A | B |
Kamikaze | Japanese pilots on a "suicide" mission to bring down the enemy |
Emperor Hirohito | Emperor of JapanConference at |
yalta | 3 leaders meet to plan for end of War |
The big Three | Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt |
Harry Truman | President who took over after FDR died, made decision to drop the bomb |
Enola Gay | name of the plane that dropped the bomb |
Iron Curtain | Churchill's term for the Eastern European states takenover by the SU |
Marshall Plan | Plan to rebuild Europe after WWII |
Nuremberg | where Nazi war criminals were tried |
Truman Doctrine | Contain communism to where it is at teh end of WWII and fight it's expansio |
expansionism | the drive to increase territory |
Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of Eastern European countries and the SU |
Soviet bloc | communist countries of Eastern Europe |
Berlin Wall | Separated East and West Berlin |
Cold War | tenssion and hostility without armed conflict |
satellite country | compete control over a country except by name |
Nationalization | taking over of industry by government |
Nagasaki | the second city on which the US dropped the atomic bomb |
Hiroshima | the first city on which the US dropped the atomic bomb |
Pearl Harbor | Hawsaiin city, the Japanese bombing of which drove the US into the war |