| A | B |
|---|
| Franklin Roosevelt | helped Americans feel better about the Great Depression and WWII through 'fireside chats' |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | WWII American general who led the North African and D-Day campaigns |
| Joseph Stalin | the dictator of Russia; Allies with US and Britain during WWII |
| Battle of Britain | German bombing of London for almost a whole year |
| Battle of the Bulge | the German army's last desperate attempt to push back the Allies in France; failed |
| Emperor Hirohito | young leader who did not stand up to his military generals like he should |
| internment camps | used for holding Japanese-Americans during WWII to prevent spying |
| concentration camps | used during WWII to work, and eventually kill, Jews and other 'undesirables' in Hitler's view |
| Benito Mussolini | leader of Italy who allied with Hitler in the Axis Powers; later hanged by his own people |
| General Tojo | a Japanese general who wanted to expand the Japanese empire at any cost |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister, Allied with US, who led the British people through WWII and helped them stay strong |
| Erwin Rommel | German general who was known as the 'Desert Fox' for his excellent planning and strategies |
| Operation Torch | the Allied attack on North Africa, which succeeded and allowed the Allies to then invade Italy |
| Operation Overlord | the code name for the D-Day invasion |
| Battle of Midway | the major turning point in the Pacific war, where Japan lost 4 aircraft carriers |
| Battle of Bataan | battle in the Philippines where the US was defeated and 10,000 US soldiers were captured |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | huge battle for tiny island; the US won; famous picture taken here |
| Battle of Okinawa | fierce battle for islands very close to Japan; Japanese civilians committed suicide rather than surrender |
| kamikaze | Japanese term for suicide bombers; means 'divine wind' |
| Manhattan Project | code name for the project to build an atomic bomb; led by scientist Robert Oppenheimer |
