| A | B |
|---|
| C. Nimitz | US Navy Admiral |
| D.D. Eisenhower | D-day commander |
| D. MacArthur | said "I shall return" (to the Phillipines) |
| G.S. Patton | tough- nosed general in Europe |
| kamikaze | suicide pilots for Japan |
| blitzkrieg | lightning warfare used by Germany |
| Hitler | leader of the Nazis/Germany during WW II |
| Mussolini | fascist leader of Italy during WW II |
| Holocaust | genocide against the jews during WW II |
| Midway | battle that turned the tide for the Allies in the Pacific |
| Hiroshima | destroyed by the first Atom bomb dropped by the Allies |
| Nagasaki | destroyed on August 9, 1945 by the Allies' second atomic bomb |
| H. Truman | American President that decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan during WW II |
| F.D. Roosevelt | led the US through the Great Depression and much of WW II |
| Normandy | site of the D-Day invasion in northern France |
| December 7, 1941 | Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, US entered the war |
| gestapo | Hitler's secret police force |
| Stalin | leader of Soviet Union during WW II |
| Winston Churchill | leader of Great Britain during WW II who refused to surrender |
| concentration camp | housed Jews and other "undesirables" in Nazi-Germany during WW II |
