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  • Vernon Baker

    Vernon Baker
    A United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor, the highest military award given by the United States Government for his valorous actions during World War II.

  • Nazism

    Nazism
    This was a set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany. It started in the 1920s.

  • Fascism

    Fascism
    This was an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.

  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini
    He was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943.

  • Audie Murphy

    Audie Murphy
    He was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II.

  • FDR

    FDR
    This was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States.

  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party.

  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking
    A six-week period after Japan’s capture of Nanjing former capital of the Republic of China in 1937.

  • Womens Roles in WWII

    Womens Roles in WWII
    This soon became clear that the war was going to demand much more than the government had expected. Women could do the technical jobs normally performed by men, freeing those men for combat.

  • U.S. Declares Neutrality

    U.S. Declares Neutrality
    This was a formal announcement issued by President George Washington in May 1793, declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain.

  • Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill
    A British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

  • Victory Gardens

    Victory Gardens
    This was a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war.

  • Propaganda

    Propaganda
    Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act
    The principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.

  • Japanese American Internment Camps

    Japanese American Internment Camps
    This was putting a person in prison or other kind of detention, generally in wartime. Americans put Japanese americans fearing they were loyal to japan and would attack

  • Office of War Information

    Office of War Information
    This was a United States government agency created during World War II to consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad.

  • War Bonds and Rationing

    War Bonds and Rationing
    War bonds and stamps were sold to provide war funds, and the American people also united through volunteerism.

  • Fire Bombing of Dresden

    Fire Bombing of Dresden
    This is a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the "Florence of the Elbe" to rubble and flames, and killing as many as 135,000 people.

  • Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman
    The 33rd President of the United States. As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944.

  • Dictator

    Dictator
    A dictator is a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.