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World War II Names Still In Our Vocabulary Part Four - The Bloody Iwo Jima Memorial The Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Virginia is a tourist landmark for all that come to the Washington DC area every year. A hotel nearby is even named "The Iwo Jima." After one of the bloodiest battles in American history, Iwo has been returned to the postwar Japanese Empire. This article sketches the Flag Raising of which the Iwo Jima Memorial symbolizes. World War II Names Still In Our Vocabulary -Part One - The Lenin Mausoleum World War II didn't happen all at once. It didn't happen even in one place. It started to gain its momentum on many sides on our planet. Each event added a little more to the powder keg. In 1939, the powder keg ignited. In August 1945, the powder keg turned into the nuclear bomb. It not only changed the map. It changed our vocabulary as well. World War II Names Still In Our Vocabulary - The U-Boat 505 This is the story of the capture of the U-505 in the Battle Of The Atlantic. No ship in World War II was as feared as the German U-Boat. The tale of how the US Navy brought one of these U-Boats to the surface and then captured it by sending a boarding party is a thriller indeed. World War II Names Still In Our Vocabulary - Part Three - The Blitz In football, we hear the term "blitz." This is where the defense brings up everybody to go after the quarterback. If the poor guy is lucky, he will escape from getting sacked. But where did the term "blitz" come from? World War II Names Still In Our Vocabulary - Part Six - The Kamikaze In the closing months of World War II, a new and deadly form of warfare came into being. This involved the attacker committing suicide in order to cause the enemy to sustain a massive loss of life. This tactic of warfare has not subsided. It now is the basis of terrorism.