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Anschiuss of austria
hitler was ready to engineer the union of austria and germany , austria refused hitler sent troops to "reserve order ". -
munich conference
french leaders again choose appeasement -
Nazi -Soviet Union
agreement between hitler and stalin to keep peace between each country -
Blitzreg
hitler orders a " lighting war " or constan bombing on norway and belgium -
Operation sea lion
hitler invades britin -
Operation barbarossa
hitler breaks nazi soviet pact and invades soviet union to take over thier vast natural resources -
peral harbor
suprise attack on american soil , killed 24,000 people , and the reason the u.s. entered wwII -
island hopping
a goal of the u.s to defeat japanese one island at a time . and allowed them to move north -
Big 3
for winston churchill and joseph stalin meet and decide to forst front war in eurpoe and then in the pacific ( japanese ) -
yalta conference
the big three decided to figh japan within three months of germany surrendering -
D-Day Assult
allies launched a suprise invasion of normandy in france . largest amphibious or land and water invasion in hhistory -
V-E day
victory in europe day after germany surrendered offical;y the war in europe ended . -
mahhattan project
project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
A- bomb
short term for atomic bomb . nuclear weapon used during world war II -
United nations
ingovernment organization established october 24 1945 to promote internation co-operations -
truman doctrine
United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
marshall plan
a plan that united stated funneled food and economic assistance to europe to help rebuild buillions of dollars worht of war shattered damages . -
NATO
(north atlantic treaty organization) military alliance formed by united states , canada , and ten other countires -
WarSaw Pact
soviet union created its own military alliance included soviet union and seven eastern europe satellites in europe .
