| A | B |
|---|
| Joseph Stalin | dictator of the USSR during WWII |
| Harry Truman | VP for FDR, President at the end of WWII. He decided to drop the A-bomb. |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of England during WWII |
| Erwin Rommel | "Desert Fox". German general during WWII |
| Dwight Eisenhower | led Allied troops in Europe during WWII |
| Manhattan Project | code name given to efforts designed to develop the A-bomb |
| relocation centers | places where Japanese-Americans were forced to live during WWII |
| Dr. Charles Drew | black doctor who developed the blood bank. This helped save many lives. |
| Douglas MacArthur | General who led Allied troops to the Pacific Ocean |
| rationing | government makes sure everyone gets a fair share of certain goods |
| War Production Board | government department that controlled what factories made. |
| Women during WWII | took jobs in factories, flew supplies to troops, served in military as nurses, desk jobs. |
| Hilter growing up | failure |
| First country to fall to fascism | Italy |
| Hitler's idol | Mussolini |
| Appeasement | giving into a threat or demand to keep peace |
| mobilization | getting your country prepared to fight |
| Dunkirk | 300,000 British troops miraculously rescued from Nazi advance |
| Battle of Britain | turning point in war. Britain refuses to surrender despite constant German attack |
| Non-Aggression Pact | Germany and Russia agree not to fight with each other and to split Poland |
| Japanese-Americans | sent to relocation camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbolism of American women working in factories during WWII |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 Allies land on the beaches of Normandy, France and establish a 2nd front against Germany |
| Impact of A-bomb | devasting new weapon, some early scientist feared it may destroy the Earth |
| Truman's reasoning for dropping the A-bomb | end war quickly and save American lives |
| demilitarized zone | area within a country where no military is stationed |
| scorched Earth policy | Russia retreated and destroyed everything, setting a trap for Germany |
| dictator | ruler with absolute power in a country |
| island hopping | US strategy against Japan in the Pacific |
| National Socialist Workers Party | full name of Hitler's Nazi party |
| Munich Conference | infamous peace where England and France made the mistake of appeasing Germany by giving them land |
| Battle of Midway | US begins to turn the tide in the Pacific War. |
| Japanese Aggression | started with their attack on Manchuria for natural resources |
| How the war started | German blitzkreig rolls into Poland |
| Allies and their leaders | USA-FDR, Britain-Churchill, Russia-Stalin |
| Axis Powers and their leaders | Germany-Hitler, Italy-Mussolini, Japan-Hirohito |
| The Holocaust | Hitler & Nazi Germany use an assembly line to murder millions of European Jews |
| rationing | saving food and resources by having people use only limited amounts |
