| Question | Answer |
| Japanese victories | Japan was conquering everything in the Pacific, overran everything in Asia |
| December 7 | FDR asked Congress to declare war on Japan |
| December 11 | Germany, Italy declared war on USA |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941, Japan totally bombed our military base |
| December 1941 | Japan pitched the USA into the war b/c the USA held talks to stop Japanese expansion |
| August 1941, FDR and Churchill | Atlantic Charter, pledged to get rid of Nazi |
| 1941 FDR | Lend-Lease Act |
| Siege of Leningrad | Leningrad was seiged by Germans |
| Barbarossa tactics and events | Blitzkrieg by Hitler, caught Stalin uprepped, Russians lost and Nazis were ready to take Moscow and Leningrad, Hitlers forces were not prepped for Russia's winter and froze to death |
| Operation Barbarossa | June 1941, Hitler's biggest mistake, plan to invade the Soviet Union to crush Stalin |
| June 1941 | Failure of the Blitz, British morale was not destroyed, Sea Lion was overall a failure |
| August 12, 1940 | London Blitz, German bombers bombed random cities in england, but London did not break under the Blitz |
| Operation Sea Lion | Hitler's plan to invade England |
| Winston Churchill | Prime minister of England after Chamberlain, anti-communism |
| B_____ and H______ joined teh Axies in 1941 | Bulgaria and Hungary |
| October 1940 | Italian forces invaded Greece but Germans sent reinforcements |
| Hitler sent _____ to help Mussolini in Egypt | Desert Fox, pushed British back |
| September 1940 | Mussolini ordered Italian forces into Egypt |
| June 22, 1940 | Hitler avenged German defeat of 1918, forced French to sign the surrender documents in the same railroad car in which Germany signed treaties after WWI, Germans set up puppet state with capital at Vichy in France |
| Italy declared war on _____ and attacked from the south | France |
| Miracle of Dunkirk | German forces were pouring into France, British sent help to save troops off beaches of Dunkirk and Ostend, managed to rescue troops |
| "Phony War" | French settled behind Maginot Line, Britain sent troops, was quiet time called phony war, then in 1940 Hitler launched blitz against Norway and Denmark |
| What tactic did Hitler use when he invaded Poland? | Blizkrieg |
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