World War 2 Vocab

Blitzkrieg: Lightning War

F.D.R.: President of the U.S at the start of WWII

Harry Truman: President of the U.S. at the end of WWII

Benito Mussolini: Leader of Fascist Italy

Neville Chamberlain: “The Great Appeaser”

Fat Man & Little Boy: Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan

Battle of Stalingrad: Nazi’s first military defeat in Russia

Battle of Midway: Turning point of war in the Pacific

Adolf Hitler: Leader of the Nazi Party

Mein Kampf: My Struggle

Auschwitz: Extermination Camp

U.S.S. Missouri: U.S. Battleship where Japan surrendered

Hiroshima: 1st city U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on

Nagasaki: 2nd city U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on