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VEP
Victory in Eroupe and the Pacific words
Term | Definition |
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D-Day | The day America freed France from German control |
Battle of Bulge | A counter attack by German soldiers in an attempt to damage the American and British troops |
Harry S. Truman | Became president after FDR died during the wartime |
Island Hopping | A tactic used by US soldiers that had them hopping to key islands in the attack on Japan |
Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who ran their planes into other planes. In Japanese it meant divine or spirit wind |
Albert Einstien | The worlds most famous scientist, developer of the first atomic bomb |
Manhattan Project | The worlds most famous scientist, developer of the first atomic bomb |
J. Robert Oppenhiemer | The leader of the scientific aspect within the Manhatten project |