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6th-WWII Part 4
Vocab. for Topic 14, Lesson 4
Term | Definition |
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Battle of Midway | a 1942 battle in the Pacific during which American planes sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers |
Operation Overlord | the code name of for the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944 |
Battle of the Bulge | a German counterattack in Dec. 1944 that temporarily slowed the Allied invasion of Germany |
island-hopping | Allied strategy of capturing Japanese-held islands to gain control of the Pacific |
death camps | the camps where people were systematically murdered |
Holocaust | the slaughter of Europe's Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII |
Nuremberg Trials | the Nazi war crimes trials held in 1945 and 1946 |
encounter | to meet or come upon |
vary | to range or differ |