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| Douglas MacArthur | US general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific |
| ghettos | city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live |
| Battle of the Bulge | a 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of WWII |
| Erwin Rommel | German general who led troops in North Africa |
| concentration camps | camp where enemies of the government and other people are held against thier will, often under brutal conditions |
| Bernard Montgomery | British general who drove the Germans out of Egypt |
| nonaggression pact | an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another |
| Winston Churchill | Leader of Britain |
| Pearl Harbor | Navy base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese |
| Atlantic Charter | a declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by Winston Churchill and FDR, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of WWII was based |
| Nuremberg Trials | a series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany after WWII, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war and crimes against humanity |
| "Final Solution" | Hitler's plan to kill as many Jews as possible |
| Battle of Midway | 1942 sea and air battle of WWII, in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the Central Pacific |
| blitzkrieg | "lightning war"-a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving ariplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | a 1942-1943 battle of WWII, in which Allied troops drove Japanese forces from the Pacific island of Guadalcanal |
| Charles de Gaulle | leader of the French government-in-exile |
| Battle of Stalingrad | a 1942-1943 battle of WWII, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American general who helped drive the Germans out of Africa |
| Holocaust | a mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during WWII |
| Kristallnacht | "night of broken glass"-Night of Nov. 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them |
| D-day | June 6, 1944-the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during WWII |
| Battle of Britain | a series of battles between German and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941 |
| demilitarization | a reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons |
| genocide | the systematic killing of an entire people |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | Japanese admiral who decided that the US fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed |
| aryans | to the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a "master race" |
