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6World War II (1937-1945)

Key Terms:

kamikaze a Japanese suicide pilot napalm a type of jellied gasoline, used to create bombs that cause large fires after they

explode

Alliances

Allies

UK, USSR, US, China

Axis

Germany, Italy, Japan

Generals

Douglas MacArthur

Dwight Ike Eisenhower

Technology

Aircraft carriers

Bombers: B-17, B-29

Manhattan Project

Pacific Theater

Japanese take Philippines (1942)

Bataan Death March

Battle of Midway (1942) turning point

Island-hopping strategy

General Douglas McArthur retakes

Philippines

European Theater

Battle of Stalingrad (1942-3)

Casablanca Conference (1943)

Invasion of Italy (1943)

D-Day (1944)

Battle of the Bulge (1944)

Terror bombings

V-E Day

Ending the War, 1945

Yalta Conference (Feb.)

April: Roosevelt dies, Harry Truman is

president

August: USSR invades Japan

August: atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima

(Aug. 6) and Nagasaki

(Aug. 9)

V-J Day (Aug. 15)