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| "lightning war": German strategy using fast-moving planes & tanks, followed by massive infantry forces, to take the enemy by surprise |
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| How do Germany and Russia divide Poland? |
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| Germany takes western half because highly populated by Germans. Russia takes eastern half, promised from Nazi-Soviet pact. |
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| After taking Poland, _____ attacks Balkans (which are...) |
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| Russia pushed on to Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania |
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| ______ put up stiff but unsuccessful resistance vs. Russia & lost due to Russia's larger army |
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| France and Great Britain declare war on Germany on... |
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| Stand-off between French and British troops against German troops. |
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| the "Phony war", or sitzkrieg ("sitting war") |
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| French and British were on _____ Line, Germans were on ______ Line |
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| Hitler launched blitzkrieg against ______ & _______ |
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| Hitler launched blitzkrieg against Norway & Denmark, who soon fell in... |
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| Hitler began sweep through Holland, Belgium & Luxembourg |
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| Hitler spoke before Reichstag demanding Polish Corridor and port city of Danzig be returned to Germany on... |
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| Stalin and Hitler sign a 10-year nonaggression pact on... |
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| Stalin sent Soviet troops to occupy the eastern half of Poland on... |
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| Stalin sent nearly 1 million Soviety troops into Finland during.... |
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| Finland surrendered to Russia by... |
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| Hitler attacked Holland, Belgium & Luxembourg as part of a strategy to... |
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| after attacking the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Hitler sent force of tanks and troops to go through _______, a heavily wooded area in northeastern France & Luxembourg |
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| after "squeezing between" the Maginot Line by going through the Ardennes, Germans reached France's northern coast in ____ days |
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| Germans trapped Allied forces around northern French city of Lille by ______ |
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| After Germany trapped the forces around Lille, ______ surrendered |
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| After Belgium surrendered to Germany, the Allies escaped to (and were trapped on) the beaches of _______, a French port city on the English Channel |
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| after the Allies were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, __________ sent 850 ships across the English Channel |
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| From _____ to ______, the British's amateur armada sailed back and forth form Britain to Dunkirk, saving 338,000 soldiers |
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| Benito Mussolini joined forces with Hitler and declared war on Great Britain & France on... |
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| After joining forces with Germany, ____ attacked France from the south |
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| by ________, Paris had fallen to the Germans |
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| two days after Paris fell to the Germans, the French parliament asked ______ to become prime minister |
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| France surrendered to Germany on... |
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| Germans took control of ____ France, leaving ____ France to to be a puppet government headed by Pétain |
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| northern France, leaving southern France as a puppet government |
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| the headquarters of southern France's puppet government was in ____ |
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| after France fell, a French general named ________ fled to London and set up a government-in-exile committed to reconquering France |
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| on ______, Charles de Gaulle delivered a broadcast from England, calling on the people of France to resist Germnay |
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| De Gaulle went on to organize the _______ military forces that battled the Nazis |
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| Winston Churchill, the British ________, made a famous speech declaring that the nation should never give in |
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| Hitler's plan to to invade Great Britain was called.... |
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| Germany's air force was called the... |
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| Luftwaffe (meaning air weapon) |
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| at first, Germans targeted British airfields and aircraft factories, then began focusing on cities, especially ______ |
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| on ________, Germany began focusing on bombing cities |
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| two secret weapons, the _____ and the _____ helped Britain hold out against Germany |
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| German code-making machine |
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| in _______, Germans gave up daylight raids in favor of night bombing |
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| many Londoners flocked to _____ when sirens wailed at sunset |
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| the Battle of Britain ended _____ |
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| after Hitler called of attacks on Britain, he focused attention on _________ and the _______ |
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| Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean |
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