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Preble SS11: Ch 26
World War II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist leader |
| fascism | political philosophy that advocates a strong nationalistic dictatorship |
| Adolf Hitler | German dictator; Nazi Party head |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of the Soviet Union 1924-1953 |
| Axis | the Rome-Berlin Axis; the alliance between Mussolini and Hitler, later joined by Japan |
| appeasement | meeting demands of a hostile power in order to aviod war |
| Blitzkrieg | German "lightning war" tactics |
| Lend-Lease Act | allowed the United States to lend weapons to allies |
| Pearl Harbor | U.S. naval base attacked by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941 |
| D-Day | Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1945 |
| General Dwight Eisenhower | Supreme Allied Commander in Europe |
| Stalingrad | Soviet city where the German army was forced to surrender after a battle that lasted for months |
| Battle of the Bulge | final German assault in December 1944 in Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxemburg |
| Yalta conference | conference where Allies planned the post-war world |
| Holocaust | Nazi German crime of killing more than 11 million Jews and other persecuted people in concentration camps |
| anti-Semitism | prejudice against Jews |
| War Production Board | government agency set up during World War II to coordinate the production of military equipment and supplies |
| Japanese-American Internment | the removal of Japanese Americans from the West to prison camps during World War II |
| war bonds | loans that the government promised to repay with interest |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan from 1926-1989 |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister during World War II |
| Battle of Midway | U. S. victory over Japanese off Midway island that proved to be the turning point of the war |
| Island Hopping | Allied strategy in Pacific of invading selected islands, and using them as bases to advance closer to Japan |
| Manhattan Project | top-secret government project to develop the atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city that was hit with the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 |
| Code Talkers | Navajo Indians recruited by the U. S. Marine Corps to transmit messages in the Navajo language |
| Israel | Middle East nation whose capital is Jerusalem |
| Harry Truman | U. S. president from 1945-1953 |
| Marshall Plan | U. S. plan developed by George C. Marshall to help boost the economies of European nations after the war |
| Potsdam Conference | Allies' meeting in Potsdam, Germany to plan the end of the war |
| Nuremberg Trials | war crime trials of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Germany |
| United Nations | international peacekeeping body founded by 50 nations in April 1945 |
| G. I. Bill of Rights | government bill that paid for veterans' education and living expenses |
| communism | single-party political system in which the government controls and plans the economy with the goal of common ownership of all property |
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