| A | B |
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| Totalitarian State | A single party controls the government and every aspect of peoples lives. |
| Final Solution | Hitler's plan to kill all the Jews in Europe. |
| Neutrality Acts | U.S. laws that banned arms sales or loans to countries at war. |
| Good Neighbor Policy | U.S. policy of establishing friendlier relations with Latin American Countries. |
| Appeasement | The practice of giving in to aggression to avoid war. What countries practiced this? |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | Friendship agreement between Hitler and Stalin. The two agreed not to attack each other and divide up Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe. |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning war practiced by Germany |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allies | England, France, Soviet Union, China, and 45 other countries |
| Lend-Lease Act | Allowed arms sales or loans to any country whose defense was vital to the defense of the U.S. |
| Atlantic Charter | Roosevelt and Churchill set goals for postwar world. Paved the way for the United Nations. |
| Rationing | Limited the amount of certain goods that Americans could buy. Meat, shoes gas were all rationed. |
| Segregation | Separation of the races in the military. The military was still segregated in WWII |
| Tuskegee airmen | African American fighter pilots who trained in Tuskegee Alabama. |
| Midway | Turning point in the war against Japan. Halted Japanese aggression. |
| Normandy--D-Day | Turning point in the war against Germany. Allied invasion of Europe |
| Battle of the Bulge | Last major German offensive of WWII |
| Island Hopping | Allied plan to defeat Japan by capturing neighboring islands. |
| Holocaust | Slaughter of European Jews by Nazis |
| Nuremberg Trials | War crimes trial held in Nuremberg, Germany |
| Potsdam Declaration | Warning to Japan to surrender or face "prompt and utter destruction." |
| Bataan Death March | Forced death march of American as well as Filipano prisoners of war. |
| Operation Overlord | Code name for the invasion of Europe |
| Battle of Britain | Hitler bombed civilian populations in britain for eight months. Capturing Britain would give Germany control of the Atlantc |
