| A | B |
|---|
| Munich conference | France & Britain give the Sudetenland (Czech) to Germany (Hitler) |
| Appeasement | Giving in to an aggressor to preserve peace (ie-Munich Conference) |
| Nonaggression Pact | Agreement between Germany/Russia not to attack each other |
| Allied Powers | Alliance between Britain and France |
| Blitzkrieg | "lightning war" use by Germany to attack other European countries |
| Maginot Line | Fortified wall that France built along its border with Germany |
| Battle of Britain | Air battle between Germany and Britain |
| Lend-Lease Act | U.S. loaned war supplies to Great Britain |
| Battle of the Atlantic | Conflict between Germany and Britain to control ocean trade routes |
| Atlantic Charter | Pact between Britain and U.S. in which they agreed NOT to acquire new territory during war times |
| Pearl Harbor | Attack by Japanese on the U.S. navy at Hawaii |
| War Production Board | Organization that oversaw the conversion of factories to war production |
| Selective Training & Service Act | This established the first peacetime draft |
| Rations | Consumers were given only a certain amount of food, equipment and supplies each month |
| Braceros | Mexican workers who helped the U.S. agricultural economy during WWII |
| Internment | What the U.S. did to many Japanese-Americans during WWII |
| African-Americans | The minority group that gained the most rights for equal pay during WWII |
| Hitler | The leader of Germany during WWII |
| Mussolini | The leader of Italy during WWII |
| China | The country that the U.S. wanted Japan to get out of during the 1940's |
