WWII Battles Vocab Activity

Meaning lightning war or an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory

• Stalingrad

• Blitzkrieg

• Luftwaffe

• Dunkirk

a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany and force them to move around the fortifications.

• Maginot Line

• Beachhead

• Dunkirk

• Blitzkreig

As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front, this was the site of the defense and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain from 26 May to 4 June 1940

• Stalingrad

• Dunkirk

• Battle of the Bulge

• Pearl Harbor

Though officially independent, this authoritarian, xenophobic, antisemitic, corporatist and traditionalist regime adopted a policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany after their country was overrun in 1940

• Dunkirk

• Vichy France

• Puppet State

• Stalingrad

A series of acts passed by the US Congress in the 1930s in response to the growing threats and wars that led to World War II. They sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.

• The Maginot Line

• The Grand Alliance

• The Atlantic Charter

• The Neutrality Acts

a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

• Blitzkrieg

• Winston Churchill

• Neville Chamberlain

• Dunkirk

the aerial-warfare branch of the German military before and during World War II.

• Stalingrad

• Luftwaffe

• Blitzkrieg

• Beachhead

a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II.

• The Grand Alliance

• The Atlantic Charter

• The Neutrality Acts

• The Maginot Line

a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city. Marked a major turning point in the war.

• Pearl Harbor

• The Battle of the Bulge

• Stalingrad

• Dunkirk

a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base in Honolulu

• Operation Torch

• Dunkirk

• Pearl Harbor

• Stalingrad