| A | B |
|---|
| Appeasement | Giving in to a nation's demand to avoid confrontation |
| Open Door Policy | The U.S. wanted Japan to abide by this in China |
| Four Freedoms | What FDR said the U.S. was fighting for in WWII |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots in WWII |
| genocide | Killing an entire race of people |
| rationing | This was done on the U.S. homefront to conserve resources |
| Hiroshima | first city destroyed by an atomic weapon |
| Munich Pact | England and France agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland |
| D-Day | The allied invasion of Nazi occupied France |
| Battle of Midway | regarded as the turning point in the Pacific War |
| Korematsu v. the U.S. | ruled that it was legal to place Japanese Americans into concentration camps in the U.S. |
| Nuremburg Trials | tried Nazi war criminals after WWII |
| A. Philip Randolph | threatened to lead a march on Washington if more was not done to end discrimination in defense plants |
| Executive Order #9066 | this placed Japanese Americans into concentration camps |
| Flag Salute Cases | these involved Jehovah Witness students who would not salute the flag |
| FEPC | this agency worked to prohibit discrimination in hiring at defense plants during WWII |
| Isolationism | U.S. policy that attempted to keep the nation out of alliances |
| Fascism | the type of government led by Hitler and Mussolini |
| Lend Lease Act | gave aid to England and Russia in the form of weapons and equipment |
| Pearl Harbor | Japan's attack on this place brought the U.S. into WWII |
| Poland | When Hitler attacked this nation it began WWII in 1939 |
| Josef Stalin | leader of the Soviet Union during WWII |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of England during WWII |
| Neutrality Acts | passage of these tried to keep the U.S. out of war during the 1930s |
| American Bund | an organization of American Nazis |
| America First | This movement promoted American neutrality and isolationism |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during WWII |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Commander of Allied forces in Europe during WWII |
| Holocaust | name for Hitler's destruction of the Jews |
| Harry Truman | president who ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs |
| Blitzkrieg | German for "lightning war" |
| Non-Agression pact | agreement by Germany and the USSR to invade and divide Poland |
| War bonds | Used to help the U.S. finance the cost of WWII |
| Axis powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
