9.2 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.

Blitzkrieg

"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

Dunkirk

A city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire.

Atlantic Charter

British and American statement of goals for fighting World War II

Vichy

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

Luftwaffe

German Air Force

Hideki Tojo

Prime minister of Japan during World War II

Lend-Lease Act

allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S