WWII Vocabulary

leader of the Nazi party and dictator of Germany around the time of World War II

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

• Benito Mussolini

• Hideki Tojo

agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union not to attack each other and a secret agreement to divide Poland between them

• Appeasement

• Atlantic Charter

• Non-Aggression Pact

• Cash-and-Carry

an agreement between FDR and Churchill about how a postwar world should look; became the basis for the United Nations

• Good Neighbor Policy

• Munich Agreement

• Appeasement

• Atlantic Charter

“Victory in Europe Day,” May 8, 1945; The day Germany surrendered and war in Europe was over.

• V-J Day

• D-Day

• V-E Day

a government’s policy of not interfering with other countries

• Non-intervention

• Interventionism

• Embargo

• Blitzkrieg

a U.S. policy to sell goods to belligerent nations as long as they paid cash and picked up the materials on their own ships

• Atlantic Charter

• Cash-and-Carry

• Blitzkrieg

• Holocaust

leader of the Fascist Party and dictator of Italy in the World War II era

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

• Benito Mussolini

• Hideki Tojo

lightning war; tactic used by Germans to quickly take territory

• Holocaust

• Dictatorship

• Blitzkrieg

• D-Day

the extermination of 6 million European Jewish people, as well as others deemed “undesirable” by the Nazis

• Holocaust

• Japanese Internment

• Dictatorship

• Axis Powers

Allied invasion of France; Normandy invasion

• D-Day (Operation Overlord)

• V-J Day

• V-E Day

• June Day