Key Terms WWII

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    Benito Mussolini

    Prime minister from 1922 to 1945 of Italy. Mussolini fought for the Axis power during WWII influencing his people that they would once again be great. After the war he was drug through the streets and killed.
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    Audie Murphy

    Won the Medal of Honor for single handedly defending off a german company of soldiers in France injured and out of ammo.
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    Vernon Baker

    Awarded the medal of honor for his actions in Italy on April 5-6 1945 and was the last African American WWII veteran until his death in 2010.
  • Fascism

    Fascism

    Authoritaian system of goverment and social organization.
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    Adolf Hitler

    Austrian born politicial leader of Germany. Became chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1934 and led the Nazi Party in the Axis Power.
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    United states president between 1933 and 1945 fighting for the allied powers. Crippled and later led to his death near the end of the war.
  • Nazism

    Nazism

    National German Socialist under the control of Adolf Hitler establishing a dictatorship and defending against all opposition.
  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking

    Japanese invasion on eastern part of china killing thousands and raping thousands of women and children
  • U.S. declares Neutrality

    U.S. declares Neutrality

    1939 September United States declared Neutrality later sends Neutrality Patrols across the Atlantic Ocean
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    Winston Churchill

    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1940-145 and later between 1951 and 1955. Churchill fought with the allied powers and was only still alive in the war due being over water.
  • Japanese-American Interment Camps

    Japanese-American Interment Camps

    Camps to seperate Japanese americans after the bombing of Pearl harbor during WWII.
  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act

    Provided US military aid to foreign nations.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Surpise attack from Japan on costal island of Hawaii provoking United States to entering the war.
  • Victory Gardens

    Victory Gardens

    Victory Gardens were gardens grown in back yards, school yards, and open lots to grow their own food to help ration for the war.
  • War Bonds and Rationing

    War Bonds and Rationing

    Goverment sold war bonds during the war and many people rationed there food and had just enough to save for the war.
  • Office of War Information

    Office of War Information

    Paired with goverment to send propoganda back home and abroad.
  • Propaganda

    Propaganda

    Biased information that can be misleading to promote make public for a cause.
  • Women’s Roles in WWII

    Women’s Roles in WWII

    Many women during the war took jobs normaly held by a man such as factory workers.
  • Fire Bombing of Dresden

    Fire Bombing of Dresden

    Attack on Dresden in the final battles of WWII and caused consitent bombing.
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    Harry S. Truman

    Took of presidency of the United States after Franklin D. Roosevelt died after declining health and took over for the end of WWII
  • Dictator

    Dictator

    Ruler with total power over a country
    Ex. Hitler and Mussolini