wwII vocab

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  1. 2. a person not in the armed services or the police force.
  2. 5. Germany built new and larger ------ to punch holes in the British blockade,
  3. 7. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
  4. 8. the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945.
  5. 9. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as
  6. 13. commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945
  7. 15. an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military.
  8. 16. a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base on Sunday, December 7, 1941
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  1. 1. created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language
  2. 3. also called atom bomb, weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of a heavy element such as plutonium or uranium.
  3. 4. This practice—skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance
  4. 6. a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada
  5. 10. the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force
  6. 11. Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States.
  7. 12. Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945
  8. 14. a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race