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| Bataan Death March | led to the death of 10,000 American and Filipino soldiers who were forced to walk 60 miles with little food or water |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | naval battle that stopped the Japanese advancement toward Australia |
| Battle of Midway | U.S. naval victory that stopped Japan's advancement and proved to be the turning point in the Pacific and allowed us to take the offensive |
| Guadalcanal | First battle in the island hopping campaign in the Pacific |
| Afrika Korps | German troops led by Erwin rommel in North Afrika |
| Battle of El-Alamein | British victory that stopped the German advance toward Egypt and allowed the Allies to take the offensive in North Africa |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Soviet victory that allowed them to take the offensive on the Eastern Front in Europe |
| Operation Overlord (D-day) | code name for the Allied invasion of France at Normandy in June of 1944 |
| Battle of the Bulge | Germany's final offensive on the Western Front that failed to defeat the Allies |
| island hopping | Allied strategy of taking Japanese controlled territory while advancing toward Japan |
| Code Talkers | Native Americans who developed an unbreakable code for communication in the Pacific |
| Battle of the Philippine Sea | Allied naval victory that knocked the Japanese Air Force out of the war |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | Allied naval victory that knocked the Japanese navy out of the war |
| Okinawa | Bloodiest battle of the island hopping campaign in the Pacific that set the stage for the possible invasion of Japan |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots who tried to sink American ships by crashing their planes into them |
| Manhattan Project | code name for the program that researched and built the first atomic bombs |
