18.2: Axis Powers Advance

Erwin Rommel

"Desert Fox"-May 1942; German and Italian armies were led by him and attacked British occupied Egypt and the Suez Canal for the second time; were defeated at the Battle of El Alamein; was moved to France to oversee the defenses before D-Day; tried to assassinate Hitler.

Atlantic Charter

1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war

Vichy

City in central France where a puppet state governed unoccupied France and the French colonies

Luftwaffe

German Air Force

Hideki Tojo

Japan's prime minister. ordered attack on pearl harbor

Lend-Lease Act

The laws passed by the U.S. allowing us to give aid to our Allies in early WWII

Blitzkrieg

lightning war

Dunkirk

port in France from which 300,000 Allied troops were evacuated when their retreat by land was cut off by the German advance in 1940