| A | B |
|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | US President elected to a third term in 1940 |
| Munich Conference | French and British leaders agreed to give Hitler the Sudentenland |
| Blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| War Production Board | oversaw conversion of factories to war production |
| Selective Training and Service Act | required all men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register for the draft |
| Battle of Stalingrad | important Soviet victory over the Germans |
| D Day | day of the Allied landing at Normandy |
| Battle of Midway | naval defeat that left Japan on the defensive for the rest of the war |
| Holocaust | Nazi Germany's systematic attempt to kill athe Jews of Europe |
| Enola Gay | plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
| Allie Powers beg. of WWII | France and Britain |
| Axis Powers | Germany and Japan |
| Lend Lease Act | Congress passed loat of weapons and war supplies to Britain |
| Pearl Harbor | Japanese attack on American Naval base |
| Solar radar | helped ALlies fight the war in the Atlantic |
| island hopping | work towards getting bases to attack Japan |
| kamikazee | tatic was to crash piloted planes into Allied ships |
| atomic bomb | Manhattan project |
| concentration camps | Jews imprisoned by Hitler |
| Dunkirk | British troops evacuated thousands of soliders from Dunkirk and shipped thema cross the English channel |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | set minimum wage, max. workweek and banned employment of children under age of 16 |
| Yalta Conference | meeting at which Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin made plans for the postwar world |
| Potsdam Conference | meeting at which Churchill Truman and Stalin agreed to divide both Germany and Berlin into four zones |
| Truman Doctrine | policy stating that the US would provide economic ad to help other nations fight communism |
| Marshall Plan | US aid to rebuild Europe after WWII |
| GI Bill of Rights | offered veterans educational benefits and affordable home and business loans |
| Taft Hartley Act | outlawed closed shops and required union leaders to take an oath saying that they were not Communists |
| Long March | 6,000 mile 12 month retreat by Chinese Communists to escape nationalist army attack |
| 38th parallel | line of latitude dividing North and South Korea |
| McCarthyism | making serious accusations without providing proof |
| Army McCarthy hearings | televised Senate investigation of claims that there were Communists in the US military |
| United Mine Workers | stike came to an end only after a federal court fined the union 3.5 million |
| Nuremberg Trials | 21 Nazi leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity |
| Mao ZeDong | 1949 Chinese Communists drove the Nationalists to the island of Taiwan and founded People's Republic of China |
| Israel | independent Jewish nation May 1948 |
| Cold War | struggle between the US and Soviet Union for global power |
| Fair Deal | plan for reforms such as higher minimum wage and national health insurance |
| Korean War | first time UN forces fought in a major conflict |
| Red Scare | popular culture reflected many Americans' fear of communism |
| Battle of Coral Sea | l942 clash notrheast of Australia in which US forces stopped the Japanese advance for the first time |
| Battle of El Alamein | British victory in Egypt that stopped German advance through North Africa |
| Maginot Line | fortified wall that France built along its border with Germany |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | largest naval engagement in history, which ended in a decisive defeat for Japan |
| Battle of Atlantic | long fight between Germany and the Allied Powers for control of ocean trade routes |
| Battle of Britain | German and British air forces fight for air supremacy |
| braceros | Mexican workers authorized by US gov. to enter US during WWII |
| Bataan Death March | forced march of tens of thousands of Am. and Filipino prisoners during WWII to internment camps |
| containment | US policy to control the spread of communism by reacing quickly to Soviet backed aggression |
| Dixiecrats | Nickname of the States' Rights Party; joined by southern Democrtas upset with Truman's civil rights policies |
| blacklisting | refusing to hire suspected Communists |
| GI Bill of Rights | offered verterans educational benefits and affordable home and business loans |
| Army McCarthy hearings | tv hearings investigating McCarthy's charges that there were communists in the US military |
