World War 2 Review

A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Kamikaze

• Winston Churchill

• Benito Mussolini

Detention centers where Japanese Americans were relocated after Pearl Harbor

• Interment Camps

• Allied Powers

• Final Solution

• Rosie the Riveter

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

• Final Solution

• Allied Powers

• Interment Camps

• Island Hopping

Austrian-born founder of the German Nazi Party and chancellor of the Third Reich (1933-1945). His fascist philosophy, embodied in Mein Kampf (1925-1927), attracted widespread support, and after 1934 he ruled as an absolute dictator. His regime was infamous for the extermination of millions of people, especially European Jews. He committed suicide when the collapse of the Third Reich was imminent (1945).

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Benito Mussolini

• Adolf Hitler

• Winston Churchill

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non- conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

• Holocaust

• Kristallnacht

• Appeasement

• Rationing

Extreme nationalism focused on mainly military power to control the people. It is also based on militaristic ideals of "courage, unquestioning obedience to authority, discipline, and physical strength."

• Nazism

• Fascism

• Rationing

• Final Solution

32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII

• Kamikaze

• Benito Mussolini

• Winston Churchill

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

(1883-1945) Italian leader. He founded the Italian Fascist Party, and sided with Hitler and Germany in World War II. In 1945 he was overthrown and assassinated by the Italian Resistance.

• Benito Mussolini

• Kamikaze

• Winston Churchill

• Douglas MacArthur

An aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance.

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Britain

• Battle of Guadalcanal

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

• Concentration Camp

• Winston Churchill

• Douglas MacArthur

• Benito Mussolini