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21st | repealed (cancelled) the 18th amendment in the 1930's |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 |