Vocabulary
Who were the Axis Powers?
Germany, Japan, & Italy
Which country did Germany invade in 1939?
Poland
Battle of Britain was primarily fought where?
In the air
Leader of Germany who wanted to unite all German-speaking peoples
Adolf Hitler
Executive order that forced the removal of all Japanese-Americans from the West Coast
Executive Order 9066
Code name for the D-Day air-land-sea invasion of Normandy France.
Operation Overlord
Which country was led by Mussolini and wanted to become a power in the Mediterranean and Africa?
Italy
Code name for the invasion of North Africa
Operation Torch
Ruthless leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
Joseph Stalin
Tuskegee Airmen
What did Roosevelt call the US in regards to the Lend-Lease Act?
The Arsenal of Democracy
Which 2 cities had the atomic bomb dropped on them?
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Battle that was the turning point on the Eastern Front (Soviet Union)
Battle of Stalingrad
General of Allied Troops fighting in Europe
Dwight Eisenhower
Name for the female propaganda poster that encouraged women to join the workforce
Rosie the Riveter
What is the Manhattan Project?
Place where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to plan post-war Europe
Yalta
Battle in the Pacific that was so bloody it caused Truman to decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
President who decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Group of men who used their native language as a code in the Pacific
Navajo Code Talkers
When a government controls all parts of it's citizens lives (where to work, what to wear, etc)
Totalitarianism
Which 2 countries did Hitler annex in 1938?
Austria & Czechoslovakia
Last chance offensive by the Germans in Belgium in 1944
Battle of the Bulge
Military leader of Japan during WWII
Hideki Tojo
The only living black American World War II veteran to receive the Medal of Honor
Vernon Baker