World War II Vocabulary

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  1. 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.
  2. 5. U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs
  3. 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.
  4. 9. the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC),
  5. 11. an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945
  6. 12. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
  7. 15. allowed the U.S. government to lend or lease war supplies to any nation vital to U.S. defense,
  8. 16. a German submarine used in World War I or World War II.
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  1. 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. 2. a person not in the armed services or the police force.
  3. 3. an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States
  4. 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
  5. 8. media icon associated with female defense workers during World War II
  6. 10. travel from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands.
  7. 13. the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
  8. 14. the name given to American Indians who used their tribal language to send secret communications on the battlefield.