| A | B |
|---|
| dictator | Leader who gains control over an entire country |
| fascism | government where individual freedoms are denied and complete power is given to the government |
| Franklin Roosevelt | President at the beginning of WWII |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain |
| Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy |
| Adolf Hitler | Dictator of Germany |
| Axis Powers | Germany Italy and Japan |
| Allied Powers | United States Soviet Union Great Britain and France |
| Lend-Lease | Us gave supplies to Great Britain without getting involved in the war |
| Pearl Harbor, HI | Japanese surprise attack to hurt the American fleet |
| Joseph Stalin | Dictator of Soviet Union |
| Hideki Tojo | Dictator of Japan |
| Jobs women Preformed | factory workers, nurses, radio operators, pilots |
| rationing | doing without as much food |
| Tuskegee Airmen | highly trained african american fighter pilots |
| Executive Order #9066 | Japanese Americans were sent to relocation camps because they were seen as a threat to the US |
| Manhattan Project | Effort to build the atomic bomb |
| Battle of Midway | United States weakened the Japanese fleet in the Pacific |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Soviet Union army was forced to Germans to retreat from the city |
| D-Day | Largest sea invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France |
| Battle of the Bulge | Largest battle US fought in |
| Hiroshima, Japan | place 1st atomic bomb was dropped |
| Nagaski, Japan | 2nd place atomic bomb was dropped |
| Harry Truman | President of the United States at the end of WWII |
| Holocaust | mass murder of million of Jews and others |
| concentration camps | Place where Jews were taken, imprisioned and murdered |
| Anne Frank | Jewish girl who kept a diary during the Holocausr while in hiding |
| V-J Day | Victory in Japan- Japan Surrendered |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe- Germany Surrendered |
