| A | B |
| Axis Powers | Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Dictator | Person who has total control of a country |
| Nazi | National Socialist Workers Party; political party in Germany |
| Adolf Hitler | Dictator of Germany during WWII; leader of Nazi Party |
| blitzkrieg | “Lightning War” |
| Pearl Harbor | Port in Hawaii; was attacked by Japanese on December 7, 1941 |
| Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy during WWII |
| Internment | Refers to camps set up in the U.S. where Japanese Americans were detained after Pearl Harbor |
| FDR | President of the United States at the beginning of WWII |
| fascism | Type of government in which a dictator has total control and rights of individuals are limited. |
| Joseph Stalin | Dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII |
| Winston Churchill | Leader of Great Britain during WWII |
| Allied Powers | Alliance of U.S., Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and Canada during WWII |
| Lend/Lease Act | Agreement between the U.S. and Great Britain; U.S. supplied G.B. with warships and supplies in exhange for military bases |
| Hideki Tojo | Dictator of Japan during WWII |
| Isolationism | Policy of avoiding conflicts with other countries |
| Inflation | When the price of goods increases but the money you make does not |