| A | B |
|---|
| Policy of Appeasement | Giving up principles to avoid a conflict. |
| island hopping | Strategy used by MacArthur in the Pacific Theatre to skip over Japanese islands. |
| Operation Overlord | Code words for invasion of Normandy. |
| D-Day | Code word for day of Normandy invasion. |
| Isolationism | Avoiding international conflicts. |
| AEF | Allied Expeditionary Forces |
| RAF | Great Britain's Royal Air Force |
| Luftwaffe | Germany's Air Force during World War II. |
| blackshirts | Followers of Benito Mussolini and his fascist ideas. |
| Mein Kempf | "My Struggle" a book written by Adolph Hitler outlining his plans for Germany. |
| blitzkrieg | New for of warfare used by Germany against Poland. |
| anti-semitism | Discrimination against Jewish people. |
| Schicklgruber | Adolph Hitler's real last name. |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allied Powers | France, Great Britain, U.S. |
| Maginot Line | Set of defenses located on border of France and Germany. |
| Atlantic Wall | Coastal defenses built by Germany along the coast of France. |
| Lend-Lease Act | The U.S. lent money and military equipment to allies during World War II. |
| Hiroshima | Sit of first U.S. atomic bomb drop. |
| Little boy | Knickname for bomb dropped on Hiroshima. |
| Enola Gay | Knickname given to plane carrying atomic bomb to Japan. |
| Malmedy Massacre | American POW's were killed during the Battle of the Bulge in what is now known as this incident. |
