| A | B |
|---|
| December 7, 1941 | Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor |
| Allied Powers | U.S., Great Britain, France, Soviet Union |
| Soviet Union and U.S. | military powers after WWII |
| reason Germany failed to capture Moscow | harsh Russian winters |
| European countries lost after WWII | colonial empires |
| United Nations | worldwide organization to promote peace |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | bombed by U.S. |
| MacArthur | U.S. general |
| Japan after WWII | occupied by U.S. military |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanese general |
| appeasement | response to Axis aggression |
| causes of WWII | aggression of totalitarian powers, nationalism, appeasement |
| WWII beginning | Germany invades Poland |
| causes of WWII | Germany's treatment in Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations unable to enforce decisions, isolationism in Europe and the U.S. |
| postwar Japan was barred | from maintaining offensive military forces |
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day |
| Pol Pot | Cambodia genocide |
| Blitzkrieg | lightning warfare by Germans during the invasion of Poland |
| Harry Truman | President of U.S. after FDR |
| last Axis power to surrender | Japan |
| leaders during WWII | Roosevelt-U.S.; Stalin-USSR; Hirohito-Japan; Churchill-Great Britain |
| Hutu genocide in Rwanda | against Tutsis |
| Germany loses in Europe | after invasion of Soviet Union |
| democratic government established | in West Germany after WWII |
| U.S. President during WWII | Franklin Roosevelt |
| U.S. remained neutral | during early phase of WWII |
| U.S. entered war | after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor |
| U.S. general, Douglas MacArthur | led Allied forces in the Pacific |
| examples of genocide | Armennians killed by Ottoman Turks;Tutsie killed by Hutus; Muslims and Croats killed by Bosnian Serbs |
| Hitler's belief that Aryans were superior | master race |
| Dwight Eisenhower | commander of Allied forces in Europe |
| Germany and Berlin divided after WWII | between 4 Allied powers |
| Nuremberg | site of war crimes trials of Nazi leaders |
| communism and democracy | political philosophies of Europe |
| genocide | the systemaic and urposeful destruction of a racial, politcal, religious or cultural group |
| implementing the Final Solution | extermination camps, gas chambers, death squades |
| D-Day | Allies staged military landing in France |
| Winston Churchill | prime minister of Europe during WWII |
| Holocaust | assacre of more that 6 million Jews |
| Stalin targeted these groups | peasants, government and military leaders, elite |
| Battle of Britain | fought mostly in the air |
| causes of the Holocaust | totalitarism, anti-semitism, nationalism |
| Bosnia Serbs | targeted Muslims and Croats |
| Final Solution | policy fo eliminate all Jews in Europe |
| U.S. guarantees security of this country after WWII | Japan |
