| A | B |
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| Inflation | Rising prices |
| Fascism | A system of government that stressed the glory of the state |
| Dictatorship | Government by a leader of group that holds unchallenged power and authority |
| Totalitarian | A form of government in which the person or party in charge has absolute control over all aspects of life |
| Francisco Franco | Fascist general |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist leader |
| Neville Chamberlain | British Prime minister |
| Appeasement | giving in to aggressive demands to maintain peace |
| Blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| Allies | Alliance of Britain, France, and Russia |
| Vichy France | Unoccupied part of France |
| Luftwaffe | German air force |
| Axis powers | Alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy |
| Hideki Tojo | General in Japan |
| Pacifists | People who do not believe in the use of military force |
| Neutrality Act | Prevent the nation from being drawn into war as it had been in 1917 |
| Neutral | Not aid one side or the other |
| Quarantine Speech | F.D.R.'s speech following the Japanese attack on China in which he called on America to take clear sides in the current world conflicts |
| Cash-and-Carry | Law that changed Neutrality Act to allow countries at war to purchase American goods as long as they paid cash and picked up their oders in American ports |
| Lend-Lease Act | Allowed the nation to send weapons to Great Britain reguardless of its ability to pay |
| Atlantic Charter | Shared goals of the U.S. and Britain in opposing Hitler and his allies |
| Rosie the Riveter | Represented the working women of the war |
| Manhattan Project | The top-secret program to build an Atomic bomb |
| Atomic Bomb | A powerful weapon that used energy released by the splitting of atoms |
| Bracero Program | Gave Mexican workers the chance to work temporarily in the U.S. |
| Zoot suit riots | Series of attacks by U.S. sailors against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles |
| Wolf Pack | U-boats hunted in groups and often attacked at night |
| Operation Torch | The codename for the Allied invasion of North Africa |
| Tuskegee Airmen | Segregated unit of African Americans, the first ever to receive training as pilots in the U.S. military |
| Operation Overlord | The codename for the allied invasion of mainland Europe |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944, first day of the Aliied invasion of Normandy |
| Battle of the Bulge | Battle between Germany and the Allied forces; the German advance created a "bulge" in the Allied battle lines, but the Allies eventually prevailed |
| Anti-Semitism | Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of broken glass" |
| Concentration Camps | Labor camps meant to hold waht Hitler called enemies of the state |
| Ghettos | Neighborhoods in a city to which a group of people are confined |
| Genocide | Killing of an entire people |
| Final Solution | The establishment of six new camps |
| War Refugee Board | A group established by F.D.R. that helped 20,000 Jews who might otherwise have fallen into the hands of the Nazis |
| Holocaust | Genocidal campaign against the Jews during WWII |
| Bataan Death March | When the Japanese provided little food or water |
| Battle of Midway | A key naval and air battle between Japanese and U.S. forces during WWII |
| Code Talkers | American Navajos who served in the MArines during WWII |
| Kamikaze | A pilot who agreed to load his aircraft with bombs and crash it on an enemy ship |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | Battle between Japanese foreces and invading U.S. Troops |
| Battle of Okinawa | Battle between Japanese forces and invading U.S. troops; fought on island of Okinawa; over 100,000 Japanese troops were killed |
| Rationing | Limiting the amount of a certain product each individual can get |
| Internment | The forced relocation and confinement to the camps |
| Yalta Conference | Meeting between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin to reach on agreement on what to do with Germany after WWII |
| Occupy | To take control of a place by placing troops in it |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe |
| Enola Gay | An American B-29 flew over the city of Hiroshima and dropped its atomic bomb |
| V-J Day | Victory in Japan |
| United Nations | An international organization that encourages cooperation among nations and prevent future wars |
| Potsdam Conference | Meeting among leaders of the Allies near the end of WWII |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister for most of the war |
