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| the home base for America's Pacific Fleet |
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| On a Sunday morning just before 8:00 AM, waves of planes appeared in the sky over Pearl Harbor and swept down on the unprotected American fleet |
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| French port that was brutallly respulsed by Germans when Briain attacked |
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| General Bernard Montgomery |
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| a British General who launched a heavy counteroffensive against the Afrika Korps at El Alamein |
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| where General Montogomery forced back the Germans and inflicted 59,000 casualties |
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| an invasion of Vichy French Northwest Africa |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton |
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| two American generals, Operation Torch began when Anglo-American forces landed at Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers |
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| Japanese-American soldiers were known as this, it means second generation |
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| where Hitler and the Nazis were stopped because the Russians surrounded them |
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| D-day; thousands of American, British, Canadian and Free French troops hit the beaches of Normandy, launching the largest amphibious assault in history |
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| where they invanded for D-Day |
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| where Hitler launched a counterattack, in Luxenbourg and Belgium, he was hoping to advance across the Meusse River and recapture the busy port of Antwerp |
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| the Nazis' last great offensive in the West |
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| three outposts that belonged to the US |
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| General Douglas MacArthur |
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| had been sent to the Philippines to prepare the islands' defenses against future Japanese attack |
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| the fortified island which guarded the entrance to Manila Bay |
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| the American prisoners were forced to walk 70 miles to prison camps, the Japanese shot or bayoneted those prisoners who fell out of the line of march due to hunger, wounds, illness, or fatigue |
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| surrended on Christmas day, 1941 |
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| the "impregnable" fortress in Malaya fell in Feb. 1942 |
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