WWII Vocabulary
This government program allowed the United States to send weapons and supplies to Allied nations.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This German dictator started World War II by invading Poland.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
The invasion of this country in 1939 started World War II.
What is Poland?
This surprise attack in 1941 brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
During the war, about 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps.
What are internment camps?
This strategy involved capturing some islands in the Pacific while skipping others to get closer to Japan.
What is Island Hopping?
This Italian dictator led a fascist government during World War II.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
Germany and the Soviet Union signed this agreement promising not to attack each other.
What is the Non-Aggression Pact?
This battle in the Soviet Union became a major turning point against Germany.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
This order allowed the U.S. government to relocate Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The day Allied troops landed in Normandy, France in 1944.
What is D-Day?
This Soviet leader ruled the USSR during World War II.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
This air battle occurred when Germany tried to bomb Britain into surrender.
What is the Battle of Britain?
This Pacific island battle is famous for the photo of U.S. Marines raising the American flag.
What is Iwo Jima?
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on this Japanese city.
What is Hiroshima?
This group of African American pilots served with distinction in World War II.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
This Asian country expanded its military power in the 1930s and attacked Pearl Harbor.
What is Japan?
Germany used this fast attack strategy with tanks and planes.
What is Blitzkrieg?
This battle helped the United States stop Japan’s naval power in 1942.
What is the Battle of Midway?
The second atomic bomb was dropped on this city.
What is Nagasaki?
The secret U.S. project that created the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
A government ruled by a single leader with total control.
What is a dictatorship?
This country fell quickly to Germany in 1940.
What is France?
The Allied invasion of Normandy that helped liberate Western Europe.
What is D-Day?
International agreements created after WWII to protect civilians and prisoners of war.
What is the Geneva Convention?