| A | B |
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| Holocaust | Nazi Germany's systematic killing of european Jews. |
| kristallnacht | "Night of broken glass" jewish homes, businesses and synogogues were destroed by the Nazi's |
| concentration camps | prisons camps where Jews were sent for extermination. |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Allied POwers | England, France, Soviet Union, & U.S. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | U.S. President and the time of the U.S.'s entrance in WWII. |
| Winston Churchill | English Prime Minister during their entrance to WWII. |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet dictator who led the U.S.S.R. into WWII. |
| Adolph Hitler | Leader of the Nazi Party and Third Reich. |
| Erwin Rommell | "desert fox" Hitler's top general and leader of the famed "Afrika Corps" |
| Lend Lease Act | Congressional act that allowed the U.S. to lend or lease war materials to nations that we deemd crucial. |
| Hidekji Tojo | Military leader of Japan during WWII. |
| Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | U.S. Naval headquarters attacked by Japanese. |
| George Marshall | Army Chief of Staff who recommended theuse of women in the Army |
| W.A.A.C. | Women's Army Auxiliary Corp. Used in Amry to work jobs that were non-combative, to allow more men into the battlefields. |
| G.I. | General Issue. Used in reference to American soldiers. |
| Phillip Randolph | Leaderof the Brotherhoodof sleeping Car Porters who worked for eqwuality in the workplace for African American workers. |
| Officve of Science and Research Development | Created to look for ways that science and technology could be used in WWII. |
| Albert Eninstein | German scientist that defected to the U.S. He told the U.S. about the Atomic bomb. |
| Manhatten Project | Secret U.S. project to build an Atomic bomb. |
| National Committee on Uranium | Created to examine the power of uranium and possibiolyty of a weapon using it's power. |
| internment camps | U.S. prison camps where Japanese-Americans were forced to re-locate |
| Nisei | American born Japanese-Americans |
| rationing | limits placed on the use of food and consumer goods. |
| Office of Price Administration | Set prioces for products to prevent inflation, set ration limits on consumer goods. |
| Benito Mussolini | Facist Dictator of Italy during WWII. |
| D-Day | Demarcation Day. Day of the allied invasion of German controleld France. |
| Battle of the bulge | Hitler's last ditch effor tto stop the allied assault into Germany. |
| George S. Patton | U.S. General in command of the allied invasion of France. |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day. Day Germany surrendered.- |
| Douglas MacArthur | Leader of U.S. forces in S. Pacific |
| Chester Nimitz | U.S. Commander of naval forces in Pacific. |
| J. Robert Oppenheimmer | Lead scientist of the Manhatten Project. |
| Hiroshima | 1st city attacked with an atomic bomb |
| Nagasaki | 2nd city attacked by an atomic bomb. |
| Enola Gay | B-52 Bomber that dropped atomic bombs on Japan. |
| United Nations | International Peacekeeping organization created after WWII. |
| Nurmeburg trials | War croiomes trials for Nazi crominals held in Nuremburg, Germany |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower. | American WWII General that went on to become the President of the U.S. |
