World War II Vocabulary

A symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war.

• Uncle Sam
• Cornelia Fort
• Rosie the Riveter
• Rosie the Citizen

Prime minister of Japan during World War II. He gave his approval for the attack on Pearl Harbor and played a major role in Japan's military decisions until he resigned in 1944.

• Hideki Tojo
• Cornelia Fort
• Rosie the Riveter
• Samari Warrior

Americans were encouraged to grow their own vegetables to support the war effort.

• Victory Farms
• Victory Gardens
• Farmer's Market
• Uncle Sam gardents

Battleship that was hit in the attack on Pearl Harbor. It sunk and remains an underwater graveyard and memorial today.

• USS Tennessee
• The Farragut
• The Lusitania
• USS Arizona

A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and no tolerance of opposition

• Fascism

• Nazism

• Totalitarianism

• Democracy

Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during WW II.

• USS Arizona

• Allied Powers

• Holocaust

• Axis Powers

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator.

• Totalitarianism

• Nazism

• Allied Powers

• Rationing

Surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941.

• Allied Powers

• USS Arizona

• Japanese Internment

• Pearl Harbor

Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast during WW II were sent to "War Relocation Centers" in remote areas.

• Japanese Internment

• The Manhattan Project

• Axis Powers

• Allied Powers.

Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s.

• Totalitarianism

• Fascism

• Nazism

• Rationing