APUSH - Period 7 Frame 9 Vocab

American and Filipino prisoners of war in the Philippines

Aircraft carrier battle between US and Japan that stopped Japanese expansion to Australia

Aircraft carrier battle between US and Japan where 4 Japanese carriers were sunk

Strategy used by US to get as close as possible to mainland Japan for an invasion

US battle to control this island to prevent against a Japanese invasion of Australia

Policy by Germans to weaken the allies and cutting off supply lines

FDR order against German attack in the Atlantic Ocean

Lightening War which relied on surprise and included the Luftwaffe, panzers and infantry

German bombing of Great Britain

German invasion of Russia and included battle of moscow, stalingrad and leningrad

North African campaign of allies invading axis powers

Meeting of US and British establishing the unconditional surrender of the Axis Power, war crimes to be prosecuted and plans to attack Italy

Italian campaign where Allied invade Axis Powers

1 st meeting of Big 3: FDR, Churchill and Stalin where they decided on an invasion of France and appointed Eisenhower of Supreme Allied Commander responsible for D-Day

D-Day Allied invasion of France on the beaches of Normandy

Last offensive by Hitler who launches an armored attack by invading Belgium but ultimately runs out of gas