| A | B |
|---|
| political instability | citizens dissatisfied with their country's government resulting from WWI |
| economic devastation | economic depression resulting from WWI |
| worldwide depression | countries in Europe suffered from terrible economic depression |
| fascism | total power is given to a dictator & individual freedoms are denied |
| dictator | one person holds all the power |
| Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy |
| Hideki Tojo | military dictator of Japan |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| isolationism | when a country stays out of other countries' problems |
| economic aid | to provide financial assistance to countries |
| international embargo | to cut off all supplies to a nation (Japan) |
| Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | Japan attacked the U.S. here, causing U.S. to declare war on them |
| Allies | Big 3 - Great Britain, U.S., Soviet Union |
| Lend Lease | U.S. > sell, trade, lease or give military equipment to any country defending itself from Axis Powers |
| Battle of Midway | U.S. sunk 4 Japanese aircraft carriers near the island of Midway in the Pacific, marking a turning point in the war with Japan |
| Battle of Stalingrad | largest battle in history, stopped Hitler's advance into Soviet Union, was turning point in war in eastern Europe |
| D-Day | Allies crossed the English Channel to land on the beaches of France, to take back the land occuped by Germany, turning point in Western Europe |
| Reparations | $33 billion Germany had to pay Allies after WWI, made economic conditions worse in Germany |
| Rosie the Riveter | fictional character on posters to convince women to take men's jobs |
| conserving & rationing | using less or limiting the amount of food or fuel used |
| internment camps | Japanese Americans on the West coast were put in guarded camps in the middle of the country |
| atomic bomb | powerful nuclear bombs U.S. dropped on Japan, forcing them to surrender |
| FDR & Harry S. Truman | U.S. Presidents during WWII |
