7th Grade US History - Chapter 23 - Vocabulary

Britain and France in World War II.

• Allies

• Axis Powers

• Fascism

• Nazi Party

The practice of giving into Hitler's demands prior to World War II.

• appeasement

• fascism

• kamikaze

• rationed

An alliance of Italy, Germany, and Japan prior to World War II.

• Allies

• Axis Powers

• Fascism

• Nazi Party

"Lightning war"; a new type of warfare introduced by Germany in World War II.

• blitzkrieg

• kamikaze

• rationed

• Okinawa

Americans who sincerely believed that war was wrong.

• conscientious objectors

• kamikaze

• Iwo Jima

• Nazi Party

The beginning of Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944 when Allied paratroopers and soldiers in gliders began landing behind German lines in Normandy, France.

• D-Day

• V-E Day

• Pearl Harbor

• Manhattan Project

On April 8, 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, sixteen B-52 bonders under the command of Jimmy Doolittle flew from the aircraft carrier Hornet and shocked the Japanese by dropping bombs on Tokyo.

• Doolittle Raid

• Pearl Harbor

• D-Day

• V-E Day

Economic and political system in which the totalitarian government allowed private ownership of property but heavily regulated all economic activity

• Allies

• Axis Powers

• Fascism

• Nazi Party

The Japanese city that the U.S. dropped the first uranium bomb on August 6, 1945; the bomb was nicknamed "Little Boy".

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• Iwo Jima

• Okinawa

A small island, only seven hundred miles from Tokyo, that was a station from which the Japanese could intercept American bombers that were headed for Japan.

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• Iwo Jima

• Okinawa