Double Sided Study Guide 5/16/11
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Facism | political system based on a strong centralized government headed by a dictator |
| Adolf Hitler | This dictator was the leader of the Nazi Party. He believed that strong leadership was required to save Germanic society, which was at risk due to Jewish, socialist, democratic, and liberal forces. |
| Josef Stalin | dictator of the Soviet Union, turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the US during Great Depression and World War II |
| Harry S. Truman | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb |
| Winston Churchill | Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid |
| Benito Mussoloni | 40th Prime Minister of Italy |
| Hideki Tojo | Japan's prime minister. ordered attack on pearl harbor |
| Munich Agreement | agreement between Chamberlain and Hitler that Germany would not conquer any more land, and if did, would declare war |
| Lend Lease Act | allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S |
| Atlantic Charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII amd to work for peace after the war |
| Axis Powers | in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936. |
| Allied Powers | world war I alliance of Britian, France, and Russia, and later joined by Italy, the United States, and others. |
| Navajo Codebreakers | Native Millitary people. |
| Tuskegee Airmen | all black unit of fighter pilots. trained in Tuskegee Alabama. won many awards for bravery and never lost a single pilot |
| Manhattan Project | Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. Much of the early research was done in New York City by refugee physicists in the United States. |
| Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. |
| Japanese Internment | fear of Japanese-Americans as traitors, sent off (by law) to internment camps; removal of deemed threats in military areas |
| The Holocaust | The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps. |
| Rationing | a limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war |
| Yalta Conference | Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of WW2 |
| Nurenburg Trials | trials where Nazi war criminals were tried and punished |
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