| A | B |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander of the Allied Forces on the islands of the Philippines.. |
| Chester Nimitz | Commander of the naval forces in the Pacific. |
| Battle of Midway | American victory that is the turning point in the war. |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide-plane attacks. |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | Director of research for the development of the atomic bomb. |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city that was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. |
| Nagasaki | Second Japanese city to be destroyed by an atomic bomb. |
| Nuremberg trials | Trials of German leaders for crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, and war crimes. |