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World war two
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Benito Mussolini | Italian Fasoist Dictator |
| Adolf hitler | German dictator, Head of Nazi party |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924- 1953 |
| Neville Chamberlain | Prime minster of great Britain. Made the Munich agreement with Hitler |
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower | The Supreme allied commander in Europe. |
| Tuskegee Airman | Famous Segregated unit of African Americans |
| Code talkers | Navajo indians recruited by the U,S Marine Corps to transmit messages in the Navajo Laugeges |
| Pearl Harbor | U,S Navel base attacked by Japanese fourses on December 7, 1941. Les to americans joining the war effort. |
| D-Day | Allied infusion of France on June 6, 1944 |
| Yalta Conference | The Conference I which the allies planned to post war world. |
| Battle of the Bulge | The final German Assault in December, 1944 in the ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg. |
| Battle of Midway | The U.S. Victory over Japanese of Midway islands that proved to be turning point of the war. |
| Nuremberg Trails | The war crime trails of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Germany |
| Potsdam Conference | The allies meeting in Potsdam, Germany to plan the end of the war. |
| Lend-Lease Act | The act which allowed the U.S to lend weapons to the allies |
| Axis Powers | The Rome-Berlin Axis- the Alliences between Mussonini and Hitler later joined Japan. |
| Appeasement | The meeting of damands from Hostile power in order to avoid war. |
| Blitzkrieg | German "Lightning War" Tactics. in an effect to strike an opponent strategy and quickly |
| Holocaust | The Nazi German crime of killing more than 11 million Jews and other persecuted people's in Conceratrion Camps |
| Manhattan Project | The top-Secret Government Project to develope the atomic bomb |
| Genocide | The Delibert willing of large number of people from a particular nation or ethic group with the aim of Destroying that nations group. |
| Islands hopping | The allied stratergy in Pacific of invading selected islands and using them as bases to advance closer to Japan |
| Facism | Political Philopshy that advances a strong bation dictatorship |
| Totalitarianism | A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete Obedeieneeted to the state |
| Allied Powers (WW2) | The big three the United States, The sovion Unuion and the great Britain allied together during WW2. There Alliences brought about victory during WW2 |
| Capitalism | An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit , rather that by state. |
| Communism | An economic and political system in which The government plans and controls with the goal of commen ownership. |