1. Vocabulary Words

2. Treaty of Versailles
The agreement that ended World War I and put most of the blame for World War I on Germany

3. Adolf Hitler
Chancellor of Germany in 1932,leader of the NAZI party and became dictator. He was the leader of Germany during World War II.

4. Dictator
A ruler with total power over a country.

5. Totalitarian
A type of government which the leader has absolute control over all aspects of life.

6. Benito Mussolini
Dictator of Italy during World War II. He allied himself with Adolf Hitler.

7. Josef Stalin
Was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid 1920s to He was a dictator and denied his people any freedoms. He was known as one of the Big Three.

8. Nazi
National Socialist German Worker’s Party, the political party active in Germany from 1920 to Hitler became their leader

9. Imperialism
A stronger region takes over a weaker region for resources and land.

10. aggression
An attack on a country without cause or reason.

11. Haile Salassie
Ethiopian emperor from

12. appeasement
A diplomatic policy of giving something up to an enemy to avoid a conflict
Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference. Chamberlain and others agreed to give Hitler land if he would stop invading countries.

13. Alliance
Two or more groups join together to strengthen their power or for some other benefit.

14. Anti Semitism
Hatred of Jewish people

15. Blitzkreig
Lightening War. To attack and take your enemy over quickly

16. Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War 2 and part of the Big Three.

17. Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the US during the Great Depression and WW2. He was the only President elected to 4 terms as President. He was known as one of the Big Three.

18. Neutrality Acts
A series of laws passed from forbidding the government from selling ammunition, weapons and other war supplies to Europe.

19. Unprecedented
Never been done before

20. Tuskegee Airman
A segregated unit of bomber pilots

21. Pearl Harbor
A naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, It was the event that caused the US to enter the WW II.

22. Internment Camp
Relocation camps that Japanese Americans were forced to live in for the entire World War 2 time period.

23. Mobilization
The act of a government and citizens to prepare for war.

24. ration
To limit the amount of goods a person can buy. Used during World War 2 to help with resources for soldiers.

25. Rosie the Riveter
American icon that represents the women who worked in factory during World War II.

26. Zoot Suit Riot
A series of racist attacks in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California between Mexican youths and white American service men.

27. Braceros
Mexican laborers that came into the US to help farmers harvest crops.

28. Navajo Code Talkers
Native Americans who used their tradition language as a means of a secret way of communicating during World War II

29. Propaganda
Information that is on sided and misleading

30. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The US general that planned and led the D-day invasion. He became the 34th President of the US

31. Normandy Beach The French coast landing point of the D-day invasion.
World War II

32. Yalta Conference
This conference was to decide what was to happen to Germany and Europe at the end of World War II
The big three attending the Yalta Conference

33. Harry Truman
The 33 President of the US after the death of President Franklin Roosevelt.

34. Potsdam Conference
Meeting to discuss Germany after they surrendered. Also discussed was Japan unconditional surrender.

35. Baatan Death March
70,000 US and Filipino POWs were forced to march 60 miles by the Japanese Army. 15,000 POW died on the march.

36. Island hopping
A battle plan in the Pacific to move from one island to another to set up an invasion of Japan.

37. Kamikaze
A Japanese airplane loaded with explosives that would deliberately dive into targets

38. Manhattan project
A secret research and development during WWII that produced the first nuclear weapons.

39. Hiroshima
The city that was bombed by the Atomic bomb. Hoping to end World War 2