WW2 overview and home front impact

Totalitarianism

Form of govt. with complete power over individuals

Stalin

Leader of USSR promoting communism

Fascism

Political ideology of Mussolini in Italy

Nazism

Political ideology of Hitler in Germany

Hirohito

Japanese Emperor during WWII

Lebensraum

Nazi ideology for territorial expansion

Manchuria

Chinese province invaded by Japan in 1931

Ethiopia

Country invaded by Italy in 1935

Rhineland

Region in West Germany re-militarized by Hitler

Anschluss

Annexation of Austria by Germany

Sudetenland

Region in Czechoslovakia demanded by Hitler

Munich Conference

Meeting resulting in Hitler gaining Sudetenland

Appeasement

Policy to satisfy aggressors to avoid conflict

Blitzkrieg

Swift military attack strategy used by Germany

Lend-Lease

U.S. supplies to Allies during WWII

Axis Powers

Alliance of Italy, Germany, and Japan

Pearl Harbor

U.S. naval base bombed by Japan in 1941

D-Day

Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944

Holocaust

Genocide of 6 million Jews by Nazis

V-E Day

Victory in Europe Day, Germany surrenders

V-J Day

Victory over Japan Day, end of WWII

WAAC

Women's Auxiliary Army Corps

Manhattan Project

Development of the atomic bomb

FEPC

Commission against employment discrimination

Internment

Forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans