| A | B |
|---|
| General Dwight Eisenhower | Commander of Allied forces in Europe; American general |
| Stalingrad | City in the Soviet Union where Germans and Soviets battled for four months; considered the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe |
| Normandy | Location of Allied invasion in western Europe |
| Holocaust | systematic attempt by Hitler to rid Europe of all Jews; deliberate extermination of millions of European Jews and other civilians |
| Nuremberg Trials | War crimes trials of high-ranking Nazi officials held in Nuremberg, Germany |
| Manhattan Project | Code name given to the program that developed the atomic bombs in the US |
| Battle of the Bulge | Last German offensive battle; the Allied lines “bulged” but did not break |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanese general who pushed Japan to expand; he held most of the power in Japan |
| Coral Sea and Midway | two battles in the Pacific, the American navy defeated the Japanese; slowed Japanese advances, ended Japanese superiority in Pacific - six months after Pearl Harbor. |
| Island hopping | a military strategy to cut Japanese supply lines by capturing key islands and using them as bases to attack other Japanese strongholds |
| Harry Truman | Leader of the US at the end of W.W.II; took over after FDR died in office. |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Two Japanese cities where the US dropped atomic bombs |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944; Allied invasion of Normandy, France across the English Channel. The turning point of the war in western Europe |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol of women workers during W.W.II |
