| A | B |
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| fascism | political movement that emphasized autocratic and nationalist policies |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide missions |
| final solution | the use of extermination camps and gas chambers by Nazis against Jews |
| blitzreig | "lightning war"; sudden massive attacks or lightning war |
| December 7th 1941 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
| June 6th 1945 | D-Day, Allies stormed beaches of Normandy |
| Joseph Stalin | fascist dictator of the Soviet Union |
| Benito Mussolini | fascist dictator of Italy: started new "Roman Enpire" by conquering Ethiopia |
| Adolf Hitler | fascist dictator of Germany |
| Neville Chamberlain | this British prime minister signed the Munich Pact: pre WWII |
| Munich Pact | agreement with Germany regarding Czechoslovakia, signed by Neville Chamberlain |
| Pact | Agreement |
| Battle of Britain | the result of this led Hitler to call of the invasion of Britain |
| Poland | this nation was the first country to be invaded and taken over by Germany |
| nonagression pact | prior to the invasion of Poland, this is what Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to |
| Germany | this country invaded Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg |
| appeasement | by signing the Munich Pact, Britain and France agreed to take this policy toward German aggression |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | this allowed nations to buy American armaments as long as they pay cash and carry the goods home on their own ships |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Lend-Lease Act | allows the president to loan or "rent" arms to "any country whose defense is vital to the US" |
| Hideki Tojo | prime minister of Japan |
| Japan | Hideki Tojo was this nation's prime minister during WWII |
| Pearl Harbor | site of a surprise attack on the US by Japan |
| Office of Price Administration | this was created by Congress to fight the threat of inflation |
| Selective Service System | this instituted the draft and eventually mustered ten million soldiers |
| Nisei | this term refers to Japanese Americans who were born in the USA |
| WAAC's | the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps |
| War Production Board | this assumed the responsibility for converting industry from peacetime to wartime production and distributing raw materials to key industries |
| Office of Scientific Research and Development | this was responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development of "wonder drugs" such as penicillin that saved countless lives |
| Harry S. Truman | FDR's vice president; as president he dropped atomic bombs to save U.S. lives |
| D-Day | this day marked the invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe on shores of France |
| George Patton | this American General led the troops that liberated Paris from German occupation |
| Battle of the Bulge | the initial success of this German offensive battle was due mainly to the Allies' being caught off guard |
| Harry Truman | president who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb |
| Allies | WWII countries that fought with USA and Great Brtiain |
| Axis | WWII countries that fought with Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Holocaust | genocide(killing) committed against the Jewish people by Nazis |
| anti-Semitism | discrimination against Jewish people |
| genocide | wiping out an entire racial or cultural group |
| ghetto | restricted area of European cities that kept Jews separated from others |
| Kristallnacht | "night of broken glass", gangs of Nazis destroyed property of Jews |
| inflation | increasing prices when there is more money available than goods to buy |
| internment | relocation of Japanese Americans to camps in the United States |
| German | Troops from here marched into Poland in 1939 to start WWII |
| Attack of Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| Japanese | Whose aircraft bombed U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor? |
| Hitler | Chose to ignore agreement and invaded Soviet Union |
| D-Day | This invasion of France was the final push to defeat Germany; June 6, 1944 |
| V-E Day | Germany surrenders; "Victory in Europe" |
| "Final Solution" | Germany's goal to get rid of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, those wt mental illness/disabilities |
| 12 million | Approximate number of people killed in the Holocaust |
| General MacArthur | leader of land forces in the Pacific |
| Admiral Nimitz | Leader of navy forces in the Pacific |
| Manhattan Project | Secret group that worked to develop an atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima/Nagasaki | Destroyed by first two atomic bombs ever used in war |
| War Production Board | Job was to oversee the making of war goods. |
| Office of Price Administration | Job was to set prices on goods to keep inflation down. |
| Japanese Americans | Many were forced into interment camps during WW II |
| Winston Churchill | prime minister of Great Britain during WWII |
