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

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

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

Americans who sincerely believed that war was wrong.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The Japanese city that the U.S. dropped a single plutonium bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on August 9, 1945.

The last obstacle the Americans faced before reaching the Japanese mainland; the assault on it began in April 1945 and took 82 days to complete.

The Nazis' solution to both the need for laborers and what they called "the Jewish problem". The solution included slave-labor camps and death camps.

Japanese attacks where pilots who deliberately tried to crash their planes into enemy ships.

A secret program set up by FDR and his advisers to make a uranium bomb before the Germans could do so.

The National Socialist German Workers' Party organized by Adolf Hitler.

The site where the Japanese aircraft carriers in the Pacific bombed U.S. naval and air bases in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

Demanded that Japan surrender unconditionally or face total destruction.

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"Victory in Europe Day"; May 8, 1945