World War 2 vocab Flashcards
Naval base in Hawaii that was hit in a surprise attack by Japan on December 7, 1941.
Pearl Harbor
Law that allowed the U.S to ship arms and supplies, without immediate payment to nations fighting the Axis powers.
Lend-Lease Act
Decision made by Britain, France and Italy to allow Hitler to receive the Sudetenland if he promised not to take the remainder of Czechoslovakia.
Munich Agreement
June 6, 1944. The date of the Allied invasion of France during World War II.
D-Day
the relocation of Japanese-Americans to detention centers following Pearl Harbor.
Internment
A ruler that has complete control in his country.
dictator
An international peace-keeping organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security and economic development.
United Nations
May 8, 1945. The day the war ended in Europe.
V-E Day
Giving into the demands of a hostile power in order to keep the peace.
Appeasement
Japanese suicide pilots
Kamikaze
the National Socialist German Worker’s Party that came to power under Hitler in the 1930’s.
Nazi Party
A political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator
Fascism
U.S President who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb to end World War II.
Harry Truman
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
the systematic killing by Germany during World War II of about 6 million Jews as well as millions from other ethnic groups
Holocaust
Fascist dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini
A meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill to discuss plans for the end of the war and the future of Europe
Yalta Conference
Nazi dictator of Germany
Adolf Hitler
Court proceedings after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes.
Nuremberg Trials
Policy of the U.S at the beginning of the war in which it would sell arms to countries fighting aggression if they paid in cash and took them away on their own ships.
Cash and Carry
