| A | B |
|---|
| Joseph Stalin | fascist dictator of the Soviet Union |
| Benito Mussolini | fascist dictator of Italy |
| Adolf Hitler | fascist dictator of Germany |
| Britain | this nation won the Battle of Britain |
| Neville Chamberlain | this British prime minister signed the Munich Pact |
| Munich Pact | agreement with Germany regarding Czechoslovakia, signed by Neville Chamberlain |
| Pact | Agreement |
| Battle of Britain | the result of this led Hitler to call of the invasion of Britain |
| blitzkrieg | German word for "lightning war" |
| lightning war | blitzkrieg |
| Poland | this nation was the first country to be invaded and taken over by Germany |
| nonagression pact | prior to the invasion of Poland, this is what Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to |
| Poland | this nation ceased to exist after it was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union |
| Germany | this country invaded Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg |
| appeasement | by signing the Munich Pact, Britain and France agreed to take this policy toward German aggression |
| Winston Churchill | about the Munich Pact, he said, "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have war." |
| France | the terms of surrender forced on this nation included German occupation of the northern part of the country and the establishment of a Nazi-controlled puppet government in the southern part |
| Kristallnacht | the night of broken glass |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | this allowed nations to buy American armaments as long as they pay cash and carry the goods home on their own ships |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Lend-Lease Act | allows the president to loan or "rent" arms to "any country whose defense is vital to the US" |
| Atlantic Charter | secretly drafted by Churchill and Roosevelt aboard a warship off the coast of Newfoundland |
| Hideki Tojo | prime minister of Japan |
| Japan | Hideki Tojo was this nation's prime minister during WWII |
| Pearl Harbor | site of a surprise attack on the US by Japan |
| Pearl Harbor | the US declared war on Japan after this event |
| Japan | Germany and Italy declared war on the US after the US declared war on this country |
| Manhattan Project | this is what the atomic bomb program came to be called |
| Office of Price Administration | this was created by Congress to fight the threat of inflation |
| Selective Service System | this instituted the draft and eventually mustered ten million soldiers |
| rationing | this was the method used to decrease the use of scarce and essential wartime goods |
| Nisei | this term refers to Japanese Americans who were born in the USA |
| George Marshall | this Army Chief of Staff pushed for the formation of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps |
| WAAC's | the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps |
| War Production Board | this assumed the responsibility for converting industry from peacetime to wartime production and distributing raw materials to key industries |
| Office of Scientific Research and Development | this was responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development of "wonder drugs" such as penicillin that saved countless lives |
| Harry S. Truman | FDR's vice president |
| V-E Day | this day marked the end of the war in Europe |
| Majdanek | this death camp was the first liberated by the Allies |
| D-Day | this day marked the invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe |
| Operation Torch | this included the invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa |
| George Patton | this American General led the troops that liberated Paris from German occupation |
| Battle of the Bulge | the initial success of this German offensive battle was due mainly to the Allies' being caught off guard |
| kamikazes | Japanes suicide pilots |
| Midway | turning point in the war in the Pacific |
| Hiroshima | site the first atomic bomb was dropped on |
| Harry Truman | president who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb |
