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| German ______ dive bombers destroyed the weak Polish air force on the ground |
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| a fast, heavy assault by motorized forces and air power, also known as "lightning war" |
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| a traitor, that installed the as the head of the Nazi puppet government |
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| French troops who had assembled in northern France to block the Nazi advance were soon pushed to the coast of little _________ on the English Channel |
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| this was British, they held off the Germans just long enough for hundreds of British vessels of all kinds, both military and civilian, to ferry more than 300,000 British and French soldiers across the channel to safety in England |
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| a WWI hero, came to power in the French government and asked Hitler for an armistice, which he agreed to at the time |
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| France all fell to surrender under the Nazis except this small zone in southern France |
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| the French organized this when they had escaped to Great Britain |
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| General Charles de Gaulle |
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| leader of the Free French governmnent |
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| Hitler made plans to invade and conquer Great Britain |
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| Germany's mighty air force |
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| became Prime Minister of Great Britain during the war |
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| Hitler hurled his bombers against England beginning this ________ |
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| the RAF turned the tables with this invention |
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| warships designed to meet the size limitations imposed of Germany's navy by the Treaty of Versailles |
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| Field Marshall, known as the "Desert Fox," reconquered all of the territories lost by the Italians to the British and began to menace Egypt anew |
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| Congrass passed this to continue the terms of the earlier legislation and adopted the important "cash and carry" principle for dealing with warring nations |
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| Congrass passed this which granted the President sweeping powers to sell, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of war materials to any nation whose defense he felt to be vital to American security |
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| Japan sank this American gunboat on the Yangtze river, making it clear that Japan would not permit the US to stand in the way of Asian conquest and domination |
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