World War II (CH 27)
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- Tuskegee Airmen
- African American fighter pilots who trained in Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II
- Nazi-Soviet Pact
- agreement signed between Hitler and Stalin in 1939 in which the two dictators agreed not to attack each other
- rationing
- limitations on the amoung of certain goods that people can buy
- aggression
- warlike act by one country without just cause
- Operation Overlord
- code name for the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944
- Good Neighbor Policy
- President Franklin Roosevelt's policy intended to strengthen friendly relations with Latin America
- Fascism
- political system that is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state
- D-Day
- (June 6, 1944) day of the invasion of Western Europe by Alllied forces
- Potsdam Declaration
- message sent by the Allies in 1945 calling for Japanese surrender
- bracero program
- recruitment of Mexican laborers to work in the United States during World War II
- Axis
- World War II military alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan, and six other nations
- victory garden
- during World War II, vegetable garden planted to combat food shortages in the United States
- Bataan Death March
- long trek across the Philippines that American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to make by the Japanese in 1942
- Allies
- World War II military alliance of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and 45 other countries
- Rosie the Riveter
- fictional factory worker who became a symbol of working women during World War II
- Holocaust
- slaughter of Europe's Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II
- island hopping
- during World War II, Allied strategy of capturing Japanese-help islands to gain control of the Pacific
- scapegoat
- person or group who is made to bear the blame for others
- compensation
- payment for losses
- Atlantic Charter
- a 1941 program developed by the United States and Britain that set goals for the postwar world
- appeasement
- practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war
- Lend-Lease Act
- during World War II, the law that allowed the United States to sell arms and equipment to Britain
- totalitarian state
- country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of people's lives
- "Double V" campaign
- African American civil rights campaign during World War II
- Navajo code-talkers
- during World War II, Navajo soldiers who used their own language to radio vital messages during the island-hopping campaign
- War Production Board
- government agency created during World War II to help factories shift from making consumer goods to making war materials
- Munich Conference
- a 1938 meeting of the leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germeny at which an agreement was signed giving part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler
- Battle of the Bulge
- German counterattack in December 1944 that temporarily slowed the Allied invasion of Germany
- blitzkrieg
- the swift attacks launched by Germany during World War II
- Nazis
- members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party
- kamikaze
- World War II Japanese pilot trained to make a suicidal crash attack, usually upon a ship
- concentration camp
- prison camp for civilians who are considered enemies of the state
- Battle of Midway
- a 1942 battle in the Pacific during which American planes sank four Japanese aircraft carriers
- Battle of Britain
- Germeny's failed attempt to subdue Britain in 1940 in preparation for invasion
- Nuremberg Trials
- Nazi war crimes trials held in 1945 and 1946
- Neutrality Acts
- series of laws passed by Congress in 1935 that banned arms sales or loans to countries at war