| A | B |
|---|
| Franklin Roosevelt | American president during most of WWII |
| Appeasement | policy of making concessions to preserve peace it was an indirect cause of WWII |
| Harry Truman | American President who made the decision to drop Atomic bombs on Japan |
| Douglas MacArthur | US general who occupied Japan after the war, overseeing its reconstruction |
| Charles De Gaulle | leader of French resistance after the Nazi occupation |
| George Marshall | US general and Sec. of State that developed an aid package to help rebuild Europe |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of USSR during WWII |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of Nazi Germany during WWII |
| Hideki Tojo | Military leader of Japan during WWII |
| Emperor Hirohito | Japanese emperor during WWII, he urged for surrender after US atomic attack |
| Neville Chamberlain | Britism Prime Minister who advocated appeasement with Hitler |
| Munich Conference | 1938 meeting to discuss Hitler's claims to the Sudetenland |
| Blitzkreg | "lightning war" quick strike tactics used by German military |
| Nazi-Soviet non aggression Pact | agreement between Germany and USSR not to attack each other for 10 years. Quickly broken by Hitler. |
| Maginot line | elaborate French defenses along the border with Germany |
| Allied Powers | France, UK, USA, USSR |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Hiroshima | 1st Japanese city attacked with Atomic weapons by USA |
| War crimes trials | trials held after WWII for Nazi and Japanese leaders. Convicted and execued Tojo. |
| Nagasaki | 2nd city attacked by USA with Atom bomb |
| Genocide | systematic and purposeful destruction of an entire group of people |
| Final solution | Hitler's plan to elminate all of the Jews in Europe |
| Berlin | German capital, it was divided into different zones by the allies after WWII |
| Iron Curtain | term given by Winston Churchill to the e. europe countries under the influence of Stalin |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during WWII, he long advocated standing up to Hitler |
| Marshall Plan | US aid package to Europe after WWII |
| United Nations | new international peacekeeping organization created ater WWII. |
| Battle of Britain | 6 month air battle between Germany and Britain where Germany failed to defeat Britain with bombing runs |
| Battle of Stalingrad | USSR v. Germany, USSR held the city of Stalingrad and then went on the offensive against Nazi Germany |
| Pearl Harbor | US Naval base in Hawaii, attacked by the Japanese in an attempt to cripple the US navy. The attack brought the US into WWII |
| Battle of Midway | turning point in war in Pacific, US went on the offensive against Japan after this battle |
| Battle of El Alamein | Allies defeat Germans in North Africa, gaining control of the Suez canal and Middle East oil fields |
| D-Day invasion | Allied attack that began their campaign to free France from Nazi control. |
