Vocab
a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.
Dictator
Fascist leader of Italy
Mussolini
September 1, 1939
Date WWII began with German invasion of Poland
Axis Powers
Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Payment for war damages
Reparations
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII
Winston Churchill
December 7, 1941
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Allied Powers
Great Britain, France, Soviet Union and later the US
Blitzkrieg
"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces
allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S
Lend-Lease Act
sent messages in their native language in the Pacific front
Navajo Code Talkers
June 6, 1944
D-Day
American General who began in North Africa and became the Commander of Allied forces in Europe. Later went on to become president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
Manhattan Project
Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
Genocide
Big 3
FDR, Churchill, Stalin
May 8, 1945
V-E Day; when Germany officially surrenders
Battle of British and German air forces fought over Britain during 1940-1941. Lasted for 5 months. Invasion was prevented by the Royal Air Force.
Battle of Britain
Europe First Strategy
It was a strategy used to make Germany fight a two front war. Implemented because Roosevelt saw Germany as their biggest and long term threat.
A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others
Island hopping
Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb
Harry Truman
September 2, 1945
V-J Day; when Japan officially surrenders. End of WW2
A 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War II.
Battle of the Bulge
Atlantic Charter
Agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941 that said that every nation controlled by the Axis Powers should have the right to choose it's own government