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| Neutrality Acts | The United States passed these in the mid-1930s to avoid any involvement in a European war. |
| Joseph Stalin | The leader of the Soviet Union. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The president of the United States. |
| Axis Powers | Mainly Germany, Italy and Japan. |
| Allied Powers | Included Great Britain, France, the Soviet Unioun, China, the U.S., and 45 other nations. |
| blitzkrieg | A lightning war conducted by the Germans. |
| Winston Churchill | The prime minister of Great Britain during the war. |
| The London Blitz | The German Luffwaffe's air campaign against Great Britan began in August 1940 and lasted till June 1941. |
| Lend-Lease Act | This allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war materials to "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense to the U.S." |
| Atlatic Charter | Roosevelt and Churchill secretly met and set goals for the war-the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny-and for the postwar world. |
| Pearl Harbor | The Japanese succesfully attacked and disabled the American naval fleet on December 7th, 1941. |
| genocide | deliberate murder |
| the Big Three | Roosevelt, Churchil, & Stalin |
| D-Day | The invasion to open a second front in Europe began on June 6, 1944 |
| Island Hopping | The technique used to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific War |
| Hiroshima | where the first atomic bomb was dropped |
| Niesi | Japanese Americans who were put in camps at the outbreak of war |
| Rosie the Riverter | poster that represented women's opportunity to land jobs in heavy industry during the war |
| African Americans | fought the war in segregaged units |
| Atlantic Charter | joint statement of British and American war goals |
| unconditional surrender | the Allies demanded that the Japanese give up fighting without conditions |
| rationing | limiting the purchase of scarce items necessary for the war effort |
| Yalta Conference | meeting of the Big Three to plan the organization of post war Europe |
| United Nations | international peace keeping organiation founded in 1945 to replace the League of Nations |
| anti semitism | prejudice or hostility toward Jews |
