| demilitarization | | a mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II |
| Winston Churchill | | devastated over 400,000 people in Japan, ended World War II |
| genocide | | a system of fortifications along France's border with Germany |
| Battle of Midway | | a reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons |
| Atlantic Charter | | Pacific Naval General during World War II who lost several battles until a decisive victory at Guadalcanal |
| democratization | | June 6, 1944, the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during World War II |
| Kristallnacht | | city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live |
| ghetto | | during World War II Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them |
| Battle of Stalingrad | | event during World War II where 70,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war were forced to march 50 miles to a prison camp and only 54,000 returned |
| Aryan | | Japanese General who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Douglass MacArthur | | British Prime Minister during World War II |
| Maginot Line | | the German peoples who formed a "master race" |
| Holocaust | | the systematic killing of an entire people |
| Battle of the Bulge | | a declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and US president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War II was based |
| Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | | the process of creating a government elected by the people |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | | a series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of rules of war, and crimes against humanity |
| non-aggression pact | | naval base in Hawaii that was attacked on December 7, 1941 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | | a series of battles between German and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941 |
| blitzkrieg | | "lightning war", a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces |
| Bataan Death March | | US General who led troops in North Africa and Normandy, France. Later became president |
| Erwin Rommel | | an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another |
| Nuremberg Trials | | Hitler's program systematically killing the entire Jewish people |
| kamikaze | | a 1942 sea and air battle of World War II, in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific |
| Battle of Britain | | a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which Allied troops drove Japanese forces from the Pacific island of Guadalcanal |
| Final Solution | | a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union |
| Pearl Harbor | | "Night of Broken Glass", the night of November 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany |
| D-Day | | a 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War II |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | | Nazi General who led forces in North Africa, known as the Desert Fox |
