Set: World War II

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Term Definition
dictator Leader with complete control of a country's government.
fascism Form of government in which individual freedoms are denied and the government has complete power.
Axis Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
Allies Alliance among Great Britain, France, the United States, Canada, the Soviet Union, and other nations during World War II.
World War II War fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allies and the Axis, involving most countries in the world. The United States joined the Allies in 1941, helping them to victory.
Lend-Lease Policy that allowed Great Britain to borrow military supplies from the United States during World War II.
rationing Government limiting of the amount of food each person in the United States could buy during World War II.
Tuskeegee Airmen First African American fighter pilots.
atomic bomb Type of bomb built during World War II that was more powerful than any built before it.
Manhattan Project Code name given to the effort to build an atomic bomb in the United States.
Battle of Midway World War II naval battle between the United States and Japan in 1942, which weekened the Japanese threat in the Pacafic.
Battle of Stalingrad Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union.
Battle of the Bulge World War II battle in December 1944 between Germany and Allied troops that was the last German offensive in the West.
concentration camp Prison in which the Nazis enslaved and murdered millions of Jews and other groups during World War II.
Holocaust Murder of twelve million people involving six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
Women's Army Corps People in the WAC were taught how to send military codes. They could also be sent to jobs close to battles as nurses. More than three hundred fifty thousand women were sent to the WAC.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. He graduated from the West Point Military Acadamy. He founded the Tuskeegee Airmen after the Air Force said that there couldn't be black pilots. He later became the first general in the United States Air Force.
The Japanese Amaricans and Executive Order #9066 When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, many Americans thought that the Japanese-Americans had something to do with the attack. FDR signed Executive Order #9066. This allowed military to put the Japanese Americans in relocation camps.
Albert Einstien Einstien was a Jew who escaped Germany because of the threat of the Holocaust. He was a scientest who told America that he could help build an atomic bomb, but Germany was also in this process.
Los Alamos, New Mexico A young scientest named Phillip Morrison worked on the Manhattan Project with other scientests in Los Alamos. By July, 1945, they were ready to test the world's first atomic bomc.

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Created January 28, 2008
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