WWII Vocab Flashcard

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Japan's attack on Dec 7, 1941, at a Hawaii naval base; led to US entry into WWII.

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Pearl Harbor

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Largest sea invasion in history, led by US General Eisenhower, pushed Germans out of France.

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D Day

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Horrible time when millions of Jews were killed by Hitler's Nazis

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Holocaust

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Day celebrating Germany's surrender

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VE Day

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Pacific Island where Japanese fought fiercely but lost to US Marines during island-hopping campaign.

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Iwo Jima

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Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped

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Hiroshima

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Japanese city where the second atomic bomb was dropped

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Nagasaki

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Day Japan surrendered

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VJ Day

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US President during most of WWII, died in office 1945.

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Franklin Roosevelt

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Dictator of the Soviet Union

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Joseph Stalin