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| A non-aggression pact is an international treaty between two or more states agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and... |
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| An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. |
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| An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. |
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| Churchill: British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965). |
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| the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it. |
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| Rommel: German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II (1891-1944). |
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| The Atlantic Charter was a published statement agreed between Britain and the United States of America. It was intended as the blueprint... |
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| Yamamoto: Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943). |
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| A harbor in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, the site of a major US naval base, where a surprise attack on December 7, 1941, by Japanese... |
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| Midway: naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on... |
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| MacArthur: United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he... |
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| Guadalcanal: a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by... |
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| A member of a people speaking an Indo-European language who invaded northern India in the 2nd millennium bc. |
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| Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, esp. caused by fire or nuclear war: "a nuclear holocaust". |
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| Kristallnacht (literally "Crystal Night") or The Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany (including... |
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| A part of a city, esp. a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. |
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| The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews 1941–45. |
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| The deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation. |
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| Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was a five-star general in the United States Army and the... |
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| The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the... |
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| date of the Allied landing in France, World War II. |
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| Battle of the Ardennes Bulge: a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the... |
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| (in World War II) A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target. |
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| The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the main victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for... |
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| (demilitarize) do away with the military organization and potential of. |
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| the action of making something democratic. |
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