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a. | Battle of El
Alamein | f. | Battle of
Stalingrad | b. | Lend Lease Act | g. | Battle of Midway | c. | Pearl
Harbor | h. | Operation
Overlord | d. | Internment Camps | i. | Holocaust | e. | Luftwaffe | j. | Hiroshima | | | | |
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Law
passed by Congress that allowed the president to “sell, lease, lend, or dispose of weapons”
to the allied powers.
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2.
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Camps
that Japanese-Americans were held captive in at the orders of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Turning point of the fighting between Germany and Russia and a massive battle centered
around Russia’s major industrial center.
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Harbor that was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941
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Battle between American and British troops and Germany in Africa; Turning point of
North African Campaign
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Turning point of the fighting in the Pacific between Japan and the U.S.
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7.
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The
ordeal of Jews during World War II when Hitler rounded them up and eventually killed over 6 million
innocents.
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8.
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The
first Japanese city that the United States dropped the A-Bomb on.
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Code
name for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. Was the largest amphibious attack in
history.
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10.
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The
German Air Force
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a. | Dresden | d. | Pacific
Theater | b. | Battle of the Bulge | e. | Operation Barbarossa | c. | Nagasaki | | | | |
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An
east-central German city on the Elbe River that the United States firebombed.
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12.
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City
that the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on.
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Desperate attempt by Hitler to turn the tide of the war in his favor. Was the
turning point in the Allied victory in Europe
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The
code name for the sneak attack on the USSR on June 22, 1941.
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Theater of operation in World War II in which Japan and the United States
fought.
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