U.S. History Unit 8.3 Vocabulary

Leader of the Soviet Union (Russia) during WWII.

• Benito Mussolini

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

Battle fought between the British and German air forces in the 

skies over England in 1940.

• Battle of the Bulge

• D-Day

• Battle of Britain

• Fall of Berlin

A group of African American convoy drivers that helped supply 

troops on the European front.

• Red Ball Express

• Harlem Hellfighters

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Doolittle's Raiders

Site of the surprise attack launched by the Japanese 

against the U.S. on December 7, 1941, which finally brought the U.S. into WWII.

• Normandy

• Midway

• Pearl Harbor

• Okinawa

Created and led the attack on Pearl Harbor.

• Hirohito

• Isoroku Yamamoto

• Emperor Showa

• Tojo Hideki

Government camps to which German, Italian, and Japanese 

citizens/residents in the U.S. were relocated to during the war for fear that they might aid the nation’s enemies.

• Holocaust

• Concentration Camps

• Bataan Death March

• Internment Camps

U.S. general who planned and commanded Allied 

forces during D-Day and the Allied march to Berlin which followed.

• George S. Patton

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Omar Bradley

• Douglas MacArthur

The German capital fell in April 1945, signaling the end of the war 

in Europe.

• Battle of Britain

• D-Day

• Fall of Berlin

• Operation Barbarossa

The systematic extermination of millions of Jews and others 

deemed “unfit to live” by the Nazis during WWII.

• Holocaust

• Concentration Camps

• Bataan Death March

• Internment Camps

Camps where Jewish people were imprisoned or killed.

• Holocaust

• Concentration Camps

• Bataan Death March

• Internment Camps