accepting demands in order to avoid conflict.

a leader who rules with total authority, often in a cruel or brutal manner.

hostility toward or discrimination against Jews.

A political system, headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no opposition.

______ rose to power as the Communist leader of the Soviet Union. He used force to obtain obedience from his people.

At the ______, British, and French leaders agreed to give the Sudetenland to Germany. Czechoslovakia was told t give up the Sudetenland or fight Germany on its own.

_____ won power by appealing to Italians wh resented that Italy had won little in the Versailles treaty. He made fascism-government characterized by militarism and racism popular.

gathering resources and preparing for war.

Protective measures taken in case of attack.

a detention center where Japanese Americans were moved to and confined during World War II.

to give out scarce items n a limited basis.

Who said, "We shall defend our island, water the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds...we shall never surrender"?

Great Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union

Germany, Italy, and Japan

On December 7, 1942, Japanese warplanes attacked the American military base at ____.

Roosevelt and Churchill issued the _____, outlining their goals for the postwar world. They agreed that their nations would seek no territorial gain from the war and emphasized the right of all people to choose their own government.

“lightning war” military tactic calculated to create psychological shock and resultant disorganization in enemy forces through the employment of surprise, speed, and superiority in matériel or firepower.

President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill urged _____ giving up military weapons and the creation of a "permanent system of general security."

A strategy that is known for attacking and capturing certain key islands.

The Japanese unleashed suicide pilots known as ______. They crashed planes loaded with explosives into American ships.

In 1941, German troops advanced into the Soviet Union and began a ___, or a military blockade, of the city of Leningrad that lasted nearly 900 days.

During WW II, the Nazis developed what they called "the final solution." Their "solution" was _____ wiping out an entire group of people.

About 6 million Jews, Slavs, Roma, communist, homosexuals, and people with handicaps were murdered in the ________.

About 30,000 Jewish men were sent to _____, large prison camps used to hold people for political reasons.

June 6, 1944, or ____ marked the turning point in World War II when the Allied forces began to win their fight against the Axis powers.

Germany signed an unconditional surrender on May 7, ending the war in Europe. The Allies declared May 8 _____ for "Victory in Europe."

On ______, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb n the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

In ______ American forces closed in on Japan and seized the island of Iwo Jima.

On ____, the first atomic bomb went off in a test near Alamogordo in the New Mexico desert.

Japanese signed a formal surrender on _____ aboard the battleship USS Missouri. WW II had finally ended.