| A | B |
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| Allied Countries | Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, U.S. |
| Axis Countries | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Big Three | Stalin, Churchill & Roosevelt |
| Concentration Camps | prison camps established by Hitler/Nazis for Jews & other political prisoners |
| D-Day | Invasion of Normandy, France by Allies 6/6/1944 |
| Another name for D-Day | Operation Overlord |
| Dictator | person who has complete power & authority over a country |
| Dwight Eisenhower | supreme commander of the Allied forces during the war |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city on which the first atomic bomb was dropped |
| Adolf Hitler | dictator of Germany during WWII |
| Holocaust | mass murder of European Jews & others by Hitler/Nazis |
| Homefront | U.S. mainland during WWII |
| Jews | people persecuted by Hitler because of their religion |
| Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy during WWII |
| Nagasaki | Japanese city on which 2nd atomic bomb was dropped during WWII |
| Nazis | Hitler's political party - National Socialist German Worker's Party |
| Pearl Harbor | American base in Hawaii that was bombed by Japanese planes |
| Reason U.S. entered WWII | Bombing at Pearl Harbor |
| ration | limiting amounts of food, gas, and other goods to each person |
| Relocation or Internment Camps | Camps in U.S. where Japanese Americans were detained after Pearl Harbor was bombed |
| Franklin Roosevelt | 32nd President of the U.S., elected 4 times |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol of American women who went to work in factories during WWII |
| Joseph Stalin | dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929-1953 |
| swastika | emblem on the Nazi flag |
| General Hideki Tojo | military dictator who controlled Japan during WWII |
| Harry S. Truman | became 33rd President of the US after FDR died |
| veteran | soldier who returns home from war |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day when Germany surrendered |
| V-J Day | Victory in Japan Day when Japan surrendered |
| War bonds | certificates sold by U.S. gov't to pay for the war |
| Reason for Stock Market Crash of 1929 | More people wanted to sell stocks than buy stocks |
| New Deal | FDR's program that gave thousands jobs during the Great Depression |
| America's role in WWII before Pearl Harbor | Neutral, yet sending supplies to the Allies |
| Hoovervilles | Towns of shacks (named after Pres.Hoover) that homeless people of the Great Depression had to live in |
| Soup and bread lines | Where some Americans got food during the Great Depression |
| Works Progress Administration | Agency under the New Deal that built roads, airports, and public buildings |
| hydroelectric dams | built under New Deal to produce electricity |
| Poland | First country Germany invaded beginning WWII |
