World War II Flash Cards

A set of beliefs.

• Ideology

• Philosophy

• Theory

• Dogma

The controlled distribution of important foods and supplies to reserve limited supplies for the war effort.

• Rationing

• Subsidizing

• Stockpiling

• Distributing

A document that lists eight principles for a better world, composed in a meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941.

• Atlantic Charter

• Treaty of Versailles

• Magna Carta

• United Nations Charter

A directive or command issued by the President, that has the force of law.

• Executive Order

• Presidential Proclamation

• Legislative Act

• Judicial Ruling

An agreement Hitler made with the rulers of Great Britain, France and Italy, declaring Germany had the right to seize the Sudetenland a portion of Czechoslovakia.

• Munich Agreement

• Treaty of Versailles

• Pact of Steel

• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

The mass slaughter by the Nazi's of six million Jews and others during World War II.

• Genocide

• Holocaust

• Pogrom

• Ethnic Cleansing

A policy of making political compromises in order to avoid conflict.

• Diplomacy

• Appeasement

• Isolationism

• Aggression

A place where prisoners of war or members of persecuted minorities are confined; in World War II the camps where Jews and others were held and murdered by the Nazi's.

• Internment Camp

• Concentration Camp

• Refugee Camp

• Labor Camp

The code name for the US funded atomic weapons program during the 1940's.

• Manhattan Project

• Apollo Program

• Operation Overlord

• Project Blue Book

A series of laws which banned the United States from making loans with or transporting goods to hostile countries in an effort to avoid war.

• Neutrality Acts

• War Powers Act

• Lend-Lease Act

• Monroe Doctrine