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| Pearl Harbor | U.S. naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan Dec. 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy" |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide missions in which a pilot crashed his plane loaded with explosives into an American ship |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the U.S.A. when World War II began |
| Adolf Hitler | German dictator, leader of the Nazi Party, known as "der Fuhrer" |
| Blitzkrieg | Sudden, massive attacks of tanks of and airplanes used by Germany during World II; the German word meaning "lightning war" |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian dictator and leader of the Fascist Party, called "Il Duce" |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet dictator during World War II, known as "Uncle Joe" |
| Harry Truman | the U.S. president when World War II ended |
| the Allies | the name given to Britain, France, the U.S.S.R., and the U.S. during World War II |
| Hirohito | Japanese emperor during World War II |
| the Axis | the name given to Germany, Italy and Japan during World War II |
| Charles de Gaulle | French general who formed an underground movement known as the Free French whose resistance fighters made heroic efforts to sabotage the Nazis |
| Luftwaffe | the German air force during World War II |
| D-Day | Code name for June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France |
| Dunkirk | Scene of the evacuation of British forces from France during World War II; May 26 to June 4, 1940 |
| Yalta | Scente of a conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin in February 1945; a port city on the Black Sea in February |
| Rome | First European capital to be freed from Nazi control |
| Holocaust | The genocidal destruction of Jews by Nazi Germany during Wrold War II |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during World War II who stated, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." |
| Auschwitz | City in southwestern Poland, site of the largest Nazi death camp during World War II |
