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History
8th Grade
05/22/2012

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General Erwin Rommel –
Definition
the “Desert Fox”; German tank commander
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General Dwight Eisenhower –
Definition
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; American
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Stalingrad –
Definition
Soviet city and industrial center surrounded by Germans
Term
D-Day –
Definition
largest air and amphibious assault in history with more
than 5,000 ships Allied invasion of Normandy France on June 6, 1944;
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Battle of Bulge –
Definition
last German offensive with attack of German forces in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium
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Yalta Conference –
Definition
meeting in Yalta by Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill to decide how to end the war and future of
Europe
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VE Day –
Definition
Germany surrenders May 8, 1945
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Holocaust –
Definition
Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews in Europe
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Auschwitz –
Definition
concentration camp in Poland that killed 1 ½ million Jews
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Anti-Semitism –
Definition
prejudice and hatred toward Jewish race
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General Douglas MacArthur –
Definition
Supreme Commander in Pacific; American
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Battle of Midway –
Definition
American navy victory over Japanese at island of Midway in June 1942; six months after Pearl Harbor;
turning point in Pacific
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Island hopping –
Definition
Allied strategy of taking key islands to move closer to Japan
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Iwo Jima –
Definition
island in Pacific and location of largest Marine Corps deaths in American history; American victory with over
5,000 killed
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Code Talkers –
Definition
Navajo Indians recruited to transmit coded message in native language
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Kamikaze –
Definition
Japanese suicide pilots who flew planes into Allied ships; word means “thunder gods
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Manhattan Project –
Definition
top secret weapons program that developed the atomic bomb
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Fat Man and Little Boy –
Definition
names of two atomic bombs
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki –
Definition
two Japanese cities devastated by atomic bombs; 125,000 die in blasts
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VJ Day –
Definition
Victory in Japan on September 2, 1945
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