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| Concentration Camps | detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state (Nazi Germany) |
| Mein Kampf | book-autobiography and political ideology of Hitler |
| Extermination camps | camps for the systematic killing of millions of people in what has become known as The Holocaust. |
| Operation Babarosa | code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II |
| D-day | the Allied invasion of Normandy(France), June 6, 1944 |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. |
| Fransisco Franco | dictator of Spain during WWII |
| Dwight Eisenhower | 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general in the United States Army. |
| Harry Truman | 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). |
| Frankiln Roosevelt | 32nd President of the United States. He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war |
| Neville Chamberlain | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain is best known for appeasement foreign policy |
| Tojo Hideki | was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II--sentenced to death for war crimes |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism-Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 |
| Pearl Harbor | The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II. |
| Hiroshima | location of a nuclear attack near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States |
| El Alamein | Two important World War II battles were fought in the area |
| Ethiopia | invaded by Italy 1935-Italy never took complete control over the country |
| Battle of the Bulge | battle where Germany tried to split the Allied forces apart-December 16, 1944 |
| Midway Island | major naval battle widely regarded as the most important of the Pacific Campaign of World War II-Japan's forces seriously damaged |
| Iwo Jima | battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan |
| Stalingrad | battle between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southern Russia-first large-scale German defeat of World War II |
| Warsaw | is the capital and largest city of Poland-was completely destroyed during World War II |
| London | The Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, in World War II. |
| Belzec, Sobibor & Trilinka | extermination camps for Jews and other undesireables |
| holocaust | the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, |
| pacifism | opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage |
| kamikaze | pilots would attempt to intentionally crash their aircraft – often laden with explosives, bombs, torpedoes and full fuel tanks – into Allied ships |
| blitzrieg | "lightning war" |
| appeasement | France and Brtiain gave in to Germany's demands to reach a peaceful understanding |
| Cold War | continuing state of conflict, tension, and competition between countries with no actual fighting |
| collaborator | to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one's country and especially an occupying force |
| United Nations | founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. |
| iron curtain | symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991 |
| arms race | competition between two or more parties for real or apparent military supremacy. |
| coalition | alliance among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in his own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause |
| Axis | three major Axis powers - Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Allied | Britain, USSR and the USA |
| disarmament | reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons |
| Haile Selassie | emperor of Eygpt in exile in Britain seeking help from League of Nations |
