| A | B |
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| Joesph Stalin | totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union |
| Aldolf Hiter | wanted to make a Third Reich - supported the Aryan Race |
| Nazism | government system characterized by militarism, nationalism, and extreme racism |
| Third Reich | the empire that Hitler wanted to start |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy |
| Fascism | type of totalitarian government characterized by nationalism and militarism |
| Hideki Tojo | military dictator of Japan |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 - countries agree to no longer use war to solve differences - didn't work |
| Tripartite Pact | formed the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan |
| Neutrality Acts | leries of laws intended to keep US neutral and out of the war |
| Cash and Carry Policy | US agreed to sale non-military goods to countires if they paid cash and transported the goods on their own ships |
| Quarintine Speech | one of FDR's fireside chats that stated the US needed to get involved in the war to protect the world from agressor nations |
| Four-Freedoms | Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship - |
| Lend-Lease Act | Roosevelt's plan to make US the "arsenal of democracy" - US would provide goods to allies who were fighting |
| Destroyers for Bases Agreement | US gave Britain 50 destroyers (ships) in exchange for military bases in the Carribean Sea |
| Blitzkrieg | Germany military tactic used when they invaded Poland - translates into lightening war |
| Battle of Britain | British Royal Airforce defeats the German airforce - prevents the invasion of Britain |
| Battle of Stalingrad | turning point in the European theatre - German advance is stopped |
| Operation Torch | allied invasion of N. Africa and Italy |
| George S. Patton | US commander who led Operation Torch |
| Operation Overlord | invasion of the beaches of Normandy; June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe - May 8, 1945 |
| V-J Day | Victory over Japan - August 15, 1945 |
| "Big Three" | US, Britain, and Soviet Union - main three allies during WWII |
| Atlantic Charter | meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt - determined post war goals - formed Anglo-Alliance - became basis for Charter of United Nations |
| Casablanca Conference | Allies decided to accept nothing but the "unconditional surrender" of the Axis Powers |
| Tehran Conference | Allies agree to open up a second front in the European theatre - leads to Operation Torch |
| Yalta Conference | Allies decied to divide Germany into occupation zones after the war - last meeting of "Big Three" |
| Potsdam Conference | Allies declare that they will only accept the unconditional surrender of Japan |
| Pearl Harbor | US Naval bases attacked on Dec. 7, 1941 - America enters the war |
| Chester Nimitz | Admiral in commmand of US forces in Pacific Theater |
| Battle of Midway | turning point in the war in the Pacific |
| Douglas MacArthur | US General that was forced from the Phillipines but vowed to return |
| Island Hopping | US strategy in the Pacific to push back the Japanese and win the war |
| Iwo Jima & Okinawa | Both are Japanese home islands - very tough fighting - US decides to drop atomic bombs based on high casualties in these battles |
| Manhattan Project | Top Secret US project that developed the Atomic Bomb - led by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Hiroshima | August 6, 1945 - "Little Boy" - Enola Gay drops the first bomb |
| Nagasaki | August 9, 1945 - "Fat Man" - second/last city hit with an atomic bomb |
| concentration camps | work & death camps created to eliminate European Jews |
| ghettos | neighborhoods where Jewish refugees were placed before being sent to concertration camps - they were moved to create "Lebensraum" or living space for Germans |
| Final Solution | Hitller/Nazi Germany's plan to rid the world of the Jewish people |
| euthanasia | to kill to eliminate suffering |
| Nuremberg War Trials | war crimes trials where Nazi were tried for "crimes against humanity" for their role in the Holocaust |
| Selective Service Act | the draft |
| War Productions Board | government agency that insured that US business converted to making things for the war effort |
| Office of Price Admninistration | set up rationing systems during the war |
| Rationing | limiting commodities to see that soldiers in the feild got the items that they needed |
| War Bonds | loans made to the federal government by the public to raise revenue to fund the war |
| Rosie the Riviter | fictional character created to encourage women to work in the war industries |
| Womens Army Corps (WAC) | started as the Womens Amy Auxiliary Corps or WAAC - women were enlisted in the Army in noncombat roles |
| Japanese Internment | executive order 9088 - Japanese Americans were removed from the west coast and placed in camps - proof that in time of war, civil rights can be limited |
| Korematsu v. United States | S.C. case that found that Japanese internment was constitutional |
