World War 2

Lend-Lease Act

Allowed the US to give arms to countries (like Great Britain) vital to protecting the US.

Battle of Britain

Battle of British and German air forces fought over Britain during 1940-1941

Axis Powers

Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.

Allied Powers

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.

Blitzkrieg

"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

Pearl Harbor

American military base in Hawaii which was attacked by Japanese in WWII

Manhattan Project

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

D-Day

Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944

Stalingrad

Battle in which the Nazi advance east through Russia was halted.

El Alamein

British defeat Germans; turning point in North Africa.

Tuskegee Airmen

All African American air squadron that will distinguish themselves in combat during WWII

Rosie the Riveter

The nickname of women who worked in factories supporting the war effort

Midway

Turning point battle in the Pacific during WW2.

Island Hopping

American strategy of capturing selected islands in the Pacific in a steady path to Japan

Iwo Jima

American invasion to get a base near the coast of japan

Okinawa

A campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945)

Hiroshima

Japanese city that was hit with the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945

Anti-Semitism

Prejudice against Jews

Kristallnacht

"Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany

Genocide

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Auschwitz

Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust.

Nuremberg Trials

Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity, held in Nuremberg, Germany

Bataan Death March

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

Geneva Convention

Governs the treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war

Japanese Internment

Forced Relocation of Japanese-Americans into prison camps during World War 2.