Nazi Soviet Pact, Grand Alliance

• Nazi-Soviet Pact


  1939 agreement between Hitler and Stalin to not attack each other
• Operation Barbarossa


  Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
• Grand Alliance


  Extraordinary alliance between the Soviets and the USA during WWII
• Allies


  Soviets and the West working together against Germany in WWII
• Two Fronts


  Germany forced to fight on both the eastern and western fronts
• Surrounded


  Germany being encircled by its enemies in WWII
• Direction of the War

  The course and outcome of the war changing drastically
• Tide of the War

  The momentum or overall progress of the war shifting