| A | B |
|---|
| Aryan racial state | Hitler's "perfect race"eg. blonde hair & blue eyes |
| appeasement | policy of Great Britain prior to WWII based on belief that if European states satisfied reasonable demands of unsatisfied powers that stability and peace would be achieved in Europe |
| blitzkrieg | "lightning war", war of great speed |
| unconditional surrender | absolute, unqualified surrender |
| Final Solution | Hitler's plan for mass extermination of the Jews |
| Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who would fly missions in which they crashed planes, dying, in order to achieve their mission. Means "divine wind" |
| Benito Mussolini | Leader of Italy |
| Josef Stalin | Leader of Russia |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | President of U.S. through majority of WWII |
| Harry S. Truman | took office of president of U.S. after Roosevelt died. Made decision to use atomic bomb on Japan |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American soldier who led many successful missions in Europe during WWII, primarily the Battle of Britain. Becomes a U.S. president later. |
| Robert Oppenheimer | one of the chief scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi leader of Germany during WWII |
| Manhattan Project | code name of the project that designed the first atomic bomb |
| Allied Powers of WWII | U.S., Great Britain, France, Russia |
| Axis Powers of WWII | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Pearl Harbor | naval base of Oahu, Hawaii that was bombed by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941, bringing U.S. into WWII |
| non-aggression pact | signed between Adolf Hitler(Germany) and Josef Stalin(Russia), promising Stalin the control of Eastern Poland and the Baltic |
| Countries Hitler invaded or threatened to invade in process of starting WWII | Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland |
| Hiroshima | the first Japanese city to be destroyed by the atomic bomb |
| Nagasaki | second Japanese city to be destroyed by atomic bomb |
