| A | B |
|---|
| nonagression pact | Pact between Stalin and Hitler |
| blitzkrieg | Military strategy of Germany meaning lightening strike. |
| Charles de Gaulle | Fench general who set u gov't in exile in London. |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime MinisterBattle of Britain |
| Battle of Britain | Series of battles between Germans and British air forces fought over Britain in 1940-1941. |
| Erwin Rommel | German General who attacked British in North Africa to save Italians |
| Atlantic Charter | Issued by Roosevelt & Churchill upholding free trade and the right of people to choose own gov't. |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | Japan's greatest naval strategist. |
| Pearl Harbor | Began U.S. entry into WWII when attacked by Japan on 12-7-42. |
| Battle of Midway | Battle that turned tide of the war in the Pacific. |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific |
| Aryans | Synonym for German people |
| Holocaust | mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians by Nazi government of Germany |
| kristollnocht | Attack on Jewish Community in Paris called "Night of Broken Glass" |
| ghetto | Segregated Jewish areas in Germany |
| Final Solution | Hitler's plan to extinguish Jews |
| genocide | Systematic killing of an entire people |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Army general who led Operation Torch in Morocco and Algeria. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Hitler sent army to capture a major industrial center located on the Volga River: Named for Stalin |
| D-Day | Invasion of Normandy on land and sea began June 6, 1044. |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| Battle of the Bulge | Push by German tanks through weak American defenses. |
| Nuremberg trials | trials of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg Germany |
| demilitarization | Disbanding the Japanese armed forces |
| democratization | Process of creating government elected by the people. |
