| A | B |
|---|
| Adolf Hitler | dictator of Germany |
| Joseph Stalin | dictator of Russia |
| Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) | President of US for most of WW2 |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain |
| Harry Truman | President of US at the end of WW2 |
| Allied Powers | the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy and Japan |
| Holocaust | the mass slaughter of Jews and other groups by the Nazis during WW2 |
| What did Americans do on the homefront to support the war effort? | grew victory gardens, collected fat to use for bombs and missiles, bought liberty bonds |
| internment camps | detention centers where Japanese Americans were moved and confined during WW2, located in desert areas. |
| Allied Strategy in the Pacific | island hopping |
| Island Hopping | a strategy that called for attacking and capturing certain key islands and using them to leapfrog to others. Goal was to get closer to Japan. |
| Marshall Plan | The US gave money to certain European countries to help rebuild economy |
| Truman Plan | Mioney given to certain areas to prevent them from falling to communism |
| Brown VS. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | the first time a court ruled that schools should be integrated |
| Domino Theory | a theory where one country falls to foreign influence and in turn the next country falls, and then the next, etc. President Eisenhower believed in this theory |
