| A | B |
|---|
| Anschluss | union of Austria and Germany as part of Hitler's expansionist goals |
| appeasement | giving in to the demands of an aggressor to keep the peace |
| pacifism | opposition to all war |
| sanctions | penalties |
| Atlantic Charter | issued by Roosevelt and Churchill that set goals for the war and for the postwar world |
| blitzkrieg | "lightning war" waged by the Germans |
| Lend-Lease Act | allowed Roosevelt to sell or lend war materials to certain nations |
| Operation Barbarossa | German plan to conquer the Soviet Union |
| Pearl Harbor | Japanese bombing of this base led to the United States involvement in World War II |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Soviets defeated the Germans |
| El Alamein | British stopped Rommel's advance here |
| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | name of the plan to establish a Japanese empire in Asia |
| Holocaust | name given to the Nazi massacre of more than six million Jews |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | helped stop the Japanese advance in the Pacific |
| Battle of the Bulge | represented Hitler's last success in the war |
| kamikazes | Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions to try to save their homeland |
| V-E Day | the day the war officially ended in Europe |
| containment | limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control |
| NATO | alliance among the United States, Canada, and nine Western European countries |
| Truman Doctrine | outlined the policy of American resistance to Soviet expansion |
| Warsaw Pact | alliance among the Soviet Union and seven satellite states in Eastern Europe |
