| A | B |
|---|
| Neutrality Acts | Laws passed by Congress in the 1930’s aimed at keeping the US out of WWII |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped in 1945 |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning warfare used by Hitler |
| Nuremberg Trials | The site of the Nazi war crimes trials |
| Total War | Putting all of a country’s resources into the war effort |
| Franklin Roosevelt | US President during WWII and the Great Depression |
| Atomic Bomb | A bomb splitting the atom that was more powerful than anything created at that time |
| Truman Doctrine | US policy trying to contain the spread of Communism |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization Military alliance (US & North Atlantic countries) aimed at safeguarding the threat of Communism |
| Appeasement | Giving in to an aggressor to keep the peace |
| Pacifism | Opposition to all war |
| Holocaust | Hitler’s genocide of 6 million European Jews |
| Anschluss | Hitler’s plan for the union of Austria and Germany |
| Yalta Conference | Conference between Churchill |
| Harry Truman | US President after Roosevelt’s death |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet totalitarian leader ally in WWII US enemy during the Cold War |
| United Nations | International group of countries set up in 1945 to handle peacekeeping and other world issues |
| Warsaw Pact | Alliance between Soviet Union and 7 Eastern European nations |
| Security Council | A United Nations a group of 5 countries that has power to veto decisions made by the larger group |
