Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict

Germany, Italy, Japan

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.

Germany invaded, breaking their agreement, so Britain and France declared war, starting World War II

German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945), Nazi leader and founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust

Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945)

Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition

Is the name given to the air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF).

7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II.

The war in the Pacific, most islands were involved, Japan tried to take these islands and sent 65 bombing raids all the way to Australia.

The Holocaust took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. Six million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaberators. Miliions of non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti(Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities, homosexuals and Jehova's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis.

Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug 8th, 1945.

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

(FDR) , June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy.

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President of fear for the nation's security.

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

Led the allied invasion of North Africa and planned and executed the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the battle of the budge; Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany for the purpose of killing prisoners immediately.

a device or system consisting usually of a synchronized radio transmitter and receiver that emits radio waves and processes their reflections for display and is used especially for detecting and locating objects (as aircraft) or surface features (as of a planet)

- 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II

AFTER its defeat in World War II, Germany was divided into four zones under the control of the United States, Britain, France and the former Soviet Union. The division, nevertheless, was provisional

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict.

American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.

The commander of the United States Navy in the Pacific.

Army Chief of Staff General who pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Also created the Marshall plan for rebuilding Europe.

Famous American General who fought in North Africa and Europe.

Citizens planted gardens to make their own vegetables to conserve more food for the troops

All African American air squadron that will distinguish themselves in combat during WWII

American pilots who volunteered to fight for China

young Navajo men who transmitted secret communications on the battlefields of World War II

a work written about an event by someone who is one or more steps removed from the event

A national policy of avoiding/ abstaining involvement in world affairs

worst period of economic decline in United States history, beginning in 1929-1933 ending with US entry into WWII.

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

restricting the amount of an item an individual can have due to a limited supply

worked in factories while men fought, provided supplies, dangerous work

organization founded in 1945 to promote peace

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II