAY
Operation Barbarossa was Hitler's plan to do what • Invade the Soviet Union
Operation Overlord • D-DAY June 6th 1944
A day that will live in Infamy • DEC 7 1941
Largest Amphibious assaultlanded where? • Normandy
Germans pushed the French And British to evacuate by boat • Dunkirk
Who said we will fight on the Beaches, field, streets, never surrender • Winston Churchill
Britian & France Entered the War when Hitler did this • Invaded Poland
German rapid assault tactic still used by the USMC • Blitzkrieg
Hitler signed a non aggression pact with • Soviet Union
Why did France fall so fast • Italy invaded from the south
Air war to stop German Bombers • Battle of Britain
Free trade between USA and Britain • Atlantic Charter
Why was Hitler unsuccessful against Russia • It Was Winter
The Final German Offensive • Battle of the Bulge
The war in Europe ended when • The Allies took Berlin
Kristallnacht • Germans Destroyed Jewish Homes, Businesses and synagogues
Term used to describe the mass genocide of Jews • Holocaust
Jews were put here example Auschwitz • Concentration camps
Leader of France in exile • Charles De Gaulle