World War 2 Events Review

Accepting demands of an aggressor in order to avoid conflict

• Appeasement
• Operation Barbarossa (1941)
• The Holocaust
• Invasion of Italy (1943)

US President during World War 2. Only President to be elected 4x, Died in office of natural causes.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
• Codebreaking
• Yalta Conference
• Siege of Leningrad

series of air strikes on Britain by Germany from August to November of 1940 in an attempt to gain air supremacy.

• Battle of Britain (1940)
• Battle of Midway
• Harry Truman
• D-Day

Sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1941

• Blitz
• Island Hopping
• Battle of Berlin (1945)
• Liberation of Paris (1944)

German invasion of Russia. This caused a two front war for Germany and led to their downfall.

• Operation Barbarossa (1941)
• Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)
• Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1945)
• Battle of the Bulge (1944)

British intelligence cracked Germany's code to the Allies advantage, they figured out where German submarines were

• Codebreaking
• Invasion of Italy (1943)
• Fire Bombing of Tokyo
• The Holocaust

1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, ended the Japanese superiority in the Pacific

• Battle of Midway
• Siege of Leningrad
• Manhattan Project
• Yalta Conference

strategy of Allies in World War 2 of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others

• Island Hopping
• D-Day
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Harry Truman

Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II. Germany's defeat allowed Soviet forces to push into Europe

• Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)
• Liberation of Paris (1944)
• Appeasement
• Battle of Berlin (1945)

Allied Powers took Italy and forced their surrender. Italians overthrew their dictator Mussolini and forced the Germans into Italy

• Invasion of Italy (1943)
• Battle of the Bulge (1944)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
• Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1945)