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D-Day-June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II. Winston Churchill - Prime minister of Great Britain during World War II. Stalingrad - Site of critical World War II Soviet victory that reversed Germanys advance to the East. In late 1942, Russian forces surrounded the Germans, and on Feb. 2, 1943, the German Sixth Army surrendered. First major defeat for the Germans in World War II. Tehran Conference - December, 1943 - A meeting between FDR, Churchill and Stalin in Iran to discuss coordination of military efforts against Germany, they repeated the pledge made in the earlier†¦show more content†¦Francisco Franco and other army leaders staged a coup and installed a right-wing fascist government, touching off a civil war between loyalist Republican forces (aided by Russia) and Francos Fascist party (aided by Mussolini and Hitler). Mussolini (1883-1945) - Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922-1943. Wanted to recreate the Roman Empire. Ethiopia - Mussolini invaded, conquering it in 1936. The League of Nations failed to take any effective action against Mussolini, and the U.S. just looked on. Quarantine Speech - 1937 - In this speech Franklin D. Roosevelt compared Fascist aggression to a contagious disease, saying democracies must unite to quarantine aggressor nations. Munich Conference-1938 - Hitler wanted to annex the Sudetenland, a portion of Czechoslovakia whose inhabitants were mostly German-speaking. On Sept. 29, Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain signed the Munich Pact, which gave Germany the Sudetenland. British Prime Minister Chamberlain justified the pact with the belief that appeasing Germany would prevent war. Invasion of Poland, Blitzkrieg - September, 1939 - Germany used series of lightning campaigns to conquer Poland. The invasion caused Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. Axis and Allied Powers - A series of treaties in 1936 and 37 between Germany, Italy, and Japan created what was called the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis. The countries were thereafter referred to as the Axis Powers. 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