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leader of the ussr
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Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
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They no longer wanted to rely heavily on the U.S for resources and decided Manchuria was ideal for a Japanese expansion since it was already fighting a civil war between nationalists, communists and warlords.
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systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews including 1.5 million Jewish children in Europe by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
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leader of germany
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The policy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt toward Latin America. The policy reversed a previous attitude of interventionism in the internal affairs of Latin American nations.
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research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
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becomes leader of itlay
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limit international involvement
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itlay took over ethiopia for more power
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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Appeasement expressed the widespread British desire to heal the wounds of World War I and to correct what many British officials regarded as the injustices of the Versailles Treaty.
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Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe.
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sign a nonaggression pact
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pitted U-boats and other warships of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) and aircraft of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) against the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, and Allied merchant shipping.
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The cash-and-carry policy was a WWII policy under Roosevelt. It allowed the sale of material to belligerent countries, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport and paid immediately in cash.
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Blitzkrieg means "lightning war". Blitzkrieg was first used by the Germans in World War Two and was a tactic based on speed and surprise and needed a military force to be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry (foot soldiers).
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became prime minister of great britain
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Native Americans who served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. Their mission was to send and receive secret coded messages that the enemy could not understand.
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name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
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established the Axis Powers of World War II.
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Four kinds of freedom mentioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech in 1941 as worth fighting for: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
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the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war. the two-way transfer of ideas, styles, etc
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joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland.
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originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.
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surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
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The Double V was intended to accomplish two things: victory over the Axis powers abroad and victory over Jim Crow and racism at home.
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first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. During World War II, African Americans in many U.S. states were still subject to the Jim Crow laws and the American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government.
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During World War II, the American government put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, fearing they might be loyal to Japan.
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cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplie
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the Bataan Death March was the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II. The 63-mile march began with 72,000* prisoners from the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines
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first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese home islands during WWII. The mission is notable in that it was the only operation in which U.S. Army Air Forces bombers were launched from an aircraft carrier into combat.
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member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later the WAC) formed in 1942, now no longer a separate branch.
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A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor.
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major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union.
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Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War
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10-day meeting during World War II between President Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain
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measure enacted by the U.S. Congress, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto, giving the president power to seize and operate privately owned war plants when an actual or threatened strike or lockout interfered with war ...
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The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran,
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World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, MacArthur was in charge of US and Filipino forces in the Philippines
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was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
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planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe
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military tribunals held by the victorious Allied forces following World War II in which many Nazi leaders were prosecuted for war crimes.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima, or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire
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The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II
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passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
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Allied victory in Europe
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Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
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Japan ceased fighting in World War II,
