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Benito Mussolini

A former newspaper editor and facist who seized power in italy

Adolph Hitler

Took advantage of the German peoples resentment over WW1 to win support for his Nazi Party and gained power in 1933

Tojo

Militarist who was the prime minister of Japan in WW1

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister who rallied the British public to resist against German Invasion

Harry Truman

Won the presidential elect of 1945

Navajo Code Talkers

Native Americans who were used in communications in the pacific

Tuskegee Airman

1000 black pilots were trained at tuskegee alabma, has one of the lowest loss records of all time

Munich Agreement

Treaty between great britain, france, and germany that allowed hitler to invade sudetenland if he didnt touch poland

Nonaggression treaty

Suppossedly gauranteed peace between germany and the soviet union

Neutrality Act

Prohibited the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the US to foreign nationa

Lend Lease Act

The president could send aid to any nation whose defense was considered vital to the US, once sent to britain

Arcadia Conference

Held in washington DC, western allies agreed to a “germany first” policy to govern global startegy

Fair Deal

Ensured the survival of social security, preserved the american welfare system, and prioritized civil rights legislation

Servicemen’s readjustment act

Also known as the G.I. Bill, provided funds for college, housing, etc, to ww2 soldiers

Bracero Project

Agreement between the US and Mexican Governmwnrs that permitted mexican citizens to take agricultural work in the US

Manhattan Project

Secret project to develop the atomic bomb

United Nations

Proposal of an international organization comrpriaing an assembly of all member stayes and 10-member executives to discuss social and economic issues

The axis powers

Composed of Germany, Italy, and Japan after signing the Tripartite pact

The Grand Alliance

Composed of the US, Great Britain, and The Soviet Union

War Production Board

Redirected raw materials and resources from the production of civilian goods to the production of materials needed for waging war against Germany and Japan

Stalingrad

Major battle on the Eastern Front off WW2, considered the turning point of the war

Operation Torch

US landed in Tunisia, as they helped turn the tide of war decisively against the Axis forcing the Germans and Italians to retreat to sicily

Pearl Harbor

Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet seriously damaging over a dozen naval vessels and propelling the US into war

D-Day

Codename OVERLORD, invasion of normandy in occupied France

Battle of the Bulge

Marks the last german offense in the Western Front

Midway

Fought mostly entirely with aircrafts, considered the turning point in the war in the pacific

Guadalcanal

First major offense of the US against Japan,US won ending all japanese expansion attempts

What country did Hitler annex in 1938?

Austria

In 1936, where did hitler move his troops into?

Rhineland

Poland

The inavsion of it by Hitler started WW2 in Europe, fell in a month, caused for France and Great Britain to declare war on Germany.

Iwo Jima

First Japanese home islan to be targeted by US Forces

Hiroshima

Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped resultinf in the deaths of 66,000 people.

Nagasaki

Second japanese city where bomb got dropped, 39,000 dead

The Bataan Death March

Surrender of US and Phillipino troops, forced to march to POW camps, 650 americans and 16,500 phillipinos died

The phillipines

Was attacked alongaide pearl harbor distraction, caused the largest surrender of US troops 78,000 troops

Okinawa

The site of the largest battle in the pacific, it was also the deadliest.

North Africa

Demanded early action against European members of the Axis, eased the pressure on hard pressed soviet armies and checked the threatened advance of german power in the middle east

Battle of Britain

Battle that lasted from july to october, where thousands of german planes bombed british airfields and cities

Which countries did Italy invade in the 1930s

Abyssnia and Albania

The Holocaust

Hitler portrayed jews as a major reason for Germanys financial problems and began implementing laws and policies that were descriminatory against Jews

How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust

Six million jewish people

Facism

Political system headed by a dictator in whcih the government controls business and labor and opposition is not permitted

Internment

Policy of moving U.S. citizens of german, italy, and japanese descent into camps within the US in order to limit the risk of espionage against the US

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Declares that huamn rights are universal to be enjoyed by all people no matter who they are or where they live. lists all basic rights

Island Hopping

Skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance