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Adolf Hitler - -He was the leader of Germany.
-Benito Mussolini - -He was the leader of Italy.
-Joseph Stalin - -He was the leader of the Soviet Union.
-Winston Churchill - -He was the leader of Great Britain.
-Franklin Roosevelt - -He was the President of the U.S. during most of WWII;
he died in April, 1945.
-Hirohito - -He was the emperor of Japan.
-Dwight Eisenhower - -Top Allied general in Europe (he was American)
-Douglas MacArthur - -He was the head U.S. general in the Pacific theater;
he took the official surrender of Japan.
-Harry Truman - -He became president at the end of the war; he gave the
order to drop the atomic bombs.
-Potsdam Conference - -Meeting between the U.S, Great Britain, and the
Soviet Union in July 1945 in Germany. Soviets showed that they were not
going to allow free election in Eastern Europe; started tensions between U.S.
and Soviet Union.
-Nazi - -Hitler's political group that took control of Germany.
-Fascism - -A political philosophy that advocated a strong, centralized,
nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator.
-Communism - -A totalitarian system of government where a single
authoritarian party controls state owed means of production.
-Blitzkrieg - -"Lightning War"; fast moving warfare that utilized tanks and
planes; used by the Germans in the early years of the war.
-Luftwaffe - -The German Air Force
, -Holocaust - -The murder of 12 million people (6 million Jews) carried out by
Nazi Germany.
-Genocide - -The extermination of a racial, religious, or ethnic group.
-Battle of the Atlantic - -A battle between German submarined vs. British
and American ships; the Allies won.
-Auschwitz - -This was the largest death camp, where around 3 million were
killed during the Holocaust.
-Lend-Lease Act - -The U.S agreed to give weapons to Great Britain (and
later Soviet Union) to help them fight Germany; they would pay the U.S back
later.
-D-Day - -Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy,
France.
-Battle of the Bulge - -Germany's last offensive; occurred December 1944;
won by Allies
-Battle of Stalingrad - -Turning point in Europe after this battle; the Soviets
began to push Germany back
-Battle of El Alamein - -Battle that was the turning point in North Africa
(British defeated Germans)
-Pearl Harbor - -It was attacked on December 7, 1941; when Japanese
attacked it, U.S. joined the war.
-Battle of Midway - -Turning point in the Pacific; at the battle, the U.S sunk
four Japanese aircraft carriers.
-Kamikaze - -Suicide Japanese pilots who tried to crash into U.S. ships; war
tactic
-Hiroshima - -This was where the first atomic bomb was dropped. (Little
Boy. August 6, 1945)
-Nagasaki - -This was where the second atomic bomb was dropped. (Fat
Man. August 9, 1945)
-Numberg Trials - -Met in 1946 to punish those responsible for the
Holocaust
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