World War II Vocab
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| Tuskegee Airman | First African American fighter pilots
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| Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii that was bombed by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941
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| World War II | War fought from 1939-1945 between the Allies and the Axis.
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| atomic bomb | Type of bomb built during WW2
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| Allied Powers | Alliance of Britain, Fance, US, Canada, and the Soviet Union
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| rationing | Government limiting the amount of food each person in the US could buy
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| dictator | leader with complete control of a country's government
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| Axis Powers | alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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| island hopping | Method of warfare used by the US navy to fight Japan
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| D-day | Invasion by Allied forces landing on the beaches of Normandy, France
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| Holocaust | murder of about 12 million people by Nazis during WWII
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| Harry Truman | Became President after Roosevelt who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb
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| United Nations | Organization of 50 countries whose goal is to keep peace between countries
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| VJ-Day | August 15, 1945 - Day of Japanese surrender
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| concentration camps | prisions in which the Nazis enslaved and murdered Jews and other people during WWII
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| kamikaze | Deliberate crashing of airplanes by the Japanese
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| Adolph Hitler | Nazi leader of Germany
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| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan
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| General Tojo | Japanese military leader
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| Benito Mussolini | leader of the Fascist party in Italy
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| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain
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| President Roosevelt | U.S. President
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| Joseph Stalin | Dictator of Soviet Union (joined after 1941
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