| A | B |
|---|
| Sir Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during the war |
| Dictator | a person who has complete power and authority over a country |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | supreme commander of the Allied forces during the war who later became the 34th president of the United States |
| Adolf Hitler | dictator of Germany during the war |
| Home front | term given to the United States mainland during the war |
| Benito Mussolini | dictator of Italy during the war |
| Nazis | shortened name for the German political party called the National Socialist German Worker's Party and commanded by Hitler |
| Ration | to allow only certain amounts of food, gasoline, and other goods to each person |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32nd president of the United States |
| Joseph Stalin | dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929-1953 |
| Swastika | emblem on the Nazi flag |
| Harry S. Truman | became the 33rd United States president after FDR died; ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs |
| Veteran | soldier who returns home from the war |
| V-E Day | "Victory in Europe Day" when Germany surrendered |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city on which the first atomic bomb was dropped (August 6, 1945) |
| Nagasaki | Japanese city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945) |
| Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii that was bombed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 |
| Relocation Camps | special camps in the United States where Japanese Americans were detained after the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| General Hideki Tojo | military dictator who controlled Japan during the war |
| Jews | people persecuted by the Nazis because of their religion |
| Holocaust | the mass murder of European Jews |
| Allies | countries fighting against the Axis powers; includes U.S., France, Great Britain, Soviet Union (after 1941) |
| Axis | the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan |
