WWII Terms---Shafer---Whitehall
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| Soviet leader during WWII. Purged, or got rid of all who opposed him. | Joseph Stalin
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| Wrote Mein Kampf. Fascist leader of Germany | Adolf Hitler
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| National Socialist party of Germany. | Nazi
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| Discrimination or hatred of Jews. | Anti-Semitism
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| Locations where Germans sent Jews and undesirables to work and be exterminated. | Concentration Camps
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| Most famous and horrific of Nazi death camps. | Auschwitz
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| Called Operation Overlord. Allied invasion of France | D-Day
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| Policy of given in to demands. | Appeasement
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| Fascist leader of Italy. Friend of Adolf Hitler | Benito Mussolini
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| The idea of keeping peace or avoiding conflict. | Pacifism
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| Fascist leader of Spain. | Francisco Franco
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| Considered superior group to other groups. Nazi's wanted to get rid of those who didn't fit into this group. | Aryan Race
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| Leader of Britain at the start of WWII. Signed the Munich Aggrement and supported appeasement. | Neville Chamberlain
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| Agreement between European leaders prior to WWII. Gave in to Hitlers demands. | Munich Conference
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| Line of defenses created by the French prior to WWII. | Maginot Line
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| Agreement between Stalin and Hitler to not fight each other. | Non Agression Pact/Treaty
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| Means "Lightning War". German plan of attack | Blitzkrieg
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| Attack on Great Britain by Germany. Sometimes called the London Blitz | Operation Sea Lion
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| Name for allied invasion of France. | Operation Overlord
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| Royal British Air Force | RAF
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| German Air Force | Luftwaffe
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| German attack of Soviet Union | Operation Barbarossa
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| Used to influnce peoples opinion on given subjects. | Propaganda
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| American President at start of WWII. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| Event that brought the US into WWII. | Pearl Harbor
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| Date of attack on Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7 1941
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| Germany, Italy, Japan | Axis Powers
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| France, GB, Russia. America will enter the war in support of the Allies in 1941. | Allied Powers
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| Battle for N. Africa. Major tank conflict between British and Germans. | El Alamein
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| Horrific battle for key Russian city. Nazi's lost as many as 300,000 troops here. | Stalingrad
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| Means "divine wind". Japanese suicide pilots. | Kamikaze
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| Major American victory at sea. Major parts of Japanese navy destroyed. | Battle of Midway
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| Emporer of Japan | Hirohito
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| Attempt to exterminate Jews and undesirables during WWII | Holocaust
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| Names of American atomic bombs. | Little Boy and Fat Man
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| Last stage of Holocaust | "the final solution"
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