59577432 | Winston Churchill | Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid | 0 | |
59577433 | Tojo Hideki | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; dictator of Japan in WWII, tried and executed as war criminal | 1 | |
59577434 | Harry S. Truman | President of the US after Roosevelt's death; approved the use of the atomic bomb against Japan | 2 | |
59577435 | Rape of Nanjing | the massacre of 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians in Nanking by the Japanese Imperial Army after the city was taken in 1937 | 3 | |
59577436 | Munich Conference | Meeting in 1938 in which France and Britain sought to appease German aggression and avert war | 4 | |
59577437 | Axis Powers | comprised the countries that were opposed to the Allies during World War II. | 5 | |
59577438 | Blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939 | 6 | |
59577439 | Battle of Britain | the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it | 7 | |
59577440 | Operation of Barbarossa | code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941 | 8 | |
59577441 | Kamikaze | a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | 9 | |
59577442 | The "Final Solution" | The Nazi cover-up name for the plan to annihilate all of the Jews | 10 | |
59577443 | Comfort Women | women forcibly recruited by the japanese army to serve in military brothels | 11 | |
59577444 | Truman Docturine | Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II, resulting in the final, most deadly phase of the Holocaust | 12 | |
59577445 | Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | 13 | |
59577446 | NATO | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security | 14 | |
59577447 | Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO | 15 |
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