| A | B |
|---|
| blitzkreig | Germany's lightening quick style of attack |
| Charles de Gaulle | French General who took control of French government |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of England during WWII |
| Atlantic Charter | Document stating the things the U.S. would be willing to enter WWII to fight for. |
| Pearl Harbor | U.S. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | Japanese Naval Commadner who planned Pearl Harbor attack. |
| Battle of Midway | Pacific naval battle that changed the tide of the war |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. General who was responsible for Japan after they surrendered |
| Charles Nimitz | US Naval Commander who defeated the Japanese at Midway |
| Guadalcanal | Battle fought to stop the Japanese from building a strategic air strip |
| Kristallnacht | night of broken glass. Jewish homes, shops & temples attacked. |
| holocaust | The killing of 6 million Jews during WWII |
| ghettos | segregated Jewish communities set up by Nazi's |
| final solution | Hitler's plan to eliminate Jews from Germany |
| genocide | Systematic extermination of a race of people. |
| Erwin Rommell | The Desert Fox was Hitler's top General |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Leader of U.S. invasion on D-Day |
| internment camps | Prison camps that all Japanese-Americans were forced to go. |
| concentration camps | Prison camps for European Jews |
| D-Day | the day that the Allies invaded France |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last ditch attempt to stop the Allied invasion of Germany |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicidal pilots who would crash their planes into U.S. warships |
| Nuremberg trials | Trial of 22 Nazi's charged with crimes against humanity |
| demilitarization | U.S. policy to force Japan to abandon it's military |
