WWII Vocabulary

When a government completely controls its country's economy, culture, and people lives

• dictator

• fascism

• mobilize

• newsreel

A ruler who has total control of a country and its people

• fascism

• dictator

• racism

• mobolize

The idea that one race, or group of people, is better than all other races

• newsreel

• dictator

• fascism

• racism

To get ready to fight

• atomic bomb

• dictator

• newsreel

• mobolize

A short film about current events

• Newsreel

• mobolize

• racism

• fascism

A place where prisoners are held during wartime in the US

• mobolize

• racism

• Internment camp

• aircraft carrier

A large ship that carries airplanes far from land

• concentration camp

• internment camp

• atomic bomb

• aircraft carrier

A powerful bomb that can destroy an entire city

• atomic bomb

• concentration camp

• racism

• newsreel

A place where large numbers of people are held prisoner and forced to work and are starved and killed by Hitler

• concentration camp

• internment camp

• racism

• fascism

Group of African American pilots who flew successful flights over Italy during WWII

• Rosie the Riveter

• Tuskegee Airmen

• concentration camp

• newsreel