• This was signed by the Americans and the British at the beginning of the war. It was an American pledge to help Britatin during the war
Atlantic Charter
• The name of the secret plan to build the Atomic bomb.
Manhattan Project
• The form of government characterized by total control of the population. Stalin used it in Russia
Totalitarianism
• The meeting of FDR, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to discuss how Europe would be divided after the war.
Yalta Conference
• When a government uses images and media to influence a population
Propaganda
• Conserving and limiting the amount of products that people can buy is called______
Rationing
• This meeting saw the leaders of Britain and France cave in to Hitler’s demands for land.
Munich Conference
• When the government put Japanese citizens into concentration camps.
Internment
• On December 7th, 1941 Japan attacked this American Naval Base in Hawaii
PearlHarbor
• This period of time gets its name from the 25 Million children it brought into the US population.
Baby Boom
• To give someone something just to make them happy. The Munich Conference marked a time when Britain and France did this for Hitler.
Appeasement
• The American plan to get to mainland Japan by avoiding some islands and attacking others.
Island Hopping
• This term refers to the efforts that Americans went through to prepare the nation for war.
Mobilization
• The period of time following the Second World War that saw Americans fearing and even hating the Soviet Union.
The Cold War
• Literally meaning “Lightning War” this was the German tactic that was used to invade Poland and begin the Second World War
Blitzkrieg
• Located in Poland, this was the largest of the Nazi Death Camps.
Auschwitz
• Mussolini practiced this type of leadership, it is characterized by violence, nationalism and a single, powerful leader.
Fascism
• This international group was discussed in Yalta, formed in San Francisco. It’s intention is to give nations a place to discuss their differences instead of fighting.
The United Nations
• Literally meaning “Night of Broken Glass” this event occurred when Jewish businesses, homes and temples were vandalized all across Germany and Austria