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| Dwight D. Eisenhower | An American General who commanded Operation Torch an invasion of Axis controlled North Africa. He continued leading a strong military campaign until V-E Day. He was elected president in 1953. |
| D-Day | A name given to June 6, 1944--the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland during World War II. |
| George Patton | A General who lead his Third army into Paris, liberating it from four years of German occupation. |
| Harry S. Truman | President Roosevelt's moderate running partner, when Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented fourth term. |
| Battle of the Bulge | A month-long battle of World War II, in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war. |
| V-E Day | A name given to May 8, 1945 on which General Eisenhower's acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany marked the end of World War II in Europe. |
| Douglas MacArthur | An American General who held out against 200,000 invading Japanese troops with 80,000 American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula, and the island of Corregidor before being ordererd to abandon the Philippines. |
| Chester Nimtz | An American Admiral famous for organizing the devestating suprise attack agsint the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Midway. |
| Kamikaze | Involving or engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled plane into a military target. |
| Manhattan Project | The U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II. |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | The scientist who lead the secret atomic bomb construction project |
| Hiroshima | The location of the drop of the first atmoic bomb, "Little Boy". |
| Nagasaki | The location of the drop of the second atmoic bomb, "Fat Man". |
| Yalta Conference | A 1945 meeting at which the leaders ofthe United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union agreed on a set of measures to be implemented after the defeat of Germany. |
| United Nations (UN) | An international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development. |
| Nuremberg trials | The court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for their war crimes. |
