| A | B |
|---|
| London | Germany initiated nighttime bombing raids against this city |
| dictator | a leader with total authority |
| Luftwaffe | name of the German Air Force |
| Italy | This nation fought for the Allies in WWI |
| V-J Day (Sept 2, 1945) | Victory Japan! Japan surrenders. WWII is over! |
| Nagasaki | Second Japanese city hit by an atomic bomb |
| Hideki Tojo | Military leader in control of Japan |
| Holocaust | Mass murder of European Jews |
| Tokyo Rose | Her English language radio broadcasts were meant to discourage US soldiers stationed in the Pacific |
| swastika | Nazi emblem |
| U-boats | German submarines |
| Mein Kampf | Hitler's book about world domination |
| blitzkreig | "lightning war", quick strikes |
| Japan | country that bombed Pearl Harbor |
| Hirohito | emperor of Japan |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| Benito Mussolini | cruel, totalitarian dictator of Italy |
| Adolf Hitler | cruel, totalitarian dictator of Germany |
| Erwin Rommel | "Desert Fox", led German troops into Poland and Africa |
| 1939 | Year of Hitler's invasion of Poland which started WWII |
| Axis Powers | Japan, Italy, Germany (JIG) |
| Iron Curtain | Churchill's phrase to describe the deep division between Western Europe and USSR |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of England |
| neutrality/isolationism | America's policy at the beginning of WWII |
| totalitarian state | gov't with total, often violent control over its citizens |
| Dwight Eisenhower | American general who led Americans in Europe |
| Douglas MacArthur | American general who led Americans in the Pacific theater |
| France | Allied country that surrendered to Germany in 1940 |
| D-Day | code name for the Allied invasion of France to win France back from Germany (June 6, 1944) |
| Harry S. Truman | President after FDR died; decided to use atomic bombs against Japan |
| Enola Gay | B-29 bomber that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima |
| Joseph Stalin | cruel, totalitarian Communist leader of the Soviet Union |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol for women working during WWII |
| Little Boy | name given to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| Fat Man | name given to the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
| Manhatten Project | secret code name given to the project which developed the atomic bomb |
| WAAC's | organization of women who performed noncombat duties (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) |
| V-E Day | Germany surrenders! Victory in Europe (May 8, 1945) |
| December 7, 1941 | "a day that will live in infamy." Pearl Harbor |
| Navajo Codetalkers | Native Americans who used their language to develop an unpenetrable code for the Allies |
| island hopping | Allied strategy of capturing some Pacific island held by Japan, and skipping others |
| Fascism | Nationalistic Italian gov't that denied civil rights, used violence |
| Nazism | Hitler's totalitarian, violent, political party |
| Ethiopia and Albania | countries invaded by imperialistic Italy |
| Sudetenland, Austria, Czechoslovakia | countries invaded by Germany before WWII |
| Poland | country invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union |
| Manchuria/China | countries invaded by imperialistic Japan |
| Munich Conference | Great Britain, France meet with Hitler, who promises to take no more land |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | Germany and USSR agree to nonaggression and to divide Poland |
| appeasement | giving in to aggression in order to avoid conflict |
| collective farms | Stalin took land from poor farmers and forced them to work on state-run farms |
| Lend-Lease Act | March 1941, Congress agrees to sell war materials to Allies |
| rationing | Americans sacrificing and conserving food for the war effort |
| internment camps | fearing spies and disloyalty, American gov't forces Japanese-Americans to camps |
| Issei | Japanese Americans born in Japan |
| Nisei | Japanese Americans born in America to Japanese born parents |
| war bonds | certificates sold by the US gov't to finance the war |
| Normandy | French entry point for the D-Day invasion |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazis put on trial for war crimes |
| "victory gardens" | grown to relieve shortages of food during a time of sacrifice |
