| A | B |
|---|
| Hitler | fascist leader of Germany |
| Mussolini | fascist leader of Italy |
| Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain |
| Stalin | Leader of USSR |
| Franklin Roosevelt | President of the U.S. |
| Tuskegee Airmen | African American pilots |
| ration books | coupons limiting the amount of products that civilians could use |
| D-Day | invasion of Normandy, France |
| Okinawa | island in the Pacific that cost Americans significant losses |
| Truman | made decision to drop atomic bomb |
| Auschwitz | Nazi death camp |
| Battaan | location of Phillipines Death March |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide plane |
| Indianapolis | sunk in the Pacific Ocean 1945 |
| Africa | first opportunity for American forces to attack Germans |
| Axis Powers | Japan, Italy, Germany |
| Big Three | U.S., Great Britian, Russia |
| Hiroshima | city where Little Boy was dropped |
| Nagasaki | city where Fat Man was dropped |
| Manhattan | code name for atomic bomb |
| Pearl Harbor | attacked December 7, 1941 |
| Schindler | saved the lives of many Jews |
| Rommel | German General defeated in Africa |
| Einstein | scientist who proposed the idea of atomic energy |
| MacCarthur | general who left the Philippines , claimed "I shall return" |
| Manchuria | invaded by Japan in 1931 |
| Poland | invaded by Germany 1939 |
| Rosie the Riveter | propaganda to encourage women to contribute to the war effort |
| Blitzkreig | lightening war |
| Mein Kampf | My Struggle - by A. Hitler |
| Maginot Line | defenisve line built by French before World War II |
| Lend Lease Act | allowed Great Britain to "borrow" weapons from the U.S. |
| Eisenhower | Allied Commander in Europe |
| Yalta | location of meeting to make plans to end war |
| Ethiopia | invaded by Italy |
| Operation Overlord | Allied Invasion of Europe (D-Day) |
| Patton | commander of a phantom army which was a decoy during Operation Overlord |
| Night of Broken Glass | Kristalnacht - beginning of the Holocaust |
| Leningrad | unsuccesful seige by the Germans |
| Sicily | taken byt eh Allies after the African campaign ended |
| Midway | important battle that ended the expansion of Japanese in the Pacific |
