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military bases, factories, supply depots

• targets of Allied bombing raids against Germany

• causes of WWII

• targets of insurrections during WWII

• used to defeat the Allied Powers at the end of WWII

Victory in Europe Day

• V-E Day

• V-J Day

• Veterans Day

• Victory in El Alamein Day

the name of the decoy army meant to convince Germany the allies would invade France north of Normandy

• Operation Fortitude

• Operation Overlord

• Operation Valkyrie

• Manhattan Project

considered the turning point in the Eastern Front of WWII

• Stalingrad

• D-Day

• El Alamein

• Pearl Harbor

American General who helped defeat the Axis Powers in North Africa

• Eisnehower

• Patton

• Roosevelt

• MacArthur

British General who stopped Italian advances in North Africa

• Montgomery

• Churchill

• Eisenhower

• Blair

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

• event that brought the US into WWII

• the event that brought the USSR into the war against the Axis Powers

• the event that forced the Italians to surrender

• the event that forced the Nazis to surrender

place where large amounts of food or equipment is stored

• supply depots

• consignment shops

• decoy shops

• interment camps

the last German offensive on the Western Front, an unsuccessful attempt to divide the Allied forces and prevent an invasion of Germany. The “bulge” refers to the wedge that the Germans drove into the Allied lines.

• Battle of the Bulge

• Battle of Stalingrad

• D-Day

• Battle of El Alamein

to set free (in war) from a conquering army

• liberate

• emancipate

• indoctrinate

• incarcerate