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isoroku yamamoto
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japanese admiral who decided that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed
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pearl harbor
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navy base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese
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battel of midway
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sea and air battle in which America forces defeated Japanese forces near Midway Island in the Oacific
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douglas macarthur
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U.S. general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific
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battle of guadalcanal
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six month battle on the island of Guadalcanal in which American and Australian troops defeated Japanese defenders
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aryans
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Germanic people
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holocaust
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systematic mass killing of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis
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kristallnacht
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night of broken glass when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany
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ghettos
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neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live
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final solution
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Hitler's plan to kill as many Jews as possible
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genocide
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systematic killing of an entire people
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dwight d. eisenhower
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American general who helped drive the germans out of Africa
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battle of stalingrad
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battle during which the Red Army forced the Germans out of stalingrad
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D-Day
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huge Allied invasion mounted to retake france from the Germans
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battle of the bulge
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final large scale attack by German troops that was forced back by the Allies
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kamikaze
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Japanese suicide pilots
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nuremberg trials
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trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity held in Nuremberg Germany
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demilitarization
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breaking down armed forces
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democratization
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process of creating a government elected by the people
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nonaggression pact
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agreement that says countries will not attack or invade one another
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blitzkrieg
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warfare in which surprise air attacks are followd be massive atytacks on land
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charles de gaulle
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leader of the french government in excile
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winston churchill
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leader of britain
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battle of britain
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battle of british and german air forces fough ogver britain during 1940-1941
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erwin rommel
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german general who led troops in north africa
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atlantic charter
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delaration of principles issued by winston churchill and franklin d. roosevelt in august 1941
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