Leaders
Made the supreme Allied commander in Europe
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Three way alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan
Axis Powers
Americans born of Japanese parents who had relocated to the US
Nisei
British politician who led in the fight against Hitler
Winston Churchill
General who fought the Germans in western Egypt
Bernard Montgomery
Led the defense of the Filipino Nation
General Douglas MacArthur
German Air Force
Luftwaffe
Great Britain, US, and other nations fighting the Axis powers
Allies
leader of sixteen pilot crews that dropped bombs on Tokyo
Colonel Jimmy Doolittle
Japanese general and prime minister who ran the country
Led the non-Communist Chinese fighters to defend their country.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Lightning war against Poland
civilians with aircraft who often flew along the Atlantic coast to guard the borders of America
Civil Air Patrol
Fascist Prime Minister of Italy
Benito Mussolini
German dictator who hated and wanted to destroy the Jewish people
Adolf Hitler
Thought to be a living god by the Japanese people
Emperor Hirohito
Tiny island that lies halfway between North America and Asia and was the turning point of the war in the Pacific
Midway
People who would do damage to hurt war production
president who decided to use the Atomic bomb on Japan
Harry Truman
leader who wanted China to become Communist like Russia
Mao Zedong
Pushed the Axis forces east in North Africa
General George Patton
Limit on the amount of an item each person could buy.
Ration
what the murder of Jews and other people in WWII is remembered as.
Holocaust
Communist dictator of Russia who threatened his own people
Joseph Stalin
president who asked the US congress to declare war on Japan
Franklin Roosevelt