| A | B |
|---|
| Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of the Soviet Union |
| totalitarian | Government that has complete control of its citizens and putss down all oppisition |
| Benito Mussolini | Facist dictator of Italy |
| facism | Political system based on a strong, centalized government headed by a dictator |
| Nazism | political philosophy of Germany under Nazi dictator Hitler |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi dictator of Germany |
| Neutrality Acts | laws passed by Congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations at war |
| Neville Chamberlain | Prime minister of Great Britian who appeased Hitler before WWII |
| Winston Chruchill | Prime minister of Great Britian during WWII |
| appeasement | trying to pacify as aggressor in order to keep the peace. |
| nonaggression pact | Agreement between Germany and Russia not to fight each other |
| blitzkrieg | lighning war strategy used by Germany |
| Charles de Gaulle | Fr. general who became head of the French govt. in exile in England |
| Axis Powers | Germany Italy, and Japan |
| Allies | U.S., Br. , Soviet Union |
| Nisei | Japanese born in the US |
| rationing | Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American General became Supreme Allied Commander |
| George Patton | American General who helped liberate Paris |
| Harry S Truman | President who succeeded FDR |
| Battle of the Bulge | German counteroffensive; Germany's last defeat |
| V-E Day | May 8, 1945; Victory over Europe |
| Douglas MacArthur | American commander in the Philippines |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide plane |
| Manhattan Project | Secret project to develop the atomic bomb |
| Robert Oppenheimer | Scientist who led the Manhattan Project |
| Hiroshima | city was the site of the first atomic bomb dropped in Japan |
| Nagasaki | Japanese city that was the site of the second atomic-bomb drop |
| Yalta Conference | Secret meeting of FDR, Stalin, and Churchill |
| United Nations | nternational organziation formed in 1945 |
| Nuremberg Trials | Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes |
| D-Day | Allied invasion to liberate Europe |
| Weimar Republic | Democratic govt. of Germany set up after WWI |
| Holocaust | Systematic murder of 11million Jews and other people in Europe by the Nazis |
| Kristallnacht | name givent to 11-9-38 when the Nazis attacked Jews, their businesses and their synagogues |
| genocide | Deliberate and systematic killing of an entire race of people |
| concentration camp | where the Nazis starved the Jews , work camps, experiments etc |
| internment camp | Japanese Americans were put in the central US locations |
