Modern U.S history World War 2

Italian leader. He founded the Italian Fascist Party, and sided with Hitler and Germany in World War II. In 1945 he was overthrown and assassinated by the Italian Resistance.

A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition

Leader Russia's Bolshevik movement.

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

government owned farms

German Nazi dictator during World War II

The Chinese province invaded and overrun by the Japanese army in 1932

Outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war

Germany, Italy, Japan

Extended bans on arms sales and loans engaged on civil war

When Japan attacked china (ally of the U.S) it became more difficult to stay neutral

The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving to prevent war

Unification of Austria and Germany

an area in western Czechoslovakia that was coveted by Hitler

Representatives of Britain, France and Italy met in Munich to talk about Hitler's expansion

agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland

A secret agreement between the Germans and the Russians that said that they would not attack each other

lightning war

A line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany.

German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war

Evacuation of Dunkirk

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

led the Free French government

German Air Force

Hebrew word for Holocaust meaning catastrophe

established legal basis in Nazi Germany for discrimination against Jews.

Chief minister of the Nazi propaganda, and organizer of Kristallnacht

"Night of Broken Glass"

German secret police

1942 conference in Germany concerning the plan to murder European Jews

Healthy individuals would work here until death of exhaustion

Nazi camps equipped with gassing facilities for mass murder of Jews

one of the first and largest Nazi concentration camps

They wanted to protect America before we went to war in another country

The laws passed by the U.S. allowing us to give aid to our Allies in early WWII

the entire western half of the Atlantic Ocean that Roosevelt declared as neutral territory

Committed both nations to a postwar world or democracy, nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement and freedom

the government agreed to pay a company whatever it cost to make a product plus a guaranteed percentage of the costs as profit

built liberty ships

To set priority and production goals

cordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort

World War II unit made up of Japanese American volunteers

African American strategy to defeat Hitler's racism abroad as well as racism at home

famous segregated unit of African-American pilots

1st director of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.

Wanted as nurses, ambulance drivers and radio operators

Commander of American naval forces in the Pacific

American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.

Brutal march of American and Filipino prisoners by Japanese soldiers in 1942

the fortified island which guarded the entrance to Manila Bay

Lieutenant colonel in command of the mission to bomb Tokyo

Planned the attack on Pearl Harbor

German commander in North Africa

a system in which merchant ships travel with naval vessels for protection

America's leading black labor leader who called for a march on Washington D.C. to protest factories' refusals to hire African Americans

Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms

a new industrial region

coordinated all government housing programs

a series of riots during which Mexican Americans were attacked by whites

Clothing worn by Mexican-Americans which used lots of material

a men's suit with no vest, no cuffs, a short jacket, and narrow lapels, worn during World War II in order to save fabric for the war effort

Japanese-American who sued the United States for the relocating the Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor

FDR and Churchill agree to step up the bombing in Germany

meeting of the Big Three to discuss the final attack on Germany (met in Germany)

Operation overboard (freeing France) largest amphibious operation in military history

American general who led the ground forces at D Day

Native Americans from the Navajo tribe used their own language to make a code for the U.S. military that the Japanese could not desipher

amphibious tractor

first U.S. land victory over the Japanese (death island)

Japanese suicide pilots

Hitlers one last desperate offensive where he was attacked by both sides

Victory in Europe Day

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

One of the Bloodiest battles in the war, a fight to the death for Japanese soldiers, as the Americans were coming closer to Japan

A jellied gasoline used for bombs

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

Victory in Japan

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

Trials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime

Series of trials set up to try Japanese officers and officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in World War II