| A | B |
|---|
| dictator | a brutal ruler of a nation who has complete control |
| aggression | to attack other nations |
| appease | to give in to someone's demand to avoid conflict |
| blitzkrieg | swift attacks by German forces during World War II |
| fascism | a system under which the goverment rules by terror and by appealing to racism and nationalism |
| Nazi | a political party founded by Hitler which set up a totalitarian government in Germany |
| totalitarian | controlling every aspect of life in a nation |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Japan, and Italy joined together to fight the Allies in World War II |
| Mussolini | Italian dictator during World War II |
| Tojo | military ruler in Japan during World War II |
| Manchuria | part of China invaded by Japan |
| Ethiopia | under Italy's control during World War II |
| Rhineland | part of Germany occupied by Nazi troops in 1936, a threat to France |
| Poland | divided by the Soviet Union and Germany in 1939 |
| Stalin | ruler of the Soviet Union during World War II |
| Nazi Soviet Pact | an alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union... it ended when Germany attacked the Soviet Union |
| Neville Chamberlain | British Prime Minister, he tried to appease Hitler |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II |
| genocide | the murder of an entire people |
| ghetto | parts of cities or towns where Jews were isolated from non-Jews until they were deported |
| concentration camps | these were set up first as work camps then later death camps for those Hitler wanted to exterminate |
| Nuremberg, Germany | Alfonse Heck attended a Nazi rally here in 1938 |
| Mein Kamph | Hitler wrote his plan for the future in this book |
| Fuhrer | Hitler's title as leader in Germany |
| St. Louis | FDR ignored the request to allow more than 900 Jewish refugees on this ship to come into the U.S. |
| propaganda | intended to make people think in a certain way, it is always persuasive and persistant |
| Kristallnacht | in 1938 this "night of broken glass" was the beginning of open violence against German Jews |
| Final Solution | the extermination of all European Jews |
| Evian Conference | 32 nations agreed to try to help European Jews, but really did nothing |
| Nuremberg Laws | these took away the rights of citizenship of German Jews |
| neutral | not taking sides in an argument |
| isolationists | wanted to stay out of foreign affairs and focus on domestic problems |
| Franklin Roosevelt | came to power in the U. S. the same year as Hitler in Germany |
| Pearl Harbor | the base for the U.S. Pacific fleet was here... it was attacked by the Japanese in Dec. 1941 |
| Atlantic Charter | FDR and Churchill pledged support for each other in this document |
| Lend Lease | Congress agreed to sell war materials to our friends at war |
| ally | friend |
| Allies | Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, U.S. in World War II |
| Holocaust | the systematic genocide of European Jews and others during World War II |
| Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 | the first peacetime draft in the U.S. |
| Reichstag | Germany's lawmaking body, it was controlled by the Nazi Party during World War II |
| acquiescence | allowing action to take place without intervening |
| ration | a limited amount of something |
| island hopping | the U.S. attacked key islands as stepping stones to an attack on Japan |
| Einstein | scientist urged FDR to develop an atomic bomb |
| kamikazes | Japanese suicide pilots who crashed their planes into U.S. ships |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Allied commander-in-chief in the European theater of operations, he later became a U.S. President |
| Yalta | conference where FDR, Stalin and Churchill planned for how to deal with post war Europe |
| Harry Truman | he took over the Presidency when FDR died in April of 1945 |
| May, 1945 | war in Europe ended |
| Manhattan Project | code name for secret project to develop the world's first atomic bomb |
| Heroshima, Nagasaki | the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these 2 Japanese cities |
| Sept. 1945 | Japan surrendered...World War II was over |
| victory garden | backyard and vacant lots where gardens produced nearly 40% of America's vegetables in the War years |
| GI Bill of Rights | a 1944 law which enabled WWII veterans to go back to school |
| code talkers | Navajo Indians who used their native language to send secret military messages in the Pacific theater |
| D-Day | on June 6, 1944, the Allied forces landed in Normandy, France to begin an assault on Nazi forces across Europe |
| summit conference | a meeting of "high" goverment officials (example: Yalta Conference) |
