| A | B |
|---|
Churchill, FDR, Stalin,  | Allied leaders |
Adolf Hitler,  | Germany's fascist dictator |
 | Japan's naval flag |
atomic bombs,  | U.S. dropped two of these on Japan |
 | Nazi flag |
| ...caused the U.S. to enter WWII | Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor |
Rosie the Riveter,  | Encouraged women to work in the factories while men were at war |
| Political instability and economic devastation in Europe resulting from World War I | Causes of World War II |
| Fascism | A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied. |
Hideki Tojo,  | Japan's military leader |
Mussolini,  | Italy's fascist dictator |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| The Allies | United States, Great Britain, Canada (and later the USSR) |
Winston Churchill,  | British Prime Minister during WWII |
Joseph Stalin,  | Soviet leader |
FDR,  | U.S. President from 1932-1945 |
| December 7, 1941 | Date of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
| German invasion of Poland | Event that set off WWII |
| Battle of Britain | Germany bombed London |
| Battle of Midway | Turning point of the war in the Pacific |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Turning point of the war in Eastern Europe |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 - U.S. and Allied troops land in Normandy |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these Japanese cities |
| The Holocaust | The murder of six million Jews and millions of others by Nazis |
| Anti-Semitism | Hostility towards or prejudice against Jews |
| Aryan supremacy | Hitler's belief that light-skinned Europeans were racially superior |
| Japanese Americans | These Americans were treated with distrust and prejudice, and many were forced into internment camps |
