| A | B |
|---|
| Adolf Hitler | dictator of Germany..blamed it's problems on the Jews |
| Japan | Emperor Hirohito |
| Winston Churchill | prime minister of Great Britain |
| Benito Mussolini | fascist leader of Italy |
| Axis powers | Germany, Italy and Japan |
| Allied powers | France, Great Britain and the United States and Russia |
| Nazi party | National Socialist German Workers Party |
| Anti-Semitism | hatred towards Jews |
| Rhineland | section of western Germany from which the Treaty of Versailles excluded German forces after W.W.I |
| appeasement | to keep peace by giving into someones demands |
| Pearl Harbor | "The Day of Infamy" December 7th 1941 |
| Lend-Lease Act | U.S. provided war supplies to Great Britain and they would worry about payment later |
| blitzkrieg | "lightning war" German's sudden military attacks by land and air |
| Battle of the Bulge | Germans pushed back allies creating a bulge in the front lines |
| Normandy/ D-Day | largest amphibious invasion aimed to drive Germany out of France |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of communist Russia |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | U.S. military leader in charge of Operation Torch in North Africa and the D-Day invasion in Normandy |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. military leader in the pacific theater |
| holocaust | Nazi execution of 6 milllion Jews and five million other in extermination camps |
| GI | term used to identify American soldiers |
| WAC | Women Army Corps |
| Manhattan Project | secret project that created the first atomic bomb |
| Robert Oppenheimer | physicist who spearheaded the Manhattan Project |
| Interim Committee | government leaders and scientists who studied the question of using the atomic bomb on Japan |
| Harry S. Truman | president after FDR's death, that decided to use the Atomic bomb on Japan |
| FDR | only U.S. president to be elected to 4 consecutive terms, and was the president during W.W.II |
| Enola Gay | plane that dropped the first atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima | where the first atomic bomb was dropped |
| cost -plus system | government paid all development and production cost on anything a company made for the war |
| rationing | distribution of goods in a limited amount during war time:such as sugar, coffee, meats, and gasoline |
| Rosie the Riveter | fictional young women used in propaganda during war to get women to get involved in wartime effortss |
| propaganda | used during war to spread or promote certain information or ideas to instill patriotism |
| japanese internment camps | relocation of more than 110,000 Japanese Americans |
| victory gardens | U.S. citizens were asked to grow their own food during W.W.II |
| island hopping | military strategy used by Allied forces in the pacific |
| Charles DeGaulle | leader of the free french |
| dictator | ruler who has complete power |
| Neutrality Acts | laws that banned arms sales or leans to countries in war |
| Fascist party | economic policy of Italy |
| totalitarian state | single part controls government and lives of people |
| Manchuria | Japan attacked this section of China to gain coal and iron |
| Austria | country annexed by Hitler |
| Munich Conference | Hitler assured European leaders that he would take no more territory |
| appeasement | to give in to aggression to avoid conflict--to make someone happy |
| Nazi Soviet Pact | Hitler and Stalin agreed not to attack each other |
| Sep. 1st 1939 | Hitler attacks Poland...start of W.W.II |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| Battle of Britain | German planes bombarded this island country |
| Dunkirk | Allied forces were trapped at this french port and British ships rescued them here |
| isolationism | stay out of foreign affairs...isolate ourselves |
| Battle of Midway | this battle severly hampered the Japanese offesnsive, |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazi leaders sentences to death for the war crimes |
| Auschwitz | concentration camp |
