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| Dictator of Italy during WWII |
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| Dictator of Germany during WWII |
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| Prime Minister of England during WWII |
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| Leader of the Free French during WWII |
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| President of the US during WWII |
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| Vice President of FDR who ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Japan |
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| Military leader of Japan during WWII |
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| American scientist who headed the "Manhattan Project" |
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| Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII |
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| Image of the working women during WWII |
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| American general who led the campaign to retake the Philippines |
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| Planned the D-Day invasion |
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| Played important role in the defeat of the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge |
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| A program designed to help England without actually selling weapons to England |
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| The strategy used by the US military in the Pacific in which some heavily populated islands were bypassed to save American lives |
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| A strategy used by the German military in which they attacked their enemies quickly (Lightning War) -used to conquer most of Europe between 1939 and 1940 |
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| The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact |
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| An agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in which the Soviets agreed not to interfere with Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. In return, the Soviets received part of Poland and three other Eastern European countries |
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| The secret project in which the atomic bomb was created |
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| Two Japanese cities that were destroyed by the US using the atomic bomb |
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| Two Japanese held islands in which the Marines faced fierce frightening in the retaking of these islands |
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| American naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by the Japanese. This attack brought the US into WWII |
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| A battle between the Germans and Soviets in which the Soviets defeated the Germans and began forcing the Germans out of the USSR (turning point battle) |
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| The date of the D-Day invasion |
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| The date the Japanese attacked US Navy at Pearl Harbor |
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| A German plan to kill all the Jews in Europe |
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| The killing of six million Jews by the Germans during WWII |
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| The first American Naval victory against the Japanese during WWII (turning point) |
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| American Indians who were radio operators in the Pacific who communicated using their native language |
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| Name given to Japanese suicide pilots during WWII |
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| Program used in the US during WWII in which gas and food was limited to certain quantities to each citizen |
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| Gardens planted by Americans to add to their diets due to rationing |
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| Order issued by FDR which ordered the confinement of Japanese Americans in internment camps during WWII |
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| Camps in which Japanese American citizens were locked up during WWII |
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| A conference held by the Allies toward the end of the war in Europe in which Germany would be divided among the Allies following WWII |
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| A world organization founded at the end of WWII to settle disputes between nations in order to avoid war |
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