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| fascicm | a political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of the fascist National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi Party) |
| Nazi party | the National Socialist German Workers' Party; came to power under Adolf Hitler in the 1930's |
| Joseph Stalin | successor to Lenin in Russia; govt. tried to control every aspect of life in the nation |
| Axis | Germany, Italy, and their allies during World War II |
| appeasement | the granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace |
| Land-Lease Act | a 1941 law that allowed the United States to ship arms and supplies, without immediate payment to nations fighting the Axis powers |
| Pearl Harbor | a naval base in Hawaii that was hit in a surprise attack by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American General in WW II |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day the Allies invaded France during WW II |
| Battle of the Bulge | a month-long battle of WW II in which the Allies turned back the last major German offensive of the war |
| Yalta Conference | in 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin discussed plans for the end of WW II and the future of Europe |
| Holocaust | the systematic killing by Germany during WW II of about six million Jews as well as millions from other ethnic groups |
| Bataan Death March | in 1942, the Japanese marched 70,000 Filipino and American soldiers 60 miles to a prison camp |
| Battle of Midway | a victory for the US over the Japanese in a 1942 naval battle that was a turning point of WW II |
| island hopping | a WW II strategy in which the Allies invaded islands that the Japanese weakly defended in order to stage further attacks |
| Manhattan Project | the top-secret program set up in 1942 to build an atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima | the first city in Japan that was hit by an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 |
| War Production Board | an agency established during WW II coordinate the production of military suppplies by US industries |
| rationing | distributing a fixed amount of a certain item |
| Rosie the Riveter | an image of a strong woman hard at work at an arms factory during WW II |
| A. Philip Randolph | an African-American labor leader who helped African Americans achieve equal rights in the workplace |
| bracero program | the hiring of Mexicans to perform much-needed labor during WW2 |
| Japanese-American internment | an order signed in Feb, 1942, allowing for the removal of Japanese and Japanese Americans from the Pacific Ocean |
| Marshall Plan | approved in 1948, the US gave more than $13 billion to help the nations of Europe after WW II |
| G.I. Bill of Rights | passed in 1944, this bill provided educational and economic help to veterans |
| Nuremberg trials | the court proceedings held in Nurenberg, Germany, after WW II in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes |
| United Nations | an international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security and economic development |
