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| Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee |
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| characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control |
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| founded the Italian Fascist Party in 1919, annexed Abyssinia in 1936, and entered World War II on Germany's side |
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| An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization |
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| dictator of Germany who pltted against Jews |
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| a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader |
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| Banned sales of weapons to countries at war |
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| British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany |
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| British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War |
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| acceding to the demands of |
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| The pact signed in 1939 by Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled a one- front war when Germany started World War II. |
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| An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory |
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| French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile |
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| The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime |
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| The occasion of concerted violence by Nazis throughout Germany and Austria against Jews and their property |
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| The deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group |
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| A place where large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution |
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| Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War I |
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| was the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 |
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| A declaration of eight common principles in international relations drawn up by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941, which provided the ideological basis for the United Nations organization |
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| A group of nations taking military action together, in particular the countries that fought with the US in World War I and World War II |
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| was Prime Minister of Japan when the attack on Pearl Harbor |
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| United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program |
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| A person born in the US or Canada whose parents were immigrants from Japan |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| The functions of the OPA were originally to control prices and rents after the outbreak of World War II |
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| The War Production Board (WPB) was established as a government agency on January 16, 1942 by executive order of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| where someone or something has a fixed amount of something |
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| 34th president of us, led the fight to Normandy |
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| Allied forces invaded northern France by going dropping on their beaches, happened in Normandy |
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| ww2 General, was well known due to his outspokeness |
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| was the vice president, and was the 33rd president of the us. Authorized the use of atom bombs on japan |
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| allied victory in Europe (may 8) |
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| accepted the surrender of Japan |
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| general, used aircraft carriers to destroy the japanese Navy |
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| airplane loaded with explosive and deliberatly ran into things to destroy them, the aircraft controller commiting suicide by doing so |
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| project that created and tested the atom bomb |
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| Directed the Los Alamos, created the first atom bomb |
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| The first area that the us hit with the atom bomb, killed 300k people |
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| 2nd area the be bombed by the atom bomb, led the japans surrender |
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| Created to help bring together all the nations so that instead of fighting things could be settled over discussion and reason |
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| a bill that gave college "scholarships" basically to returning war veterans |
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| created to defend the right of japanese americans |
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