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| Pearl Harbor | Location of naval base bombed by Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941 |
| Dunkirk | Little ships, yachts, ferries rescued trapped soldiers in France by taking them across the English Channel |
| Battle of Britain | The Luftwaffe abandoned its fight with the RAF to focus on bombing cities |
| Operation Overlord (D-day) | Allied invasion of Normandy, France which was the turning point of the war on the western front in Europe |
| Operation Barbarossa | Hitler's plan to invade the Soviet Union to gain lebensraum (living space) for his people |
| Operation Torch | Allied invasion of North Africa which protected the Suez Canal and opened a second front diverting German troops from Russia |
| Stalingrad | Street by street desperate battle which resulted in a destroyed city; turning point on the eastern front |
| Battle of the Bulge | Last German offensive as the troops attempt to break through American lines |
| North Africa | Where Americans went first to gain experience against the German army led by Rommel |
| Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy |
| Hitler | Nazi dictator of Germany |
| Stalin | Communist dictator of the Soviet Union |
| Malmedy Massacre | Murder of 81 POWs by German troops |
| Midway | Turning point of the war in the Pacific |
| Guadalcanal | First offensive in the Island Hopping campaign |
| Bataan | A peninsula in the Phillippines where many American troops were forced on a brutal death march |
| Iwo Jima | Volcanic island with hundreds of miles of tunnels dug by the Japanese; nasty battle for a Japanese home island |
| Okinawa | Last island before Japan; used as a base to bomb Japan; kamikazes were utilized heavily |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Cities where we dropped the Atomic Bombs |
| Enola Gay and Bocks Car | Names of the planes used to drop the bombs |
| Manhattan Project | Name given to the development of the Atomic bomb |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | Creator of the Atomic bomb |
| Tokyo | City ravaged by incendiary devices (fire bombs) |
| Poston, AZ and Manzanar, CA. | Two largest Japanese- American internment camps |
| Auschwitz | Most well known extermination camp |
