| A | B |
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| Nagasaki and Hiroshima | These two Japanese cities where the atomic bomb was dropped |
| Kamikaze | This was the name given to Japanese suicide pilots. |
| Normandy | This was the location of Allied invasion in western Europe. It established a western front. |
| Harry S. Truman | He was the leader of the US at the end of WWII because he took over after FDR died. |
| Holocaust | The deliberate extermination of millions of European Jews and other civilians by Germany. |
| D-Day | On this day, June 6, 1944, Allies invaded Normandy by crossing the English Channel. |
| Rosie the Riveter | This was a symbol of women workers during WWII. |
| Nuremburg Trials | These were war crimes trials held in after the war. |
| Battle of Midway | Battle in the Pacific; turning point of the war in the Pacific. |
| Stalingrad | This was the city in the Soviet Union where Germans and Soviets battle for four months. It was considered the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe. |
| island hopping | This was a military strategy to cut Japanese supply lines by capturing key islands and using them as bases to attack other Japanese strongholds |
| concentration and death camps | Guarded compounds where ethnic minorities and political opponents of the Nazis were kept were called |
| liberation | When Allied forces freed prisoners from the Nazi concentration camps it was called |
| Anti-Semitism | means hatred of people who are Jewish. |
| Aryan Supremacy | is a belief that people of the Aryan race are superior to others. |
| rationing | When people could only buy a certain amount of goods it was called |
