Leaders
Adolf Hitler
Japan Bombs this US Naval Base
Pearl Harbor
Ultra nationalistic, Authoritarian government used by Hitler, Mussolini, and Francisco Franco
Fascism
Name of Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan
Axis Powers
Term for mass murder of a specific group of people
Genocide
President from Great Depression through most of the war
Franklin D Roosevelt
Allied invasion to retake France from the sea
D Day
Authoritarian left wing government where all property is owned by the state
Communism
"Big 3" Allied Countries
USA, United Kingdom, USSR
Name an opportunity the war provided American women
More employment opportunities since men were fighting, worked as nurses, spies, etc
Dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini
Two cities atomic bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Treaty the ended WWI, causes Germany's economy to collapse
Treaty of Versailles
Allied nation that falls early in the war
France
Two superpowers when the war is over
USSR and USA
President who replaces FDR, decides to drop atomic bombs
Harry Truman
Hitler betrays a nonaggression pact when he invades this nation and opens a second front in Europe
USSR (Soviet Union)
Policy Britain & France use in 1930s: Goal is to give Germany what they want so they stop being aggressive, the policy is considered a failure
appeasement
When Hitler invades this nation, Britain and France declare war
Poland
Court to try Holocaust perpetrators
Nuremberg Trials
Prime Minister of the UK during the war
Winston Churchill
Turning point in the Pacific (one of Chicago's airports is named after it)
Midway
American foreign policy when the war breaks out - goal is to focus on a nation's own problems rather than focus on other countries / the rest of the world
Isolationism
Document signed by Churchil and Roosevelt stating the US and UK share the same values and goals for the world
Atlantic Charter
International organization founded after WWII to promote peacekeeping