WWII vocab 2026

Fascist party

•  giving into aggression in order to avoid further conflict

• Mussolini's political party; advocated extreme Italian nationalism, and launched a program of terrorism and intimidation against any opponents.

• banned arms sales or loans to countries at war

• a form of government that attempts to impose total control over the lives of its citizens through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom.

totalitarianism

•  giving into aggression in order to avoid further conflict

• Mussolini's political party; advocated extreme Italian nationalism, and launched a program of terrorism and intimidation against any opponents.

• banned arms sales or loans to countries at war

• a form of government that attempts to impose total control over the lives of its citizens through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom.

Lend-Lease Act

• meeting between Britain, France, and Germany in 1938, where Britain and France appeased Hitler.  Hitler promised that he did not want any more territory. He was lying.

• Hitler and Stalin agreed not to attack each other; secretly they decided to divide Poland and other parts of E. Europe

• allowed sales or loans of war materials only to the Allies

• Allied nations issued a warning to Japan to surrender or face "prompt and utter destruction".

appeasement

•  giving into aggression in order to avoid further conflict

• Mussolini's political party; advocated extreme Italian nationalism, and launched a program of terrorism and intimidation against any opponents.

• banned arms sales or loans to countries at war

• a form of government that attempts to impose total control over the lives of its citizens through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom.

Nazi Soviet Pact

• meeting between Britain, France, and Germany in 1938, where Britain and France appeased Hitler.  Hitler promised that he did not want any more territory. He was lying.

• Hitler and Stalin agreed not to attack each other; secretly they decided to divide Poland and other parts of E. Europe

• allowed sales or loans of war materials only to the Allies

• Allied nations issued a warning to Japan to surrender or face "prompt and utter destruction".

Neutrality Act

•  giving into aggression in order to avoid further conflict

• Mussolini's political party; advocated extreme Italian nationalism, and launched a program of terrorism and intimidation against any opponents.

• banned arms sales or loans to countries at war

• a form of government that attempts to impose total control over the lives of its citizens through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom.

Manhattan Project

• Japanese-Americans were forced to live in crowded barracks surrounded by armed guards.

• the creation and testing of the Atomic bomb

• nearly 1 in 3 Native Americans fought in WWII; Navajos used their language as a code for sending crucial messages; codes could not be broken.

Internment Camps

• Japanese-Americans were forced to live in crowded barracks surrounded by armed guards.

• the creation and testing of the Atomic bomb

• nearly 1 in 3 Native Americans fought in WWII; Navajos used their language as a code for sending crucial messages; codes could not be broken.

Anti-semitism

• organization to help keep world peace; two main goals: peace & human dignity; tries to deal with problems before they lead to fighting.

• intense prejudice and hatred of Jews

• trials held after WWII to try the Nazis for their war crimes and crimes against humanity that were committed during the Holocaust.

Nuremberg Trials

• organization to help keep world peace; two main goals: peace & human dignity; tries to deal with problems before they lead to fighting.

• intense prejudice and hatred of Jews

• trials held after WWII to try the Nazis for their war crimes and crimes against humanity that were committed during the Holocaust.