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| Communist Dictator of Russia, successor of Lenin. |
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| Total government control of all aspects of life in a country. |
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| Italian Facist dictator who ruled during WW2. |
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| Totalarian political policy revolving around total dictartor's control over the details of a person's life. |
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| Facist Dictator of Germany, responsible for the outbreak of WW2. |
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| Socialist movement that swept into power in Germany. Hitler's club. |
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| Laws passed by U.S. demanding non-intervention in Europe by isolationists. |
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| Early (wimpy) leader of England who was later deposed by a robust Churchill. |
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| Englands leader after Chamberlain, led Britan through WW1. |
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| Giving Germany what it wanted in hopes that it would keep them from wanting more; to avoid war. (FAIL) |
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| A pact between 2 nations to avoid war going to war, can be tied in with some appeasement. |
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| "Lightning Warfare", explosive invasions that were used for success by Nazi Germany. |
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| French General and later President, exiled to England when France fell. |
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| Nazi extermination event, with 6 million Jews killed in various ways. |
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| "Night of Broken Glass", Nazi destruction of over a thousand Jewish Synagouges, an unknown number of Jews. |
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| Mass extermination of a human race. |
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| Camps Jews were sent to to endure labor, starvation, and ultimate death. |
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| Germany, Italy, and Japan |
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| Act in which material, money were leased to allied nations from the U.S. to aid the war effort. |
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| Agreement by the allies at the beginning of the war to provide fair policies for Europe after the war should end. |
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| U.S., Britain, France, Russia, and China. |
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| U.S.military General in Europe during WW2 and author of the Marshall Plan, which provided money to Europe for reconstruction. |
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| Prime Minister of Japan during WW2, executed for his war crimes. |
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| Japanese people born in another country. |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| Regulation organization to limit prices of goods and serivices in the outbreak of WW2. |
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| Agency used to force companies to produce war materials, and secure supplies needed to conduct war. |
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| Forcibly limiting consumtion of goods,usually with food and fuel. |
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| 5-star American general, led the D-Day invasion and later became president of the U.S. |
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| Allied invasion of Nazi occupied Europe. |
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| U.S. General in North Africa during WW2, decisively defeated Nazis. |
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| U.S. president after Roosevelt died, popularized the phrase "the buck stops here". Must have been a countray boy. |
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| Nazi's last ditch attempt to regain its collapsed western front. Failed. |
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| End of the war in Europe, Nazi's surrender. |
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| U.S. pacific theatre army general. Successful leader. Smoked a pipe. |
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| Navy Commander in the Pacific. Successful. |
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| Suicide Japanese who flew their planes into allied warships in hopes of sinking them. |
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| Government funded project to develop the atomic bomb. Secretive. |
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| Theoretical Physicist who is considered "The father of the atomic bomb." |
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| City destroyed by the Atomic Bomb. In Japan. |
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| Second, smaller Japanese city destroyed by another atomic bomb. |
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| Meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill to discuss Post-War Europe. |
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| Founded to prevent war between nations after WW2. |
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| Provided education to soldiers after the war, and loans to start businesses and pay for homes. |
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| Japanese American Citizens League. Sought to protect J-American rights before, during, and after WW2. |
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| U.S. supreme court case in which Fred Korematsu claimed the U.S. government decision to intern Japanese citizens in camps was unconstitutional. He Lost. |
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