| A | B |
|---|
| Adolf Hitler | fascist dictator of Germany,  |
| Benito Mussolini | fascist dictator of Italy,  |
| General Tojo | fascist leader of Japan,  |
| Third Reich | name of Hitler's Germany,  |
| Axis Powers | Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis,  |
| concentration camps | persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust; about 6 million perished,  |
| Hitler began to conquer Europe and violate Versailles | Anschluss (Austria) then Sudentenland (Czechoslovakia),  |
| September 1, 1939 | Hitler invaded Poland; began WWII,  |
| London Blitz | constant bombing of London by the Nazi's,  |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during the London Blitz; would not back down,  |
| Operation Barbarossa | Hitler's failed attempt to invade the Soviet Union,  |
| Vichy, France | time period when France was occupied by the Nazi's (June 1940-June 1944) |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor bombed by Japan; the United States entered WW2,  |
| June 6, 1944 | D Day; allies invaded France to defeat Hitler,  |
| kamikaze | Japanese pilots that became human bombs,  |
| island hopping | strategy of the United States to win the Pacific Theatre; goal was to get close enough to bomb Japan,  |
| Midway Island | battle in the Pacific that turned the tide of the war towards the Allies,  |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | atomic bombs were dropped here to force Japan to surrender; US President Harry Truman made this decision,  |
| United Nations | formed after World War II to try and prevent another war; replaced the League of Nations from the Treaty of Versailles,  |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the United States when Pearl Harbor was attacked |
| appeasement | policy of giving into a dictator; for example Chamberlain giving Hitler the Sudetenland |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazis put on trial for crimes against humanity |
| Security Council- UN | five permanent members- US, GB, France, Russia, China |
| Iron Curtain | Churchill called the Soviet control of Eastearn Europe this,  |
| Cold War | time of hostility- Communists vs. Western Democracies,  |
| containment | Truman Doctrine- to stop the spread of communism,  |
| Marshall Plan | plan to rebuilt Europe- learned from Versailles not to punish,  |
| satellite country | dependent states of the USSR |
| Warsaw Pact | USSR and satellites,  |
| NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | United States and Western Democracies,  |
