| A | B |
|---|
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. general in the Pacific during World War II |
| Armenians | victims of genocide by leaders of the Ottoman Empire |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during World War II |
| Final Solution | killing of Jews at extermination camps using gas chambers |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Allied commander that planned the D-Day invasion, later became U.S. President after Harry Truman |
| genocide | systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | global expression of basic human rights adopted by the United Nations after World War II |
| Harry Truman | U.S. president after FDR |
| Nagasaki | Japanese city on which the U.S. dropped the second atomic bomb |
| appeasement | policy of restoring peace by giving in to demands |
| United Nations | permanent international organization of countries created to handle future global problems |
| Marshall Plan | plan to help strengthen post WWII western European economies |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, established by democracies in North America and western Europe after World War II |
| isolationism | policy of avoiding involvement in international alliances and affairs |
| pacifism | refusal to participate in war |
| D-Day | allied invastion of the French beaches in Europe |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city on which the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | U.S. president during World War II |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanse general, ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| Warsaw Pact | signed by the Soviet Union and its eastern European allies in response to NATO |
| Hirohito | emperor of Japan during World War II |
| Tutsi | minority in Rwanda, victims of attempted genocide by the Hutus |
| Pearl Harbor | site of attack by the Japanese that causes the U.S. to enter WWII |
| George Marshall | U.S. general during World War II, the post war recovery plan was named after him |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet dictator during World War II |
| Pol Pot | Leader that carried out genocide on many groups in Cambodia |
| War Crimes Trials | trials in which thousands of German and Japanese soldiers were held accountable for their actions during WWII |
