front 1 VE Day | back 1 “Victory in Europe” |
front 2 Third Reich | back 2 What Hitler called his German Empire |
front 3 Blitzkrieg | back 3 “Lightning War” |
front 4 Axis Powers | back 4 Germany, Italy, Japan |
front 5 Dunkirk | back 5 Where Britain evacuated its people from France, “Miracle” |
front 6 VJ Day | back 6 “Victory over Japan” |
front 7 Munich Conference | back 7 Western allies decided to give Sudetenland to Germany to avoid war, “Peace in our Lifetime” |
front 8 Appeasement | back 8 Giving in to the demands of a dictator to avoid war |
front 9 Battle of Britain | back 9 Air war over Britain that would decide Britain’s fate |
front 10 Stalingrad | back 10 Turning point in World war II; German 6th Army destroyed by Soviet Union over a city’s name |
front 11 Allied Powers | back 11 Britain, France, United States, Soviet Union |
front 12 Operation Barbarossa | back 12 Code name for German invasion of Soviet Union |
front 13 D Day | back 13 Where Allies invaded France to take it back from Germany; Normandy |
front 14 Phony War | back 14 Period after war started when Germany and Allies were at war but no one attacked “Sitzkrieg” |
front 15 Winston Churchill | back 15 British Prime minister during WWII who vowed to never give up, never surrender |
front 16 Nonaggression Pact | back 16 Where Germany and Soviet Union agree to not attack each other for 10 years |
front 17 Nuremberg War Trials | back 17 Where Britain/US tried Nazi war criminals |
front 18 Isolationism | back 18 Not participating in global affairs |
front 19 Neville Chamberlain | back 19 British Prime Minister who advocated appeasement |
front 20 Hiroshima | back 20 Japanese city where US dropped first atom bomb |