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| appeasement | Giving in to the demands of an aggressor nation to keep the peace. |
| Neutrality Acts | The United States passed these in the mid-1930s to avoid any involvement in a European war. |
| Sudetenland | This region of Czechoslovakia contained over 3 million Germans and was desired by Hitler to add to his empire. |
| Adolf Hitler | The leader of Nazi Germany. |
| Joseph Stalin | The leader of the Soviet Union. |
| Benito Mussolini | The fascist leader of Italy. |
| 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. |
| Erwin Rommel | One of Hitler's top Generals. Nicknamed the Desert Fox. |
| Winston Churchill | The prime minister of Great Britain during the war. |
| 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." |
| Pearl Harbor | The Japanese succesfully attacked and disabled the American naval fleet on December 7th, 1941. |
| genocide | Systematic murder of an entire people. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Considered the turning point on the Eastern front whereupon the German suffered over 300,000 killed, wounded or captured in a key loss to the Russians |
| Eisenhower | He was made the supreme allied commander in 1944 |
| D-Day | The invasion to open a second front in Europe began on June 6, 1944 |
| V-J Day | Victory over Japan Day. Day Japan surrendered ending WWII: 8-15-45. |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day. Allied accepted surrender of Nazi Germany: 8-15-45 |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during WWII |
| Code Talkers | People who talked using a coded language; referencing Native Americans who served in the U.S Marine Corps who translated secret tactical messages |
| Zoot-suit riots | Riots erupted in L.A. between Euro-American sailors, Marines and Latino youths who wore zoot suits |
| Battle of Okinawa | Largest WWII assault in the Pacific with largest # of casualities (+100,00 Japanese troops dead) |
| Executive Order 9066 | Issued by FDR, during WWII, prescribing military zones leading to Japanese Internment camps. |
| Einstein | German born theoretical physicist discovered theory of general relativity who alerted FDR that Germany might be developing atomic bomb. |
| Der Fuhrer | Title given to Adolf Hitler meaning leader or guide |
| Internment | Imprisonment or confinement of people in large groups without trial. |
| Gestapo | Official Secret Police of Nazi Germany |
| Tuskegee Airmen | African American U.S. Army Air Corp pilots that served in World War II. |
