| A | B |
|---|
| FDR | 32nd President, created New Deal, president when WWII started |
| Lend-Lease Act | FDR’s plan in giving ships to Great Britain so supplies could go to Great Britain |
| WWII | Worst war in history, fought against Nazis & Japanese |
| Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7th, 1941, Japanese surprise attack on U.S. |
| D-Day | June 6th, 1941, Allied invasion of Normandy |
| Manhattan Project | Code name of U.S. plan to build nuclear bomb |
| Harry Truman | 33rd Pres.- Pres during end of WWII |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Nazi Germany |
| Allies | Winning side of WWII, U.S., Great Britain, France, Soviet Union |
| Axis Powers | Alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan during WWII |
| Nazis | Led by Hitler during WWII, responsible for Holocaust |
| Fascism | Form of government used by Hitler, Mussolini in WWII |
| Fat Man & Little Boy | The two nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
| Alliance Systems | When countries team up for protection, but usually leads to war |
| Convoys | Groups of ships that travel together for mutual protection |
| Mussolini | Dictator of Italy, believed in Fascism |
| Tojo | Prime Minister of Japan, wanted to attack Pearl Harbor |
| Munich Pact | Agreement by Hitler to not take any more new land |
| Neutrality Acts | Laws passed by Congress to keep the US out of a war |
| Cash & Carry | Plan by FDR to allow British to buy weapons & come & get them |
| German Wolf-packs | Groups of U-boats that hunted down allied supply ships |
| Atlantic Charter | Agreement between FDR & British on how to fight WWII & defeat Hitler |
| Battle of the Atlantic | Where the Allies used convoys & sonar to beat U-boats & keep the Britain supplied |
| Stalingrad | Turning point of the war in Europe, where Soviets beat & began pushing Germans back |
| North African Campaign | Battle against Germans in the desert, allowed US to attack Italy next |
| Italian Campaign | Was the invasion of the "Soft-underbelly" of Europe, & diverted troops from France |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last attack on Western Front, he loses men, tanks & never wins again |
| Phony War | When the British & French didn't attack & hoped Hitler would stop expanding |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | The two cities that had atomic bombs dropped on them |
| Coral Sea | 1st Naval battle where the two navies didn't sea each other, but relied on planes |
| Battle of Okinawa | Last island to be invaded, Japanese lost 110,000 |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots who flew their planes into American ships |
| Island Hopping | When Americans jumped from island to island all the way to Japan |
| Iwo Jima | Volcanic island that the US invaded for its runways & airfields |
| Battle of Midway | Turning point of the war in the Pacific, the Americans won because they knew the Japanese were coming |
| Harry Truman | President after FDR died |
| Holocaust | When 6 million Jews & 6 million others were killed by the Nazis |
| Manhattan Project | Code name for the plan to build the atomic bombs |
| Concentration Camps | Where the Nazis worked the Jews to death & killed them in gas chambers |
| Auschwitz | The largest of the Nazi death camps |
| Final Solution | Name for the Nazi plan to eliminate the Jews of Europe |
