The good guys (Britain, Soviet Union, U.S.) & the bad guys (Germany, Italy, Japan) of World War II.

In June 1944; the largest amphibious military landing in history; U.S., British, & Canadian troops invaded the Nazi-held beaches of France.

War fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. The Nationalists won; Franco ruled 36 years.

The Nazi program of systematic extermination of European Jews, resulting in the murder of 6 million, 2/3 of Europe’s Jews.

It connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. got the canal zone & built the canal after a revolution against Colombia.

The good guys (Britain, France, Russia, U.S.) & the bad guys (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire) of World War I.

The successful massive invasion of German-held northern Africa by the U.S. & Britain in late 1942.

Multi-party war fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army; the Red Army which won the war.

New British invention of the 1940s that detected incoming aircraft.

German submarines that controlled the open Atlantic Ocean in World War I.

Radical fascist political party in Germany that was nationalistic, imperialistic, and racist.

The massive 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union in an attempt to exterminate the Russian population.

Major armed struggle; it changed from a revolt against established order to multi-sided civil war. The U.S. became involved.

Germany’s new lightning form of war that emphasized speed and size in World War II.

German bombing planes vs. British fighter planes in 1940-41.

World representative peace keeping organization formed after World War I. It would be a failure because the U.S. never joined it.

Germany’s never-used plan to invade the British mainland.

The Japanese defeated the Russians on land and at sea. It was unexpected. It transformed the balance of power in East Asia.

The 1938 night when Nazi gangs destroyed Jewish property in Germany.

Russian mystic who negatively influenced and helped to discredit the tsar, leading to the fall of the Romanov dynasty, in 1917.

Agreements were signed here that prevented an arms race and kept peace in the Pacific during the 1920s.

Japan invaded this Chinese province in 1931. Many view this as the first step toward World War II.

War fought from 1899–1902 by the British against the Afrikaners of two independent republics. The British eventually won.

The annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938.

Miracle saving of thousands of Br. & Fr. troops from the Fr. shoreline where they were pinned by the Nazis in 1940.