| A | B |
|---|
| kamikaze | Japanese practice of crashing planes into Allied ships |
| Enola Gay | plane that dropped the bomb |
| island hopping | plan to capture some Japanese held islands in Pacific and go around others |
| Andrew Higgins | created the boats for theD-day invastion and others amphibious invasions of WWII |
| Dwight Eisenhower | SAC-ETO, led the D day invasion |
| Harry Truman | president that made the decision to use atomic bomb |
| FDR | only president to win a third term |
| Yalta | secret conference where the Big 3 made decision about Europe after the war |
| Hiroshima | city where the first atomic bomb was dropped |
| Bataan | peninsula in the Philippines where American and Filipino soldiers were forced to walk 65 miles; 10000 of them died |
| Luftewaffe | German airforce |
| RAF | British airforce |
| Operation Torch | code name for the Allied invasion of North Africa |
| Operation Overlord | code name for the cross channel invasion of France |
| Manhattan Project | secret name for the atomic bomb project |
| Gen. Douglas MacArthur | led Allied troops in the Pacific; vowed "I shall return" |
| J Robert Oppenheimer | led the project to develop the Atomic bomb |
| Auchwitz | Nazi death camp that killed the most people |
| Nagasaki | Japanese city that was bombed just before Japan's surrender |
| VE Day | day after Germany surrendered |
| VJ Day | day that Japan surrendered |
| Battle of the Bulge | last German offensive;Germany was defeated |
| Midway | important naval victory for Americans; turning point in the war |
| Iwo Jima | hard fought battle depicted by monument in DC and a famous picture of the men raising the flag on Mt. Surabachi |
| D-Day | June 6.1944 |
| Guadalcanal | important land victory for the US |
| Okinawa | Am. captured this island and were then poised to invade the mainland |
| United Nations | organization that was created as a result of WWII |
| rationing | established fixed allotments of goods deemed essentioal for the military |
| Chester Nimitz | led US naval troops at Midway |
| internment camps | where Japanese Americans were forced to go during World War II |
| concentration camps | where Jews, Homosexuals, and Jehovah Witnesses were sent |
| Coral Sea | naval battle where United States troops forced Japanese to use too much fuel and halted their advancement toward Australia |
| Stalingrad | battle that halted German advancement into the Soviet Union; huge losses on both sides |
| Navajo | used as code talkers during World War II |
| Nisei | Japanese Americans born in the US |
| Nuremberg Trials | Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes |
