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Joseph Stalin
Leader of Communist Soviet Union. Believed in the eventual rule by the working class
Totalitarian Government
Individuals have no rights and the government suppresses all opposition
Benito Mussolini
Leader of Fascist Italy
Fascism
Stressed nationalism and placed the interest of the state above those of individuals. Thought power should rest with one leader and a small group of party members
Adolf Hitler
Leader of Nazi Germany
Nazism
The German brand of Fascism that was based on extreme nationalism
Francisco Franco
Leader of a group of Spanish army officers who rebelled against the Spanish republic
Neutrality Acts
1935: The first two acts outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war. The third act extended the ban on arms sales and loans to nations engaged in civil wars
Neville Chamberlain
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Winston Churchill
Chamberlain's political rival in Great Britain
Appeasement
Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor. Churchill thought the Munich Agreement was appeasement
Nonaggression Pact
Fascist Germany and Communist Russia agreed to never attack each other
Blitzkrieg
A technique of lightning war used by the Germans
Charles de Gaulle
French general who fled to England where he set up a government-in-exile
Holocaust
The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews
Kristallnacht
November 9-10, 1938: "Night of Broken Glass" where Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany
Genocide
The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population
Ghettos
Segregated Jewish areas in certain Polish cities
Concentration Camps
Labor camps that Jews were sent to
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy and Japan. AKA the Tripartite Pact
Lend-Lease Act
March 1941: The president would lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the United States"
Atlantic Charter
A joint declaration of war aims agreed by Roosevelt and Churchill that was signed by 26 nations
Allies
The nations that had fought the Axis Powers
Hideki Tojo
Chief of staff of Japan's Kwantung Army who launched the invasion into China
George Marshall
Army Chief of Staff General who supported the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
Women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions
A. Philip Randolph
President and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the nation's most respected African-American labor leader. Organized a march on Washington to protest discrimination
Manhattan Project
The code name for research work to develop the atomic bomb
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods
War Production Board (WPB)
Decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries
Rationing
Establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American General who commanded Operation Torch, an invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa
D-Day
June 6, 1944: Code-named Operation Overlord. British, American and Canadian troops planned to attack Normandy in northern France
Omar Bradley
General who unleashed massive air and land bombardment against the enemy at St. Lo which provided a gap in the German line of defense
George Patton
General who led his Third Army in D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
The last German offensive. German tanks created a bulge in the lines but the Germans had been pushed back
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day
Harry S. Truman
The 33rd president of the United States. Came to power after Roosevelt's death
Douglas MacArthur
General who was in command of Allied forces in the Philippines
Chester Nimitz
The commander of American naval forces in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
Turning point in the Pacific War where the Allies began "island hopping." They won territory back from the Japanese
Kamikaze
Suicide-plane attack in which Japanese pilots crashed their planes into Allied ships
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American scientist who helped with the development of the atomic bomb
Hiroshima
An important Japanese military center which was the location for the first dropping of the atomic bomb, Little Boy
Nagasaki
Another city in Japan which was the location of the second dropping of the atomic bomb, Fat Man
Nuremberg Trials
The defendants included Hitler's most trusted party officials, government ministers, military leaders and powerful industrialists.
GI Bill of Rights
Provided education and training for veterans, paid for by the federal government
James Farmer
Civil rights leader who founded an organization called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
An organization that confronted urban segregation in the North
Internment
Confinement. Most commonly used when it comes to Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
Pushed the government to compensate those sent to the camps for their lost property