Battles of World War II

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  1. 1. Britain and France join armies and the French troops waited for the Germans to attack and the German troops waited for the French to attack
  2. 3. City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb
  3. 4. Britian forces use radar and light to warn against enemies.
  4. 5. 1942 April, more than 70,000 filipino and americans surrendered to the Japanese
  5. 9. An attack by the Japanese Aircraft to America on December 7, 1941
  6. 11. allied forces invade a small island, Okinawa, 12,000 Americans die fighting over 100,000 Japanese troops.
  7. 13. Japanese and Americans first met in battle together
  8. 14. British, French, Belgian and Dutch Armed forces were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk while being bombed and strafed by the Luftwaffe.
  9. 15. German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture an industrial port
  10. 18. on the swamp-and-jungle-covered island near Australia
  11. 19. code name for the Allied invasion of mainland Europe in WWII
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  1. 2. was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union
  2. 6. World War 2 naval battle fought in the pacific
  3. 7. Battle over this island and runways needed by the U.S. to use in air attacks against Japan.
  4. 8. was the name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa
  5. 10. This war was one of the last before the surrender of Germany.
  6. 12. German term meaning "lightning war", used to describe Germany's novel military tactics in World War II
  7. 16. Where German troops laid siege to the Soviet city of Leningrad until over 1 million civilians would perish during the siege.
  8. 17. The first raid conducted by the U.S against Tokyo in April 1942