| A | B |
|---|
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander of U.S. troops in Asia and the Pacific |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commander of Allied forces in Europe |
| Harry S Truman | successor of FDR; made decision to drop the atomic bomb |
| Fat Man | name given to bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| Winston Churchill | Leader of Britain during WWII |
| VJ Day | Victory in Japan; August 14, 1945 |
| VE Day | Victory in Europe; May 8, 1945 |
| D-Day | Allied invasiion of Normandy, France to regain territory from Germany; June 6, 1944 |
| Operation Overlord | Allied plan to bring troops from England to reclaim France |
| Battle at Stalingrad | turning point of war as Germans never again had success invading the Soviet Union |
| Battle of Midway | turning point in the Pacific as Allies stopped Japan |
| Island hopping | Capturing Japanese held islands and using them as stepping stones to Japan; allied war strategy in the Pacific |
| Fort Ontario, NY | refugee camp for Holocaust survivors |
| Holocaust | systematic slaughter of Jews and other "undesirables" during WWII |
| Nuremberg Laws | stripped Jews of citizenship, right to hold certain jobs, right to obtain education |
| Manhattan Project | code name for building the atomic bomb |
| Potsdam Declaration | message sent to Japan encouraging them to surrender or face total destruction |
| Enola Gay | plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
| United Nations | organization formed after WWII to preserve peace |
| League of Nations | formed after WWI to preserve peace; U.S. never joined |
| Nuremberg Trials | Tried and convicted Nazi leaders who committed crimes against humanity during WWII |
| Bataan Death March | Japan mistreated American and Filipino POWs and made them march 100 miles with little food or water; 10,000 died |
| Nagasaki and Hiroshima | U.S. dropped the A-bomb on these Japanese cities |
| Versailles Treaty | punished Germany severely |
| Adolf Hitler | became chancellor of Germany in 1933 |
| Nazi party | National Socialist Party (Hitler's party) |
| Pearl Harbor | surprise attack by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941; caused U.S. to enter WWII |
| Blitzkrieg | lightning warfare |
| Allied powers | England, France, Russia, China, & the U.S. |
| Axis powers | Italy, Japan, & Germany |
| appeasement | policy of giving in to Hitler in hopes that this would avoid war |
| rationing | sharing and preserving scarce goods so soldiers have plenty |
| Lend-Lease Act | the U.S. gave war supplies to countires in our interest |
