World War II Vocabulary

An economic condition when money loses its value and prices rise.   (a)  

• Dictator
• Appeasement
• Inflation
• Rationing

A leader who rules with total authority in a cruel or brutal manner.Individual human rights and freedoms are restricted. (a)  

• Dictator
• Fascism
• Axis Powers
• Harry Truman

“National Socialist German Workers’ Party.” Hitler’s fascist party. Government during WWII. (a)  

• Communism
• Allies
• Fascism
• Nazi Party

A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied. (a)  

• Dictator
• Fascism
• Nazi Party
• Communism

Appeasement

• Accepting demands in order to avoid conflicts.

• The U.S. helped Great Britain by supplying ammunition & old warships in exchange for several military bases in Bermuda & the Caribbean. 

• A fictional character appearing on government posters encouraging women to help in the war effort.  

•  Consumers could buy only certain number of goods so that the majority of these goods could be sent abroad to aid in the war effort.

Communism

• Fearful of Japanese spies, more than 100,000 West Coast Japanese - Americans were sent to detention centers.  

• Mr. Carpenter's Classroom

• A government in which all economic and social activity is controlled by totalitarian leaders and one powerful political party.

• A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied.

Allies (of WWII)

• Germany, Italy, and Japan.

• China, India, Japan

• Great Britain, the USA, the USSR, and France.

• Africa, Austraila, Italy

Axis Powers (a)  

• China, North Korea, Cuba
• Germany, Italy, and Japan.
• Great Britain,  USA, and Canada
• USSR, France, Turkey

Pearl Harbor

• A Movie made in Hollywood

• Site of Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941

• Bombing in Japan

• Germany's surprise attack on Norway

Lend-Lease Policy

• The U.S. helped Great Britain by supplying ammunition & old warships in exchange for several military bases in Bermuda & the Caribbean. 

• Buying back used weapons from the enemy

• Consumers could buy only certain number of goods so that the majority of these goods could be sent abroad to aid in the war effort.

• A New Deal program meant to buy up odl farm equipment