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wwII
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the US when the war started |
| Adolf Hitler | Dictator of Germany/Leader of the Nazi party |
| Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister (Leader) of the British Government |
| Hideki Tojo | Leader of japan |
| Joseph Stalin | Dictator of Russia (USSR) - Union of Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Admiral Chester Nimitz | commander of the U.S. pacific Fleet |
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commander of all of the Allied Forces. Would later become president of the U.S. |
| 13th | Abolished slavery |
| 14th | gave African Americans Citizenship and the right to equal protection under the law |
| 15th | gave all made citizenship the right to vote including African Americans |
| 16th | gave congress the right to tax income |
| 18th | outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| 19th | Gave woman the right to vote. Passed in 1919. |
| 21st | repealed (cancelled) the 18th amendment in the 1930's |
| General George S. Patton | Led U.S. Forces in the Battle of the Bulge and the march to Germany |
| General Douglas MacArthur | Planned the strategy of islands hopping. Gain control of the islands in the pacific from Japan and use them as American bases. |
| President Harry S. Truman | FDR dies suddenly and VP Truman is sworn in as president. Will lead US through the end of the war. |
| Anne Frank | 13 year old Jewish girl from the Netherlands. Hid with her family for nearly 2 years in a hiding place over her father's office. |
| Allied Powers | Britain, France, United States, some smaller Countries |
| Axis Power | Germany,Italy,Japan |
| Dictator | A leader who gains complete control of a country's government,often by forces or intimidation |
| Fascism | A form of government where individual freedoms are denied and complete power is given to the government |
| Lend-Lease | The U.S. let Britain borrow all of the military supplies it needed to fight the Axis and did not ask for payment |
| Rationing | Government limiting the amount of food, gasoline,etc that people could buy |
| Victory Gardens | small vegetable gardens planted to help increase the amount of food available in the countries |
| Atomic bomb | Massive explosive devise made by splitting atoms |
| Manhattan Project | Government code name for the development pf the bomb |
| Holocaust | Widespread destruction. Nazis killed over 6 million Jews in concentration camps during the war. |
| Concentration Camps | confinement camps where Nazis sent the Jewish people they captured |
| Battle of Midway | major turning point in the war against Japan. Small island near Hawaii. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Germans tried to take over and destroyed it. |
| Battle of lwo Jima | Iwo Jima, Japan: February 1945 |
| VE Day | Victory in Europ Day : May 8 1945 |
| Invasion of Normandy | Normandy, France: Force of 175,000 Allied |
| Hiroshima, Japan | August 6, 1945. Air force bomber plane Enola Gay dropped a atomic bomb on the City |
| VJ Day | Victory in Japan: August 14, 1945 |
| Costs of war | Bloodiest war in the history of the world |
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