World War II Vocabulary
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- 4. a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
- 5. U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs
- 7. a mass political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of both the nation and the single, powerful leader over the individual citizen.
- 9. the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC),
- 11. an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945
- 12. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
- 15. allowed the U.S. government to lend or lease war supplies to any nation vital to U.S. defense,
- 16. a German submarine used in World War I or World War II.
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- 1. A political leader of the twentieth century. A Democrat, Truman was president from 1945 to 1953. In 1944, after representing Missouri in the Senate, ...
- 2. a person not in the armed services or the police force.
- 3. an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States
- 6. a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity
- 8. media icon associated with female defense workers during World War II
- 10. travel from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands.
- 13. the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
- 14. the name given to American Indians who used their tribal language to send secret communications on the battlefield.