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| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941; Japanese surprise attack on the naval base in Hawaii |
| Battle of Midway | a 1942 sea and air battle of WWII, in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific |
| nonagression pact | an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another |
| blitzkrieg | “lightning war”, a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | U.S. General, led the American troops in North African Campaign in WWII |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during WWII |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. General, commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific |
| D-Day | - June 6, 1944; the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during WWII |
| Kamikaze | during WWII, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them |
| Battle of Britain | a series of battles between German and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941 |
