| A | B |
|---|
| collective bargainning | process where by a union negotiates with management |
| Holocaust | Hitler's policy of killing Jews |
| Brain Trust | experts who helped President Roosevelt |
| Lend Lease Act | sales or loans to any country the president deemed vital to the defense of the US |
| Agression | war like act |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning War-massive attack by Germany on Polland |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | Hitler and Stalin agreed not to attack one another |
| Potsdam Declaration | Allied leaders told Japan to surrender or face "prompt and uttter destruction" |
| Nazi Party | member of the German National Socialist Workers Party--led by Alolph Hitler |
| Fascist Party | Bennito Mussolini's political party |
| FDR | Franklin Delano Roosevelt- President |
| Harry Truman | V.P. to FDR takes over when he dies |
| Hundred Days | first hundred days of of FDR's term-- |
| D-Day | June 6th- invasion of Normandy |
| Neutrality Acts | passed by congress to keep the US neutral-banned loans and sales of weapons to countries at war |
| Good Neighbor Policy | good relations with Latin America |
| Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy-facist party |
| dictator | ruler who has complete power |
| Totalitarian state | single party that controls all |
| collective farms | government run farms |
| Appeasement | practice of giving in to agression in order to avoid future conflict |
| Joseph Stalin | Russian Dictator- Communist |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan and 6 other countries |
| Allied Powers | Great Britian, France, China, US and Soviet Union and 45 other countries |
| Battle of Bitian | German planes attacked Britian |
| Atlantic Charter | set up goals for post WWII |
| Japanese interment | Japanese Americans were forced to live in camps during the war. |
| Neutrality Acts | laws passed by congress to keep America out of the war-banned sale of arms or loans |
| Cash and Carry | compromise between FDR and Congress-Allies could by arms with cash and carry them on their own ships |
| Lend Lease Act | 1941-sales or loan of war material to countries the president deemed vital to the defense of the US |
| Adolf Hitler | totolitarian leader of Germany during WWII --Nazi |
| Black Eagles | African American unit that served heroically during WWII |
| Operartion Overlord | Code name for the invasion of Europe |
| Dwight Eisenhower | led US troops in North Africa and Europe |
| Harry Truman | Vice president to FDR--President during end of WWII |
| V E Day | Victory in Europe- May 8, 1945 |
| V J Day | Victory over Japan--August 14, 1945 |
| Bataan Death March | Japan forced 60,000 American and Filipino prisoners to march 100 miles--about 10,000 died |
| Potsdam Declaration | Allied leaders told Japan to surrender or face"prompt and utter destruction" |
| Island Hopping | capture of islands and using them as a stepping stone for the next battle |
