| A | B |
| totalitarian leader of Russia | Stalin |
| Leader of the Nazi party in Germany | Hitler |
| leader of the Facist party in Italy | Mussolini |
| Hitler's plan to take care of the "Jewish problem" | Final Solution |
| lacks natural resources; becomes aggresive and takes over Korea and parts of China | Japan |
| Passed to keep the U.S. out of war and limiting ties to other nations | Neutrality Acts |
| American relations with Latin America | Good Neighbor Policy |
| Britain and France give in to Hitler's demands at the Munich Conference; giving in to aggression to avoid war | Appeasement |
| German word for "lightening war," used all their might to take Poland | Blitzkrieg |
| Germany, Italy and Japan | Axis Powers |
| France, Britain, the USSR, and later the U.S. | Allied Powers |
| allows sale and loans of war goods to any country the President feels is protecting the defense of the U.S. | Lend-Lease Act |
| Japan attacks the U.S. here on Dec. 7, 1941- U.S. enters the war | Pearl Harbor |
| The U.S. refuses to sell supplies to Japan | embargo |
| U.S. government controls what products are made in our factories | War Production Board |
| people sent food to troops | victory gardens |
| becomes a symbol of the power of women to pick up where the men left off in the workforce | Rosie the Riveter |
| black and white soldiers served in separate regimes | segregation |
| successful African American air team in the war | Tuskagee airmen |
| Japanese Americans were put in interment camps | relocation camps |
| U.S. victory against Japan; turning point in war | Battle of Midway |
| American general during the war; later elected President of the U.S. | Dwight Eisenhower |
| 1944; invasion of Normandy; Paris was liberated by the Allied forces | D-Day |
| becomes President after Roosevelt's death; issues orders to drop the atomic bomb on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) | Harry Truman |
| American war strategy to control the Pacific Ocean | island hopping |
| Japanese suicide fighter pilots | kamikaze |
| the slaughter of European Jews by the Nazis | Holocaust |
| after the war, Nazi and Japanese leaders were put on trial for war crimes | Nuremberg Trials |