| A | B |
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| Nisei | Japanese born in the US |
| rationing | Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American General became Supreme Allied Commander;organized d day |
| George Patton | American General who helped liberate Paris |
| Harry S Truman | President who succeeded FDR |
| Battle of the Bulge | German counter-offensive; Germany's last defeat |
| V-E Day | May 8, 1945; Victory over Europe |
| Douglas MacArthur | American commander in the Philippines; said "I shall return" |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide plane |
| Manhattan Project | Secret project to develop the atomic bomb |
| Robert Oppenheimer | Scientist who led the Manhattan Project |
| Hiroshima | city was the site of the first atomic bomb dropped in Japan |
| Nagasaki | Japanese city that was the site of the second atomic-bomb drop |
| Yalta Conference | Secret meeting of FDR, Stalin, and Churchill |
| United Nations | international organziation formed in 1945 |
| Nuremberg Trials | Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes |
| D-Day | Allied invasion to liberate Europe |
| Holocaust | Systematic murder of 11million Jews and other people in Europe by the Nazis |
| Kristallnacht | name given to 11-9-38 when the Nazis attacked Jews, their businesses and their synagogues |
| genocide | Deliberate and systematic killing of an entire race of people |
| concentration camp | where the Nazis starved the Jews , work camps, experiments etc |
| internment camp | Japanese Americans were put in the central US locations |
| Navajo | used as code talkers during WWII |
| Operation Overlord | code name for the invasion of Normandy France |
| island hopping | American plan to capture some Japanese held islands in the Pacific and go around others |
| Enola Gay | plane that dropped the atomic bomb |
| Bataan | Peninsula where the American and Filipino soldiers were forced to walk 65 miles; 10,000 of them died |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol used on posters to show patriotic women working in constuction |
| Japanese Americans | group discriminated against in the United States |
| Auchwitz | largest concentration camp; known for killing the most people |
| Iwo Jima | battle where Americans struggled to take Island; memorial of marines raising the flag exists in Washington DC |
| Coral Sea | Americans prevented the Japanese from advancing on Australia during this 1st aerial battle |
| Midway | Americans prevented the Japanese from advancing on Hawaii;important turning point |
| Stalingrad | Germans forced to retreat; Soviet Union had heavy causualties |
| Operation Torch | code name for the invasion fo North Africa |
| Italy | the soft underbelly of Europe |
| genocide | deliberate extermination of a specific group of people |
| Chester Nimitz | Commander of American naval forces in the Pacific |
| VJ Day | Day Japan surrendered |
| Little boy | code name for bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| Fat Man | code name for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
| Josef Mengele | The angel of death at Auchwitz; known for experimentation |
| Nuremberg laws | Laws that limited the rights of Jews |
| Nuremberg trials | Nazi leaders were tried here; attempted the " We were only following orders " defense |
| Einstatzgruppen | German killing units that went into the USSR |
| government issue | what GI stands for |
| Geneva convention | set international standards for the treatment of prisoners of war |
| Zoot suit riots | altercation between Mexican Ams and police in Los Angelas. |
| Israel | country created for the Jewish people after WWII |
| euthanasia | killing life unworthy of living |
| Executive Order 8802 | issued to prevent discrimination in defense industries |
| Executive Order 9066 | interned Japanese Americans |
| Double V Campaign | begun by Black newspapers to highlight racial issues |
| CORE | organization that promoted racial equality |
| Korematsu v. United States | upheld the legality of the internment of the Japanese Americans |
| STalingrad | battle at which the Germans were halted in the USSR |
| El Alamein | Battle in N. Africa where the allies were victorious |
| Anzio | Bloody allied victory in Italy |
| A Phillip Randolph | Black Am. who led marches; even cancelled a march after the Executive Order 8802 |
| Guadalcanal | first land victory for the Americans in the Pacific |
| Audie Murphy | most decorated WWII soldier who returned and starred in 44 movies |
| Andrew Jackson Higgins | New Orleans Boat designer who made dday possible; The American Noah |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | Allied forces "returned" to the Phillipines only to engage in the large scale battle where Japanese used kamikazes for the first time |
