10.1 - Origins and Course of the War

Allies
- Great Britain
- France (surrendered)
- China
- Soviet Union
- US
Axis
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
(Second) Battle of El Alamein
- November 1942
- Tied was turned against Axis in Africa
Battle of Midway
- Japanese tried to deliver a knockout blow to American Military
- Americans began retaking pacific islands from Japanese control
Battle of Stalingrad
- August 1942 - February 1943
- Lengthy & Incredibly destructive
Battle of the Bulge (December 1944)
- Last german advance
- Stalled due to exhausted army
Winston Churchill
- UK prime minister during WWII
kamikaze
- Japanese suicide bombe
Munich agreement (1938)
- "Peace in our Time" -Neville Chamberlin
- Germany could annex in Sudetenland
- Appeasement
Operation Barbarossa
- invasion of the Soviet Union
Pearl Harbor
- Japan attacks US base in Hawaii
- December 7, 1941
Rape of Nanjing (Nanking)
- Japanese army engaged in an "orgy of violence" in China city of Nanking
- Looting, rape, murder, other violence