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D-Day

Atomic Bomb

British Tank

Eisenhower

Churchill

noun

June 6, 1944, in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.

noun

English political leader and author of the twentieth century; he became prime minister shortly after World War II began and served through the end of the war in Europe.

Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander

a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity.

a heavy armored fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track.

World War Alphabet

By "Jono" Paras 2/19/16

Social Studies Curda

F

G

H

Flying Tiger

J

Germans

K

I

Hiroshima

Plural Noun

Kamikaze

A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States

Jeep

island hopping

The city was destroyed in World War II when an American airplane dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare (August 6, 1945). The rebuilt city is an important commercial and industrial center. Hiroshima.

The nickname of U.S. fighter pilots, the American Volunteer Group (AVG), who fought against the Japanese in China during World War II.

a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

Leapfrogging, or island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.

four-wheel drive used by the United States Army in World War II

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Mulberry harbor

Normandy

Luftwaffe

Okinawa

Pearl Harbor

Mulberry harbours were temporary portable harbours developed by the British during World War II to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944

The Invasion of Normandy was the invasion by and establishment of Western Allied forces in Normandy, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II; the largest amphibious invasion to ever take place.

Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It was also the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935. Led by Hermann Goering, it became the largest and most powerful in Europe by the start of World War Two.

A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships.

The battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, took place in April-June 1945. It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies.

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Qusling

Stalin

Rommel

Truman

U-boat

popularly known as the Desert Fox, was a German field marshal (German: Generalfeldmarschall) of World War II. He earned the respect of both his own troops and his enemies.

Stalin led the Soviet Union in its costly victory in World War II; the country again lost huge numbers. President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain met with Stalin in 1945 to produce the Yalta agreement.

In 1944, after representing Missouri in the Senate, Truman was elected vice president under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and became president when Roosevelt died. He led the nation in the final months of World War II and made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), Norwegian fascist politician who headed the puppet government during the German occupation of Norway in World War II; shot for treason after German defeat. First used in London Times of April 15, 1940, in a Swedish context.

U-boat, German U-boot, abbreviation of Unterseeboot, U-218From J.P. Mallmann Showell, U-Boats under the Swastika (1987)(“undersea boat”), a German submarine. The destruction of enemy shipping by German U-boats was a spectacular feature of both World Wars I and II.

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Yamamoto

X-craft

World War II

V-1 rocket

was a Japanese Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II until his death.

the vessels were designed to be towed to their intended area of operations by a full-size 'mother' submarine

A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States.

a liquid-fueled rocket used as a ballistic missile by the Germans, mainly against London, late in World War II.

Dedication Page

Sources

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This presentation is dedicated to the victims and their families, of World War I & II

Zhukov

The nationalww2museum.org

Overview of the Pearl harbor attack

Russian marshal

Encyclopedia Britannica

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