| A | B |
|---|
| Dictators | rule with complete authority and use military force to control and conquer |
| Atomic Bomb | first created by the US, used to end the war in the Pacific during WWII (Hiroshima & Nagasaki) |
| Pearl Harbor | Despite America's neutrality, Japan bombed this naval base thus bringing the U.S. into World War II |
| Executive Order 9066 | President FDR's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II |
| Holocaust | the mass extermination of millions of Jews and other "undesirables" in Nazi concentration camps during World War II |
| Genocide | the systematic persecution and murder of a people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, etc. |
| Wartime Propaganda | posters used to encourage rationing, enlistment, and women filling manufacturing jobs |
| Economic Depression | World-wide condition that preceded World War II and allowed for the rise of dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini |
| Unemployment Rate During WWII | decrease in unemployment during the war as people worked in factories and other war industries |
| Baby Boom | increase in birth rate after World War II |
| Island Hopping | Allied strategy to win the war in the Pacific |
| D-Day | turning point in the war in Europe as Allies get "boots on the ground" in France |
