| A | B |
|---|
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy and Japan |
| Allied Powers | Britain, France, U.S.S.R. and U.S. |
| Stalin | The dictator of the Soviet Union during WW2 |
| FDR | The President of the United States during WW2 |
| Tojo | The military leader of Japan during WW2 |
| Hitler | The military dictator of Germany in WW2 |
| Nazi | The political party of Adolf Hitler |
| Mussolini | The fascist dictator of Italy during WW2 |
| Churchill | The Prime Minister of Britain during WW2 |
| Appeasement | Act of giving in to the demands of aggressors to keep fighting |
| Cash and Carry | The "neutral" policy of the U.S. would sell military provision to the Allies but not transport them. |
| Lend-Lease | Departing from neutrality, the U.S. would give supplies to the Allies, without entering the war |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941- the date that will live in infamy- pushed the U.S. into the war |
| Battle of Britain | The bombing raids of the Nazi Air Force in 1940- the Royal Air Force held them back |
| Poland | Where Hitler invaded which actually started WW2 |
| Island Hopping | The plan to cross the Pacific and get close enough to bomb Japan |
| Hitler First | The strategy of the U.S. and the Allies after Pearl Harbor to defeat the Axis powers |
| El Alamein | The turning point battle in North Africa where the U.S. helped stop the Axis threat to win oil fields in the Middle East |
| Stalingrad | The turning point on the Eastern front, where the Red Army forced the Nazis to retreat from the U.S.S.R |
| D-Day (Normandy) | The land invasion of the Allies in France to open a second front against Hitler |
| Midway | The turning point in the Pacific, where the U.S. stopped Japanese advancement |
| Iwo Jima and Okinawa | Battle which gave U.S. airfields close enough to launch attacks on mainland of Japan |
| Hiroshima | Where the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan |
| Harry Truman | The President of the U.S. who decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan |
| Kamikaze | Meaning divine wind, these were the dangerous suicide fighters of Japan |
| Blitzkrieg | The quick air and land attack used by Germany to quickly defeat an enemy |
| Tuskegee Airmen | The segregated African-American fighters in the Air Force |
| Nisei Regiments | The segregated Japanese-American fighting units who were only allowed to fight in Europe. |
| Navajo | They were used as the code talkers in the Pacific, as the Japanese could not decipher their language. |
| Geneva Convention | This agreement dealt with the proper treatment of prisoners of war |
| Bataan Death March | American POWs suffered brutal treatment by the Japanese after the surrender of the Philippines |
| Holocaust | The systematic extermination of the "undesirable" in German conquered territory |
| Genocide | The purposeful destruction of racial, political, religious or cultural group |
| Final Solution | Hitler’s decision to exterminate the Jews in Europe |
| Anti-Semitism | The hatred of Jews |
| Mein Kampf | Hitler’s book which outlined the basic beliefs of the Nazi Party, including anti-Semitism |
| Nuremberg Trials | Emphasizing individuals’ responsibilities during the war, these charged some Nazi official with war crimes of the Holocaust |
| Manhattan Project | The code-name of the building of the atomic bomb |
