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| nonaggression pact | an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another. |
| blitzkrieg | "lighting war" a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces. |
| Charles de Gualle | a French general, set up a government-in-exile in London. |
| Winston Churchill | British prime Minister |
| Battle of Britain | a series of battles over German and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941. |
| Erwin Rommel | Crack German Tank Force General |
| Alantic Charter | a declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War II was based. |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | Japan's greatest naval strategist |
| Pearl Harbor | The U.S> naval base attacked by the Japanese Dec. 7, 1941 killing 2,300 and wounding over 1,100. |
| Battle of Midway | A 1942 sea and air battle of World War II, in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific. |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific. |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which Allied troops drove Japanese forces form the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. |
| Aryan | To the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a "master race." |
| Holocaust | a mass slaughter of Jews and other civlilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II. |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass" the night of November 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany.. |
| Ghetto | city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live. |
| "Final Solution" | Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people. |
| Genocide | the systematic killing of an entire people. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | An American general. |
| Battle of Stingrad | a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during World War II. |
| Battle of the Bulge | a 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War II. |
| kamikaze | during World War II, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them. |
| Nuremberg Trials | a series of court proceedings held in Numrembing, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules war, and crimes against humanity. |
| Demilitarization | a reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons. |
| Democratization | the process of creating a government elected by the people. |
