General Hideki Tojo
• Prime Minister of Japan

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• President of the United States during WWII

Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin
• Dictator of Soviet Union

Benito Mussolini
• Dictator of Italy

Winston Churchill
• Prime Minister of Great Britain

What countries belonged to the Allied
Powers (4)
• France
• Great Britain
• Soviet Union
• United States

What countries belonged to the Axis
Powers (3)
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

• Giving in to Hitler’s demands inorder to avoid war

• “Lightning War” Modern style of fighting used by Germany. Fast paced

• Extreme nationalism….used in Italy

Lend Lease Act
• U.S. can sell weapons to countries at war if it is in the best interest of the U.S.

Mein Kampf
• Book written by Hitler that stresses hatred of
Jews and wanted revenge for the Treaty of
Versailles

Munich Agreement
• Chamberlain gives Hitler the Sudetenland if he promises to stop attacking lands

• Political Party started by Hitler in Germany

Neutrality Acts
• Passed in 1935-37 that stated U.S. could NOT sell weapons to countries at war.

Non-Aggression Pact
• Agreement between Germany & Soviet Union not to attack each other.

Phony War
• Time between war being declared by Britain &
France in September of 1939 and actual fighting against Germany that begins in April of 1940

Selective Service Act
• First ever peace time draft in U.S. history