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| is a national treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations. |
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| An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory |
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| French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970) |
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| 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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| German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II (1891-1944) |
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| A declaration of eight common principles in international relations drawn up by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941, which provided the ideological basis for the United Nations organization |
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| Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943) |
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| A harbor on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii, the site of a major US naval base, where a surprise attack on December 7, 1941, by Japanese carrier-borne aircraft inflicted heavy damage and brought the US into World War II |
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| naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands |
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| United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan (1880-1964) |
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| a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces |
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| A member of a people speaking an Indo-European language who invaded northern India in the 2nd millennium bc, displacing the Dravidian and other aboriginal peoples |
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| Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, esp. caused by fire or nuclear war |
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| The occasion of concerted violence by Nazis throughout Germany and Austria against Jews and their property on the night of November 9–10, 1938 |
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| The Jewish quarter in a city |
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| The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945 |
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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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| was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century. |
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| was a major battle of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. It took place between 17 July 1942 and 2 February 1943 |
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| The day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy |
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| was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. |
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| A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target. |
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