| A | B |
|---|
| winston churchill | prime minister of great britain during WWII |
| emperor hirohito | japanese thought of him as divine |
| douglas macarthur | directed post-war occupation of japan |
| george marshall | proposed a plan that provided $13 bil in relief 2 Europe |
| joseph stalin | leader of soviet union during WWII |
| adolf hitler | nazi dictator known as fuhrer |
| FD Roosevelt | proclaimed Pearl Harbor was a day that will live in infamy |
| benito mussolini | il duce, leader of the first fascist state |
| harry truman | became president when FDR died and decided to use atomic bomb |
| dwight d eisenhower | commander of D-Day invasion |
| fascism | political movement that emphasized autocratic and nationalist policies |
| kamikaze | japanese suicide missions |
| genocide | systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group |
| anti-semitism | hostility towards jews |
| armed aggression | wars of conquest |
| final solution | the use of extermination camps and gas chambers by Nazis against Jews |
| blitzreig | sudden massive attacks or lightning war |
| island-hopping | military strategy used by allies in pacific against japanese |
| August 6 1945 | first atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima |
| Nagasaki | city where 2nd atomic bomb was dropped |
| December 7th 1941 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
| June 6th 1945 | D-Day, Allies stormed beaches of Normandy |
| United Nations | international peace-keeping organization founded after WWII |
| marxists | social democrats who gained political power during the Russian Revolution subdivisions: bolsheviks and mensheviks |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | peace conference between germany and russia |
| New Economic Policy | launched by Stalin, a compromise with capitalism |
| ultimatum | a set of final conditions |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | alliance before WWII between Italy and Germany |
| Advantages of British in Battle of Britain | tracking system (radar) and decoding machine (ultra) |
| May 8th, 1945 | germans surrendered unconditionally, Victory in Europe, or V-E Day |
