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| ten year non aggression pact signed between Stalin of the Soviet Union and Hitler of Germany |
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| “lightning war”; Germany’s new strategy for war involving fast moving airplanes and tanks, followed by massive infantry forces used to take enemy defenders by surprise and quickly overwhelm them |
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| a system of French fortifications along France’s border with Germany |
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| a heavily wooded area in northern France, Luxembourg and Belgium |
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| the capital of the puppet government headed by Marshal Philippe Petain after the German’s took control of the Northern part of France after the French surrendered on June 22nd 1940 |
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| the French general who set up a « government in exile » in London, he also called on the people of France to join him in resisting the German’s |
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| the new British prime minister who declared that his nation would never give into Germany |
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| the title of Germany’s air force |
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| Britain’s Royal Air Force |
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| Began September 7th 1940 and continued until May 10th 1941 |
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| General, Commander of the tank force Afrika Korps that attacked British forces in late March 1941; DESERT FOX |
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