| Term | Definition |
|---|
| totalitarianism | when the government(or dictator) has TOTAL control of the country; ex: Germany, Italy, USSR |
| Nazi | the political group that took over Germany |
| appeasement | giving someone or country what they want in return for peace |
| lend-lease program | a program where U.S. supplied Britain, USSR, France & China with war materials |
| blitzkrieg | a sudden violent attack (Germans used this) |
| Holocaust | where Jews, Gypsies, and many others were exterminated |
| Manhattan project | a project where scientists worked to make an atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | the places in Japan where U.S. dropped atomic bombs |
| Franklin Roosevelt | president of the USA during the Great Depression & WWII |
| Harry Truman | FDR's vice prez. took over when he died. made the decision to drop the atomic bomb |
| Dwight Eisnehower | 5-star rank. became prez. head of army. planed D-day |
| Douglas MacArthur | an american general of Philippine Army, Accepted Japan's surrender |
| Hideki Tojo | Japan's prime minister. ordered attack on pearl harbor |
| Adolf Hitler | dictator of Germany |
| Winston Churchill | prime minister of Britain |
| Mussolini | dictator of italy |
| Joseph Stalin | Russian dictator of USSR |
| WWII ended the Great Depression | What impact did WWII have on the Great Depression |
| America, England, USSR, Canada, France | the allies |
| Nazi Germany, Japan, Italy | the axis |
| union jack | the British flag |
| rationing, moving, war bonds, higher taxes, people were drafted | Impact on everyday people |
| more job opertunties, responsibilities, and freedom | impact on women |
| great migration, increase of job oppertunities, fought in war | impact on African Americans |
| battle of britain | the air battle between the British and Germans, the Germans tried to knock the british out of the war but it didnt work |
| pearl harbor | the Japanese attack on pearl harbor that pulled America into the war |
| d-day | the allied invasion of France |
| stalingrad | when USSR stopped the German invasion of Russia and started getting back at Germany |
| Battle of the bulge | last German offensive against the invading allies, Germany lost |
| MIdway | first major American victory over the Japanese |
| iwo Jina | a battle over an island that the us wanted to use as a air base |
| okinawa | last battle against Japan before the Atomic bomb |
| Germany was depressed; hitler rose to power; totalitarianism | what were the causes of WWII |
| to make Japan surrender | Why did US drop the atomic bomb |
| They were moved to concentrationcamps | What happened to Japanese Americans? |
| Atomic age, United Nations, Germany was split, USSR and US were world powers, Japan controlled by US | What were some results of the war? |
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