World War II: The Early Years 

People
Winston Churchill
Henri Petain
Charles de Gaulle
Hermann Goering
Rudolph Hess
Erwin Rommel
Chiang Kai-Shek
Hirohito
Yamamoto
Claire Chenault
Greg "Pappy" Boyington

Vocabulary
Manchuria 
Blitzkrieg 
The "sitzkrieg"
Luftwaffe 
Panzer 
Maginot Line 
HMS Hood
Bismarck 
Miracle of Dunkirk 
Vichy France 
Free French 
Battle of Britain 
Operation Sea Lion 
Ultra
Enigma 
Coventry 
Concentration camps 
Burma Road 
Flying Tigers 
Lend-Lease Act 
Atlantic Charter

Essay Topics
The strategies & objectives of a blitzkrieg 
The involvement of a "neutral" United States