Study Terms--WW II & Chapter 31 (cont'd).

The Second World War:

The European Theatre
Invasion of Poland
The Fall of France
blitzkrieg
Vichy
Marshal Philippe Petain
Fascism
The Allies
Charles de Gaulle (Free French)
Winston Churchill (Battle of Britain)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Pearl Harbor)
The Second Front
North Africa
Erwin Rommel
George S. Patton
Stalingrad/Moscow/Leningrad
Nazi Defeat in Russia
D-Day
6 June 1944/Normandy
Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau & The Holocaust

The Pacific Theatre
Japan
Asian and Pacific Empire
Pearl Harbor
7 December 1941
Battle of Midway
Guadalcanal
Douglas MacArthur
“Island Hopping”
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
The (Planned) Invasion of Japan
The Firebombing of Tokyo
Robert McNamara
Hiroshima/Nagasaki

The Descent of the Iron Curtain and the Rise of the Cold War
Yalta Conference (The United Nations)
The Bi-Polar World
Cold War Disaffections
Potsdam Conference, Failure, and the “Iron Curtain”
Winston Churchill
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Harry S. Truman vs. Joseph Stalin