A - Alliances
B - Britain
C - Courage
D - D-day
E - End of two sides
of the war
F - Franklin Roosevelt
G - Guadalcanal
H - Hitler
I - Island-hopping
J - Jump zone
K - Kamikaze
L - Liberation of the Philippines
M - Marshall Plan
N - Nuremberg trials
O - Okinawa
P- Potsdam Conference
Q - Quebec Conference
R - Rationing
S - Stalingrad
T - Two sides of WWII
U - U-boat
V - V-mail
W - World War II
Y - Yank
Z - Zeppelin
Table of Contents:

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Alliances - an agreement that two or more states support each other in war. This is one of the reasons that WWII started; Russia wanted to protect Serbia but Germany didn't want that. So they fought Russia, making the war get bigger.

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Britain - a country who had became part of the war in September 3, 1939, when Hitler took over Poland, Britain and France, agreeing to have a war on Germany. They were part of the Yalta Conference, where they were going to take a piece of Germany and Austria.

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Courage - Franklin Roosevelt putting the U.S into WWII against Japan and Germany after Germany worked with Japan's leader, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to attack Pearl Harbor.
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D-day - an operation that got land and sea forces fighting, creating the largest invasion in human history. This was going to change the control Nazi Germany had over to the Allies, resulting the Nazi Germany to surrender less than a year after the invasion. Was also called "Operation Neptune".

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End of two sides of the war - The Axis Powers lost the war with Europe unconditionally
surrendered (gave up from a threat by the Allies) on May 7, 1945. While the Pacific surrendered in September 2, 1945 after the bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August.
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Franklin Roosevelt - a leader of the United States of America during WWII, who got their economy ready and supported them in war and also started the Lend-Leash program and made defeating Germany first over Japan. He was also part of the Tehran Conference, where they planned to take over Northern Europe and agreed to join the war against Japan, along with the loss of the Axis Powers in Europe.
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Guadalcanal - a military campaign or competition where the Japanese troops fought the Allies so that they could capture the Guadalcanal and surround Austria. They failed and left the Guadalcanal, leaving the land and victory to the Allies which helped for other victories to come in the Solomon Islands.
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Hitler - one of the most powerful dictators who fought to take total power of Germany in 1933. He made a book called Mein Kampf with the Nazi ideology that the German people were pure breeds of the ancient Aryans. He was also created the Holocaust, which was a group of people who were against people of color, homosexuals, Jews, disabled or mentally ill, and many more that weren't naturally German.
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Island-hopping - ones of General MacArthur's plans to destroy Japan's military and it was to go after or "hop" for small, weaker islands that were close to Japan and attack them with bombs. That way, he could quickly make the more stronger islands, weaker because they can't get to their supplies.
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Jump zone - a safe place for troops to land on during WWII. It was also used to train the troops to get them ready when they jump out of aircrafts by parachuting into a mission and attacking from above.
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Kamikaze - a self-death or suicidal bombing technique the Japanese use to destroy the enemies warships. They would crash them with a plane filled with deadly bombs, which caused the Japanese lose since they've lost a lot of airplanes and good pilots.
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Liberation of the Philippines - a battle where the Japanese took over Manila. Douglas MacArthur lead the Filipinos and fought next to the American soldiers in the Battle of Bataan. There was at least 250,000 Filipinos that was with American forces when the war happened.
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Marshall Plan - a program that was supported by the U.S that was used to bring back 17 western and southern European countries to protect them from what happens after the war. Joseph Stalin signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression pact to keep peace with Germany while making his military stronger without them knowing. He didn't agree with the Marshall plan so he made a Soviet Plan.
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Nuremberg trials - a list of trails that was made in Nürnberg, Germany. It was used to uncover Germans leadership for supporting the Nazi dictatorship. 24 were sentences to death, 20 in prison for life, and 98 in a sentenced prison out of 177.
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Okinawa - a major battle also called "Operation Iceberg" was fought in the Pacific, with the United States Army and United States Marine Crops Forces fighting the Imperial Japanese Army. Taking over Okinawa would mean that the Allies would have an airbase where they could hit Japan and a strong port for the Allied Fleets.
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Potsdam Conference - the final meeting where the Allies plan out their invasion for Germany and agreed to take away their military weaponry. Harry Truman, a man who has made a big move and dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and Winston Churchill, a leader who made the British people stronger and led his country from a close defeat to victory were both part of the conference after Roosevelt died in 1945.
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