| A | B |
|---|
| nonagression pact | Agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another |
| blitzkrieg | Warfare in which surprise air attacks are followed by massive attacks on land |
| Charles de Gaulle | Leader of the French government-in-exile |
| Winston Churchill | Leader of Great Britain |
| Battle of Britian | A series of battles between British and German air forces fought over *** in 1940-1941 |
| Erwin Rommel | German general who led troops in North Africa |
| Atlantic Charter | Declaration of principles issued by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1941 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | Japanese admiral who decided that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed |
| Pearl Harbor | Navy base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese, Dec. 7, 1941 |
| Battle of Midway | 1942 sea and air battle in which American forces defeated Japanese forces near ** island in the Pacific |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. general who commanded allied forces in the Pacific |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | Six-month battle on the island of ** in which American and Australian troops defeated Japanese defenders |
| Aryans | To the Nazis, Germanic peoples who formed a "master race" |
| Holocaust | Systematic mass killing of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany on November 9, 1939 |
| Ghettos | Neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live |
| Final Solution | Hitler's plan to kill as many Jews as possible |
| Genocide | Systematic killing of an entire people |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American general who led the Allied invasions of North Africa and France (D-Day) |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Battle during which the Soviet Red Army forced the Germans out of *** |
| D-Day | Huge Allied invasion mounted to retake France from the Germans |
| Battle of the Bulge | Final large-scale attack by German troops that was forced back by the Allies |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships |
| Nuremberg Trials | Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity, held in ***, Germany |
| Demilitarization | Removing armed forces and weapons of a country |
| Democratization | Process of creating a government elected by the people |
| total war | a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields |
