| A | B |
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| Neutrality Acts | Banned the sale of arms or loans to countries at war. |
| Good Neighbor Policy | When FDR withdrew American troops from Latin America |
| Dictator | A ruler who has complete power over a country |
| Benito Mussolini | Leader of Italy during World War II |
| Facists | The political party of Mussolini |
| Adolph Hitler | Leader of Germany during World War II |
| Nazis | Hitler's political party in Germany |
| Totalitarian State | When a single party controls the government and every aspect of citizens lives. |
| The Final Solution | Hitler's plan to kill of the Jews in Europe |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union |
| Collective Farms | Government run farms in Russia |
| Aggression | A warlike act by one country against another without just cause |
| Emperor Hirohito | Leader of Japan |
| Manchuria | Invaded by Japan in 1931 |
| Rhineland | Invaded by Germany in 1936 |
| Ethiopia | Invaded by Italy in 1935 |
| Munich Conference | Leaders of Europe met and gave Germany the Sudetenland |
| Appeasement | The practice of giving in to aggression to avoid a conflict |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to divide up Poland |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Allied Powers | France, England, Russia, China, and the United States |
| Blitzkrieg | Massive attacks using planes, tanks, and infantry used by Germany |
| Battle of Britain | When German planes bombed London |
| Winston Churchill | Leader of Great Britain during World War II |
| Invasion of Poland | The immediate causes of World War II in 1939 |
| Cash-N-Carry | Plan to sell arms to the Allies where they come and get them |
| Lend Lease Act | Allowed the sale or loans of war materials to any country whose defense was vital to the U.S. |
| Atlantic Charter | Roosevelt and Churchill set up goals for the postwar world |
| Pearl Harbor | Japan attacked on December 7, 1941 |
| Women | More than six million entered the workforce during World War II |
| Philip Randolph | Wanted the government to end job discrimination |
| Native Americans | Were used to send messages as "code talkers" |
| War Relocation Agency | Set up inland camps to hold 120,000 Japanese Americans |
| Battle of Midway | Americans sank four Japanese aircraft carriers |
| Battle of El Alamein | Allies defeated German forces in North Africa |
| Invasion of Italy | Allies freed Italy from German control |
| D-Day | Allies landed in France on June 6, 1944 |
| Operation Overlord | Code name for invasion of Europe |
| Battle of the Bulge | German counterattack in December of 1944 |
| Harry Truman | Becomes President after Roosevelt's death in April of 1945 |
| May 7,1945 | Germany surrenders ending war in Europe |
| Island Hopping | Capturing islands under Japanese control and using islands as steps to Japan |
| Douglas MacArthur | Alllied commander in the Pacific |
| Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who crashed into Allied ships |
| Potsdam Declaration | Allied warning to Japan to surrender or face total destruction |
| Enola Gay | Carried the first Atomic bomb |
| August 6, 1945 | Dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
| August 9, 1945 | Dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki |
| Holocaust | Saw the death of over 6 million jews and 6 million others in concentration camps |
| Nuremberg Trials | War Crimes trials in which 12 Nazi leaders were sentenced to death |
| Bataan Death March | Japanese forced 60,000 American and Filipino prisoners to march 100 miles |
| Mahattan Project | Code Name for the Atomic Bomb |
| August 14, 1945 | Japan surrenders and World War II ends. |
