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A political system in which the government controls every aspect of the citizens' lives.
totalitarianism
These were African American pilots who trained in Alabama for combat mission in WW2.
Tuskegee Airmen
This allowed the president to aid any nation believed vital to U.S. defense.
Lend-Lease Act
This man led the U.S. pacific fleet. He was determined to stop the advance of the Japanese, and he had an important advantage.
Chester Nimitz
When American, British, and Canadian troops invaded France on June 6 1944.
D-Day
A military engagement in WW2 when the Germans quickly pushed the Allied forces back about 65 miles, creating a huge bulge in the Allied lines. This gave the battle its name.
Battle of the Bulge
The leader of Italy who was strong and who could bring stability to the country. He gained complete control of Italy in 1922
Benito Mussolini
This was formed by Hitler by signing an Alliance with Mussolini. Japan later joined this pact.
Axis Powers
Japan military leaders had already begun planning a large-scale attack to destroy the U.S. naval fleet stationed here.
Pearl Harbor
In LA in June of 1943, groups of sailors attacked Mexican Americans wearing unique clothing, which beginning this.
Zoot-suit riots
American and Japanese aircraft carriers and fighter planes clashed in this battle over water.
Battle of the Coral Sea
This man became president and immediately faced the challenge of winning the war in the Pacific.
Harry S. Truman
fascism
A policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving it to its commands.
Appeasement
They oversaw the conversion of factories to war production
War Production Board
The word for forced relocation and imprisonment.
internement
This engagement began on June 4, 1942, when Japan started bombing some American islands located between Hawaii and mainland Japan.
Battle of Midway
This was a program of mass murder that when Hitler and the Nazis attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe in the name of Aryan supremacy.
Holocaust
A politician and WW1 veteran who took advantage of public anger to gain power of Germany
Adolf Hitler
A Britiah admiral who was convinced that appeasment would not stop Hitler
Winston Churchill
An African American who began to protest against unfair treatment and began to organize a march to Wahsington, D.C, in 1941
A Philip Randolph
The engagement when the British stopped the Afrika Korps in July.
The battle of El Alemein
A strategy where allied forces took only the most important islands, instead of each Japanese-held island.
island hopping
The term given to the extermination of an entire group of people.
Genocide
The name of Hitler's national Socialist Party who gained a large following. Hitler became chancellor in 1933 and quickly seized all government power.
Nazis
Britian and France, known as this, declared war on Germany together
Allie powers
He became the first African American general in U.S. Air Force.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
He led the US and British troops ashore in Morocco and Algeria west of Egypt
Dwight D Eisenhower
This is the largest naval battle in history
Battle of Leyte Gulf
A secret program with the mission of creating an atomic bomb
Manhatten Project
As dictator of the Soviet Union, he terrorized those he saw as political enemies, killing and imprisoning millions of Soviet citizens.
Joseph Stalin
When more than 600 americans and about 10,000 Filipinos were killed while being ordered to walk.
Bataan Death March
The American general who led the Filipino and American troops but could not stop Japan's advance in the Philipines
Douglas MacArthur
This became a major turning point in the war- especially on the eastern front.
The Battle of Stalingrad
Japanese pilots who had the intention to striker US ships with a tactic of purposely crashing planes into enemy ships
kamikazee
A weapon that produces tremendous power by splitting atoms.
Atomic bomb