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| Allies | Allies Term generally used to describe the USA, British Empire and their allies in WW2 |
| Auschwitz | Auschwitz Death camp where many thousands of Jews, gypsies and other groups were murdered by the Nazis from 1942-45 |
| Zhukov | Zhukov Outstanding general who led the Red Army on the Eastern Front |
| VJ-Day | VJ-Day Victory in Japan day which marked the surrender of Japan in August 15th 1945 following the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs |
| VE-Day | VE-Day Day marking Victory in Europe and the surrender of Germany on May 8th 1945 |
| U-Boat | U-Boat English word used for a German submarine or 'U-Boot' |
| Truman | Truman, Harry American Vice President for most of WW2 who took over as President after Roosevelt's death in April 1945 |
| Churchill | Churchill, Winston British Prime Minister in WW2 from 1940-1945 |
| Final Solution | Final Solution Nazi plan to kill the entire Jewish population in Europe dating from spring 1942, although hundreds of thousands of Jews already had been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms (see below) before this time |
| D-Day | D-Day Allied invasion of German held France in June 1944 |
| Concentration Camp | Concentration Camp Camps in Germany used by the Nazis to hold and torture their opponents, not the same as death camps. However, many died in such camps |
| Hitler | Hitler, Adolf Leader of Germany in WW2 and head of the Nazi party |
| Blitzkrieg | Blitzkrieg The German for "lighting war". A swift, sudden military attack using bomber aircraft to support fast moving tanks and motor vehicles |
| Luftwaffe | Luftwaffe German Air Force |
| Holocaust | Holocaust The mass murder of around 6 million Jews and other racial groups by the Nazis in WW2 |
