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-The agreement permitting Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland
-Chamberlain had gone to Germany twice in September to discuss this event with Hitler -
-Non-aggression pact -Also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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-WWII begins
-"Blitzkreig" strategy -
-Codenamed "Operation Dynamo"
-Evacuation of allied soldiers from the beaches of and harbor of Dunkirk -
-Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks
-Described as the first major campaign fought entirely by air forces -
-Joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
-Provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims -
-Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor
-Lasted two hours, but was devastating -
-Decisive American victory
-Six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -
-The name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa
-The first time the British and Americans had jointly worked on an invasion plan together -
-Major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II
-Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
-Allied invasion of Italy
-Allied victory -
-Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control
-Codenamed Operation Overlord -
-last major German offensive campaign of World War II
-The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard -
-meeting for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization
-goal of conference was to shape a post-war peace -
-major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima
-some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War -
-codenamed Operation Iceberg
-series of battles fought in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands -
-cerebral hemorrhage
-collapsed -
-mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
-marked the end of World War II in Europe -
-mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
-marked the end of World War II in Europe -
-The Big Three
-negotiate terms for the end of World War II -
-dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-killed at least 129,000 people -
-Japan surrendered in World War II
-ending the war
