| A | B |
| Axis Powers | Italy, Germany and Japan |
| Allies | USA, Soviet Union and Great Britain |
| mobilize | to get ready for war |
| siege | a military blocking of a city to force its surrender |
| partisan | a person who strongly believes in a cause |
| amphibious landing | a planned movement of troops from the sea |
| rationing | limiting the amount of something that each person can buy |
| internment camp | prison like place in which people are held during a war |
| Holocaust | The mass murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis |
| genocide | the planned murder of an entire people |
| atomic bomb | a nuclear bomb with enormous power to harm |