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Winston Churchill
British politician who was Prime Minister of te United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1950 to 1955. -
Dictator
A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force. -
Fraqnklin D Rossevelt
He was an American statesman and a policical leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States -
Benito Mussolini
An Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. -
Harry S. Truman
33rd president of the United States. He succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Rossevelt died months after of declining in health -
Adolf Hitler
He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
Propaganda
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view -
U.S. declares Neutrality
Woodrow Wilson addressed congress and made public the US policy od neutrality. During this, he warned the US citizens agsinst taking sides in the war for fear of endangering the wider US policy. -
Vernon Baker
US Army officer who recieved the Medal of Honor for his valorus actions during WWII -
Nazism
The body of political doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government predominance of especially Germanic groups. -
Fascism
a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominemce in early 20th-century Europe. -
Audie Murphy
One of the most decorated AMerican combat soldier of WWII, recieving every military combat award for valor avaliable from the US army. -
Rape of Nanking
Mass murder and mass rape committed by japanese troops against the residents of nanking during the second Sino-Japanese war. -
Women's Roles in WWII
The Women's roles in WWII was them making the ships and planes and all the weapons that the men used during the war. The women basically won the war for them. -
War Bonds and Rationing
This was introduced to avoid public anger with shortages not to allow only te wealthy to purchase commodities -
Lend Lease Act
Was a program under which the United States supplied Free France, Great Britain, The Republic of China, and later the USSR and other allied nations with food, oil, and material between 1941 and August 1945. -
Pearl Harbor
Surprise military attack conducted by the Imperial Japanese Army against the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7th -
Japanese-American Interment Camps
Japanese and Americans were rounded up and shipped of to interment camps. They were consisted of poorly-constructed barracks surrounded by barbed wire, sentry posts and armed guards. -
Victory Gardens
Vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany. -
Office of War Information
To attract US citizens to jobs in support of the war effort, the goverment created the office of war information some six months after the paerl harbor bombing. -
Fire Bombing of Dresden
A series of allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden reducing the "Florence of the Elbe" to rubble and flames, and illing as many as 135,000 people.
