| A | B |
|---|
| DDay | June 6, 1944 Allies attack Germans along French coast |
| Battle of Bulge | Allies encircled by Germans at Bastogne, Belgium |
| Harry S. Truman | became President after death of FDR |
| island hopping | American strategy in Pacific of attacking Japanese held islands |
| kamikaze | Japanese pilots deliberately crashing into American ships |
| Albert Einstein | world's famous scientist encourage development of atomic bomp |
| Manhattan Project | code-name of American atomic bomb project |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | directed scientific aspects of atomic bomb project |
| Holocaust | Nazi attempt to kill all Jews and other ethnic peoples |
| anti-semitism | prejudice and discrimination against Jews |
| Nuremberg Laws | denied citizrnship to Jews, banned |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass" police & military destroy jewish synagogues & businesses |
| genocide | willful annihilation of a racial, political or cultural group |
| concentration camp | confinment of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, etc. |
| death camp | systematic extermination of Jews and otheer undesirables |
| War Rufugee Board | worked with Red Cross to save Jews in Romania & Hungary |
| Yalta Conference | Feb, 1945, regarding post-war Germany between US, Britain, Russia |
| superpower | powerful country that is dominate in world economics, political & military |
| GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade) | international agreement lowering trade barriers (1947) |
| United Nations | 1945 organization to promote peace |
