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| Leaders who ruled their nations by force |
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| extreme nationalism and racism |
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| leader of the nazi party. 1933 became chancellor of german |
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| a single party controls government and supperesses all opposition and controls all aspects of peoples' lives |
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| the communists dictator of the soviet union after lennin's death in 1924 |
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| giving into agression in order to avoid further conflict |
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| soviet-german non-aggression pact |
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| stalin (soviet union) and hitler (germany) signed and agreement promising not to attack each other |
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| "lightning war". reffered to the attack of poland by germany |
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| allied powers (the allies) |
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| by the end of the war it included britain, france, the soviet union, the US, china, and 45 other nations |
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| italy (until 1945), japan, german, six other nations |
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| prime minister of great britain during WW2 |
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| passed by congress in 1941. allowed sales or loans of war materials to "any country whose defense, the president deems vital to the defense of the US" |
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| sunday, december 7, 1941. American military base in hawaii attacked by japanese war planes |
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| many resouces and goods were needed for the war so consumers would buy only limited numbers of them |
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| many people joined to help with the war effort. it was protective measures in case of an attack |
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| 1st african-americans to qualify as military pilots in any branch of armed forces |
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| the president directed the army to relocate more than 100,000 japanese americans to camps within the US |
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| Korematsu Vs. United States |
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| the US supreme court upheld the order of providing the relocation of japanese americans |
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| "Operation overlord". a massive invasion of france by the allies |
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| marked the end of a series of german resistance (france- near the border of germany) |
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| the nazi's systematic killing of 6 million jews |
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| The war fought on the Pacific |
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| US general in the pacific |
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| A military strategy which called for attacking and capturing certain key islands, leapfrogging and moveing closer to the phillipines and japan |
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| Hiroshima- August 6, 1945. Nagasaki- August 9, 1945. American dropped the atomic bomb on these cities. |
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