Chapter 13 Sec 2
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- Yalta Conference
- Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin discussed plans to end WWII
- Harry Truman
- vice president under FDR. When FDR died at the beginning of his 4th term, this man became president
- V-E Day
- May 8, 1945..Victory in Europe Day when war in Europe was finally over
- Holocaust
- the systematic killing by Germans during WWII of about 6 million Jews as well as millions from other ethnic groups
- D Day
- June 6, 1944..the day the Allies invaded Normandy, France during WWII
- Battle of the Bulge
- a month long battle of WWII in which the Allies turned back the last major German offensive of the war (occorred in the Ardennes Region in Luxemberg and Belgium
- Tuskegee Airmen
- consisted of African American pilots who served in North Africa and Italy also known as 99th Fighter Squadron
- Big Three
- Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
- Audie Murphy
- 20 year old American soldier who was the most decorated soldier of WWII and fought against the Germans in France
- Gerneral Erwin Rommel
- nicknamed "The Desert Fox' led German troops in northern Africa
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- an American general who landed in northern Africa to help the British fight against Rommel in Tuisia....he later became president of the US