| A | B |
|---|
| Adolf Hitler | dictator of Germany |
| Joseph Stalin | dictator of the USSR |
| Benito Mussolini | dictator of Italy |
| Hideki Tojo | war minister of Japan |
| Hirohito | Japanese emperor |
| Douglas MacArthur | American general in the Pacific theater |
| Dwight Eisenhower | American general in Europe |
| George Patton | American Third Army commander |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last attack |
| Normandy | site of Allied attack, 6/6/44 |
| Rosie the Riveter | name given to female workers |
| Midway | American victory over Japan, 6/4/42 |
| Saipan | site of the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" |
| Iwo Jima | American victory over Japan, 1945 |
| rationing | limiting civilian purchasing |
| Zoot Suits | young man's clothing (especially in Los Angeles) |
| Manzanar | Internment camp for Japanese-Americans |
| submarines | "the silent service" |
| Manhattan Project | America's a-bomb program |
| Operation Torch | America's invasion of North Africa |
| Overlord | Code name for D-Day |
| Casablanca | where Roosevelt and Churchill met |
| Tehran | first meeting of "the big three" |
| Yalta | where postwar plans were finalized |
| Potsdam | meeting of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill |
| Enterprise | most famous American aircraft carrier |
| Hiroshima | site of first atomic bomb attack |
| Bastogne | where US soldiers stopped the German attack of December, 1944 |
| The Sacred Cow | FDR's name for his airplane |
| Fala | FDR's dog |
| Guadalcanal | site of USMC victory over Japan |
| Dresden | German city "firebombed" by US |
| Holocaust | attempted murder of all Jewish people |
| Okinawa | island south of Japan |
| Nagasaki | a-bombed by US 8/9/45 |
| Unconditional Surrender | Allied demand on Germany and Japan |
| Pearl Harbor | site of Japanese attack, 12/7/41 |
| Stalingrad | city where Russia defeated the Germans |
| Battle of Britain | saved England from German invasion |
| Philippines | islands where Japan defeated the US army |
