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CH. 13 S.S.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hitler invades Poland | Sept. 1,1939 |
| Pearl Harbor bombed | Dec. 7, 1941 |
| Battle of Midway | June 1942 |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 |
| Japan surrenders | August 14, 1945 |
| Benito Mussolini | Leader of Italy |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Germany |
| Josef Stalin | Leader of Soviet Union |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britian |
| Hideki Tojo | Leader of Japan |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | led the Allies on their trip to North Africa |
| Erwin Rommel | General of Germany |
| Douglas MacArthur | led American and Filipino troops |
| James Doolittle | led 16 bombers to the attack at Japan |
| Rosie the Riveter | Strong hard working women used for propaganda |
| FDR | President of the U.S. at the time |
| Harry Truman | president after FDR |
| Luftwaffe | the German airforce |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan against the allies |
| "The Big Three" | Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill |
| "Final Solution" | Nazis set out murder to any Jew under German rule |
| Appeasement | the granting of concessions to a hostile power |
| Blitzkrieg | a method stressed speed and surprise the use of equipment |
| Lend-Lease Act | allowed U.S. to lend equipment to the allies |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | two cities bombed by the U.S. |
| Navajo Indians | used to translate codes from Japan |
| Manhattan Project | a top secret program that made the atomic bomb |
| Fascism | to have extreme form of patriotism |
| Holocaust | Nazis killed 6 million men, women, and children |
| Munich Agreement | The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's border |
| Stalingrad | turning point in Europe |
| V-E day | May 8th |
| Jonas Salk developed | Salk Vacine |