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| nonaggression pact | an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another |
| blitzkrieg | "lighting war"--a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces |
| Battle of Britain | a series of battles between German and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941 |
| Atlantic Charter | a declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchhill and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War ll was based |
| Battle of Midway | 1941 sea and air battle of World War ll, in which the American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | a 1942-1943 battle of World War ll, in which Allied troops drove Japanese forces from the Pacific island of Guadalcanal |
| Aryans | to the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a "master race." |
| Holocaust | a mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi goernment of Germany before and during World War ll |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass"--the night of November 9, 1838, on which Nazi storm troops attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany |
| ghettos | city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live |
| Final Solution | Hitler's program of systematically killing the enitre Jewish people |
| genocide | the systematic killing of an entire people |
| Battle of Stalingrad | a 1942-1943 battle of World War ll, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944--the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during World War II. |
| Battle of the Bulge | a 1944-1945 battle in which the Allies forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War ll. |
| kamikaze | during World War ll, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them |
| Nuremberg Trials | a series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War ll, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity. |
| demilitarization | a reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved bydisbanding its armd forces & prohibiting it from acquiring weapons |
| Charles de Gaulle | Leader of the French government-in-exile |
| Winston Churchill | Leader of Britain |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | Japanese admiral who decided that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific |
| Erwin Rommel | German general who led troops in North Africa |
| Bernard Montgomery | British general who drove the Germans out of Egypt |
