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59577432Winston ChurchillBritain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid0
59577433Tojo HidekiJapanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; dictator of Japan in WWII, tried and executed as war criminal1
59577434Harry S. TrumanPresident of the US after Roosevelt's death; approved the use of the atomic bomb against Japan2
59577435Rape of Nanjingthe massacre of 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians in Nanking by the Japanese Imperial Army after the city was taken in 19373
59577436Munich ConferenceMeeting in 1938 in which France and Britain sought to appease German aggression and avert war4
59577437Axis Powerscomprised the countries that were opposed to the Allies during World War II.5
59577438Blitzkrieg"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 19396
59577439Battle of Britainthe prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it7
59577440Operation of Barbarossacode name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 19418
59577441Kamikazea fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II9
59577442The "Final Solution"The Nazi cover-up name for the plan to annihilate all of the Jews10
59577443Comfort Womenwomen forcibly recruited by the japanese army to serve in military brothels11
59577444Truman DocturineNazi 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 Holocaust12
59577445Marshall Plana United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)13
59577446NATOan international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security14
59577447Warsaw PactAn alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO15

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