| A | B |
|---|
| Guernica | Famous painting by Picasso depicting the bombing of a Spanish town. |
| Appeasement | Policy of giving in to an aggressor’s demands in order to keep peace |
| Pacifism | Opposition to all war |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 – Allied invasion of France |
| Operation Barbarossa | Hitler’s plan to attack the Soviet Union |
| Pearl Harbor | Naval base in Hawaii; Attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 |
| Blitzkrieg | “lightning war” |
| Hiroshima | Japanese town that was attacked with atomic bomb on 8/6/1945. |
| Holocaust | Genocide targeted at Jewish population in Europe |
| Kamikaze | Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission |
| Truman Doctrine | Said the US should support free peoples from around the world who were resisting takeovers |
| Marshall Plan | Said the US should provide aid to all European nations that need it. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| United Nations | An international peace keeping organization. |
| Cold War | War of words/ideas – not fighting |
| Spanish Civil War | Dress rehearsal for WWII |
| London | City that was the target of a Nazi blitz for two months in 1941. |
| Island Hopping | Us strategy in the Pacific |
