World War II Vocabulary

Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the USA during WWII who were sent to camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's. interior

• Cornelia Fort

• Japanese Internment Camps

• Allied Powers

• Axis Powers

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

• Victory Gardens

• Pearl Harbor

• Totalitarianism

• USS Arizona

The Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler.

• Holocaust

• Fascism

• Rationing

• Nazism

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

• totalitarianism

• holocaust

• fascism

• rationing

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military.

• holocaust

• nazism

• fascism

• rationing

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.

• axis powers

• rationing

• Japanese internment

• allied powers

Short for the National Socialist Party, this was Adolf Hitler's version of fascism. It included the racist idea of creating a German "master race".

• holocaust

• fascism

• rationing

• nazism

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

• Pearl Harbor

• Rosie the Riveter

• Cornelia Fort

• Axis Powers

Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII

• Axis Powers

• Allied Powers

• Nazism

• Fascism

December 7, 1941 - a surprise attack by the Japanese on the main US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii. The US decalred war on Japan and Germany, entering the war after this event

• holocaust
• USS Arizona
• Pearl Harbor
• Cornelia Fort