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| Hitler wanted all German-speaking nations in Europe to be a part of Germany. To this end, he had designs on re-uniting Germany with his native homeland, Austria | Anschluss |
| a defensive military alliance, agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 | Tripartite |
| kinds of freedom mentioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech in 1941 as worth fighting for: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear | 4 Freedoms |
| A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships. | Pearl Harbor |
| U.S. army organization created (1942) during World War II to enlist women as auxiliaries for noncombatant duty in the U.S. army | Women’s Army Corps |
| was an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II (1939-1945), oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan | Douglas MacArthur |
| he first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers. | Battle of Coral Sea |
| Leader of Chinese Nationalist forces who fought the communist, and forced to flee to Taiwan by collapse of Nationalist China in 1949 | Chiang Kai-shek |
| was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976 | Mao Zedong |
| a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture an industrial port city on the Volga River in the Soviet Union; one of the most deadly battles of wwii; crushing defeat for Germany | Stalingrad |
| A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor over a three day period | Midway |
| the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy | D-Day |
| A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships. | Pearl Harbor |
| a military strategy in the Pacific to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan. | Island hopping |
| a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. | Yalta |
| a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II | Manhattan Project |
| a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread. | Rationing |
| Debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war. | War bonds |
| law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. | G.I. Bill |
| representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies | Rosie the Riveter |
