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World War II
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of US when war started |
| Adolf Hitler | Dictator of Germany/Leader of 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 Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Admiral Chester Nimitz | Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet |
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commander of all the Allied Forces. Would later become the president of the U.S. |
| General George S. Patton | Led U.S. Forces in the Battle of the Bulge and the march to Germany |
| General Douglas MacArthur | Gained Control of the islands from Japan and used them as military for America to defeat Japan |
| President Harry S. Truman | FDR dies and suddenly and VP Truman is Sworn in as President and will lead US through the end of war |
| Anne Fran | 13 year old Jewish girl from the Netherlands hid with her family for nearly 2 years in 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 force 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 need to fight the Axis and didn't ask for payment |
| Rationing | government limiting the amount of food,gasoline, etc that people could buy. Stamps for products were sent out monthly |
| Victory Gardens | small vegetable gardens planted to help increase the amount of food available in the countries. They were in yard, even on rooftops |
| Atomic Bomb | massive explosive device made by splitting atoms |
| Manhattan Project | government code name for the development of the bomb |
| Holocaust | widespread destruction. Nazis killed over 6 million Jews in concentration camps during the war Hitler wanted to rid Europe of Jews |
| Concentration Camps | Confinement camps where Nazis sent the Jewish people they captured Jews were ether killed, worked, or starved to death |
| Battle of Midway | major turning point in war against Japan. Small island near Hawaii. Japan Wanted to destroy the Pacific Fleet |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Germans tried to take over city and destroy it.Soviet soldiers held and Germany had to surrender and were forced to retreat from Russia |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | Iwo Jima, Japan: February 1945. Small island in the Pacific, but the toughest for US Marines to take. |
| VE Day | Victory in Europe Day:May 8, 1945 |
| Invasion of Normandy | Normandy, France: Force of 175,000 Allied soldiers and 6.000 ships attacked on June 6, 1945 |
| Hiroshima, Japan | August 6, 1945. Air force bomber plane Enola Gay dropped atomic bomb on the city |
| VJ Day | Victory in Japan:August 14, 1945 |
| Cost of War | Bloodiest war in the history of the world, lost more than 400,000 US soldiers |
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