| A | B |
|---|
| Battle of Britain | Early turning point of WWII in Western Europe because it was the first time Nazi Germany had been defeated (July to October 1940) |
| Battle of Midway | Turning point of WWII in the Pacific (June 1942). |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Turning point of WWII in Eastern Europe (September 1942 to February 1943) |
| D-Day invasion | Operation Overlord; turning point of WWII in Western Europe (June 6, 1944) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces at the D-Day invasion |
| Manhattan Project | Secret project in which the U.S. (with Britain & Canada) built the atomic bomb |
| Trinity, Little Boy and Fat Man | THree bombs built by the Manhattan Project |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | Cities in Japan where the atomic bombs were dropped (ending WWII) |
| Holocaust | The mass murder of European Jews and other "undesirables" by Nazi GErmany during WWII |
| Victims of the Holocaust | Jews, handicapped, Poles, Slavs, POW's, criminals, mentally ill, Gypsies, Communists |
| Anti-Semitism | Hostility or discrimination against Jews |
| Aryan Supremacy | NAzi Germany belief that blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white, Christian Germans were superior and had the right to invade, control, torture and even kill any inferior group |
