| A | B |
|---|
| dictator | a ruler who has complete power over a country |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of Soviet Union |
| totalitarian state | single party controls the government and every aspect of people's lives |
| colective farms | run by government, no ownership of land by private individuals |
| Nationalism | extreme pride in country, cause of war |
| Benito Mussolini | leader of Italy, lead Fascist Party |
| aggression | warlike act by one country against another |
| Haile Selassie | leader of Ethiopia, invaded by Italy |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of Germany, lead Nazi Party |
| concentration camps | used as prison for civilians who were considered enemies of Germany |
| Neutrality Acts | laws banned arms sales or loans to countries at war, U.S. hoped it would keep it out of a war |
| Good Neighbor Policy | established friendly relations in Latin America, canceled the Platt Amendment, with drew troops from Latin America |
| Munich Conference | Hitler promised that Germany would seek no further territory once it acquired the Sudetenland, to keep peace Britain & France gave in to Hitler |
| appeasment | to give in to the demands of a dictator to avoid war |
| annex | to add on to |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | Agreement between Russia and Germany, they agreed not to attack each other when Germany invaded Poland and Russia would get some of Poland as a reward |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war, used by Germany |
| Winston Churchill | leader of Great Britain |
| Franklin Roosevelt | leader of United States during WW 2 |
| Harry Truman | leader of U.S. at end of WW2, had to make decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan |
| Lend-Lease Act | allowed sales or loans of war materials to "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States", sent airplanes, tanks, guns and ammunition to Great Britain |
| Atlantic Charter | set goals for post war, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to seek no land gain from the war, support self-government, and a peace-keeping organization to be created |
| December 7, 1941 | attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, U.S. enters WW 2 |
| September 1, 1939 | invasion of Poland by Germany, WW 2 begins in Europe |
| Axis | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allied | Great Britain, France, China, Canada, and 45 other countries, later the U.S. joins |
| ration | to limit |
| victory gardens | 20 million planted to help save food |
| segregation | separation, races were seperated in the military durng World War 2 |
| relocation camps/interment camps | U.S. government moved 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes to barbed wired camps |
| Navajo code-talkers | Native American tribe that used its own language to send vital messages, never broken by Japan |
| Douglas MacArthur | leader of U.S. military in Pacific war |
| Battle of Midway | turning point in Pacific war |
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day, invasion of Normandy France |
| island hopping | campaign to capture some Japanese held islands and skipping over others while pushing towards Japan |
| August 14, 1945 | V-J Day--End of WW 2 in Pacific |
| May 8, 1945 | V-E Day--End of WW 2 in Europe |
| kamikaze | Japnaese pilots carried out suicide missions |
| Holocaust | slaughter of European Jews by Nazi government |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | leader of D-Day invasion |
| fascism | extreme nationalism and racism, popular in Italy during WW 2 |
| anti-Semitism | hatred of Jews; view held by Nazi Party |
| Nazi Party | political party of Hitler; believed German people superior to all other people |
| disarmament | give up military weapons |
| mobilization | preparations for war: military and civilian |
| genocide | wiping out of an entire group of people |
| Manhattan Project | secret operation when the U.S. created the atomic bomb |
| neutral | not taking sides; U.S. position when WW 2 started |
| Poland | invaded by Hitler Sept. 1939; war declared by Great Britian and France |
| Maginot Line | string of steel-and-concrete bunkers along the German border from Belgium to Switzerland |
| internment camp | uncomfortable places that the Japanese Americans were relocated to |
| Atlantic Charter | plan for the post-WW2 peace: self-determination, disarmament, peace keeping organization |
| Lend-lease Act | allowed US to give equiptment and war supplies to Allies |
| totalitarian | single party with a leader that suppresses all opposition and has total control |
| fascism | party of Italy-extreme nationalism |
