World War II
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1.
Adolf
Hitler
5.
fascist dictator of Germany, responsible for
Holocaust
2.
Axis
Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
6.
Albert
Einstein
Battle of
Midway
major turning point in the war against Japan
which stopped Japan's advance
7.
Battle of
the Bulge
developed the theory that led to the creation of
atomic weapons; worked on the Manhattan Project
3.
Allied
Powers
largest battle ever fought by U.S. Army, Allied
victory
U.S., England (Great Britain), Soviet Union
4.
8.
D-Day
atomic
weapons
day allied forces landed in Normandy, France in a
final push to end war in Europe
U.S. dropped these on Japan forcing Japan to
surrender
9.
Equator
12.
Harry
Truman
an imaginary line that divides the earth into the
Northern and Southern Hemispheres
10.
Fireside
Chats
president at the end of WWII who made decision
to drop atomic weapons on Japan
13.
Hideki
Tojo
FDR spoke to America by radio to keep the home
front informed and their spirits up during WWII
11.
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
military leader of Japan
14.
president of the U.S. during the Great Depression
and WWII
Holocaust
systematic killing of 12,000,000 people (about
half were Jews)
15.
Japanese
Internment
19.
longitude
distance east or west of the prime meridian,
measured in degrees
over 110,000 Japanese Americans were placed
in prisons during WWII because there were
fears that they would be loyal to Japan and
betray the U.S.
16.
20.
Manhattan
Project
Joseph
Stalin
effort by the United States to develop the first
atomic bomb
21.
Pearl
Harbor
dictator of USSR (Soviet Union)
17.
latitude
where Japan attacked the U.S.and caused U.S.
to enter WWII
22.
Prime
Meridian
distance north or south of the Equator,
measured in degrees
18.
Lend-Lease
Act
the imaginary line that divides the earth in the
eastern and western hemisphere, at 0 degrees
longitude
U.S. produced military equipment for the Allies;
the increase in weapon production helped pull
the U.S. out of the Great Depression
23.
propaganda
26.
*used by ALLIED powers to convince people to
help with the war effort
*used by AXIS powers to convince Germans
that anti-Semitism was good
24.
Rosie the
Riveter
symbol that encouraged American women to
work in factories
25.
Tuskegee
Airmen
first African-American fighter pilots; trained in
Tuskegee, AL
*proved they were war heroes
United
Nations
50 countries came together to form this organization
whose goal was to help countries find peaceful
solutions to conflicts
27.
World
War II
War fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allies
and the Axis powers
*Began when England and France declared war on
Germany because Germany invaded Poland
*United States joined the Allies in 1941, helping
them to victory