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WWII The Middle
Term | Definition |
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V-E Day | Victory in Europe |
Yalta Conference | Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt discuss the end of the war |
D-Day | The Day things get done, the Allies begin the liberation of France |
Stalingrad | Hitler's invasion of the USSR stopped here |
Dwight Eisenhower | American General who was responsible for victories in Africa |
Aircraft Carrier | ships that transport planes |
Rosie the Riveter | A symbol of how women helped the war effort at home |
Bataan Death March | Japanese murder several hundred American soldiers on this 65 mile death march |
Douglas MacArthur | U.S. General who was responsible for winning the war in the Pacific |
Island hopping | U.S. campaign to regain islands in the pacific held by the Japanese |
Kamikazi | Japanese suicide pilots |
Manhattan Project | American plan to build an Atom Bomb |
Hiroshima & Nagasaki | The two Japanese cities America dropped the A-bomb on |