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| Lightning warfare used in the invasion of Poland |
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| Germany invades Poland using Blitzkrieg |
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| UK and France declare war on Germany |
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| Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. Were attacked by USSR. |
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| The line on the German-French border where the French sat waiting for the Germans to attack. |
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| A few miles away from the Maginot Line, where the Germans sat waiting for the French to attack. |
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| "Sitting War" title that came about jokingly by the Germans |
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| War was declared but there were no attacks until April 9, 1940. |
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| Hitler attacks Denmark and Norway ending the Phony War |
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| Heavily wooded area covering France, Belgium, and Lumberg. End of Maginot Line in the North. |
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| Germans trap allies around French city of Lille, and the allies escape to the beaches of Dunkirk. |
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| Great Britain saves allies by sending in a fleet of 850 ships across English Canal 338,000 saved. |
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| France surrenders and Paris is declared an open city. |
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| French general who set up a government-in-exile in London and established Free French Military Forces to fight Nazis |
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| Marshal Philippe Petain/ Pierre Laval |
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| Took part in riots, Marshal had a puppet government in Vichy. |
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| New British Prime Minister who said, "Never in the course of human history has so much been owned by so few to so many. This was their finest hour." Was the lord of admiralty. |
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| Roayl Air Force. Britain's air force. |
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| Germans launch an aerial attack on the British home isles |
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| All about breaking ENIGMA and it was broken in Blechley Park in Britain |
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| Developed to help the British army, helped track planes. |
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| Germans begin night bombing and British put up night curtains |
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| Hitler begins a sweep on Belgium and Netherlands to distract the allies. They used Blitzkrieg |
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| King of Belgium, ordered resistance but the people of Belgium resisted anyway, and then forced him to abdicate |
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| Queen of Netherlands, orders resistance and is captured by Germany until Britain rescues her. |
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| Italy attacks Egypt to take the Suez Canal. |
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| Desert warfare, headed by Erwin Rommel who was nicknamed Desert Fox. |
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| Hitler plans Operation Barbarossa, to invade the USSR |
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| sends aid to Britain in the Battle of Britain, was elected 4 times. |
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| Hitler persuades Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary to join the axis powers. |
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| they resist because they have Pro-British leaders. Hitler invades them. Yugoslavia falls in 11 days, Greece surrenders in 17 days. |
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| Hitler's plan to attack the Soviet Union. Early in the morning German tanks and aircraft announced the start |
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| Germany sieges Leningrad and cuts it off from the rest of the Soviet Union. Starves it's inhabitants. Attacks Moscow, Kiev, Ukraine. |
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| Counterattacked, and as the Soviets retreated they burned everything in their path |
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| President could sell/transfer/exchange/lend/lease or dispose of war supplies to any country deemed vital. |
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| Signed by Winston Churchill and FDR and it spells out war aims. Slogan was "get Germany first". Had 8 points. |
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| German U-boat fired on a US destroyer, Roosevelt orders navy to shoot on sight |
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| Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, overran by Japan. |
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| Japan's greatest naval strategist who called for an attack on the naval fleet in Hawaii |
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| Sailors awoke to the roar of explosives. Within 2 hours, they had sunk 19 ships. 2,438 Americans killed. |
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| Countries attacked at the same time as Pearl Harbor: |
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| Hong Kong, Guam, Wake Island. |
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| bombed Tokyo and other cities, with 16 B-25 bombers as revenge for Pearl Harbor. |
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| Internment Camps/Executive Order 9066 |
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| FDR signs executive order, which removed Japs from US and placed them in internment camps. Said that it was to prevent spying. Ended in January 2, 1945. |
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| first gen. straight from Japan. |
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| Issei children born in America. 2nd Generation |
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| "returning to america." born american citizens but were educated in Japan. |
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| Kibei's children who were were very young when incarcerated into the camps. |
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