| A | B |
|---|
| totalitarianism | national government was everything-individual nothing |
| facism | extreme form of nationalism |
| Nazis | National Socialist party of Germany (1933-1945) |
| Munich Conference | agreement by Britian & France to give Germany the Sudetenland |
| appeasement | giving in to avoid a larger conflict |
| nonagression pact | agreeing not to attack one another |
| Lend Lease Act | presidential authority to sell war supplies to other nations |
| Pearl Harbor | Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japan |
| Axis Powers | Germany Italy Japan |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain France Russia United States & others |
| Benito Mussolini | leader of the Facist party in Italy |
| Hirohito | Japanese emperor during WWII |
| Winston Churchill | Leader of Great Britain during WWII |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII |
| island hopping | strategy of attacking only key islands |
| Battle of Midway | key turning point in the Pacific war June 1942 |
| Battle of Coral Sea | Japanese forced to turn back May 1942 |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Key Soviet victory over Germans Feb. 1943 |
| El Alamein | Key British victory over Germans Oct-Nov. 1942 |
| General Douglas McArthur | US General in Southern Pacific |
| Adminal Chester Nimitz | US Adminal in Central Pacific |
