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| giving in to the demands of the aggressor in order to keep peace |
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| forbid the sale of arms to any nation at war, outlawed loans to warring nations, prohibited Americans from traveling on ships of warring powers |
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| Germany, Italy and Japan, three nations agreed to fight Soviet communism |
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| Spain's Nationalist, conservative general who led a revolt spurring a bloody civil war |
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| the plan of a union of Austria and Germany by Hitler |
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| a region of western Czechoslovakia, with a population of 3 million German's that Hitler wanted annexed to Germany. |
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| agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 in which the two nations promised not to fight each other and to divde up land in Eastern Europe |
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| scientific advances applied to practical purposes |
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| Hitler's "lightening war" that utilized improved tank and air power technology to strike a devastating blow against the enemy |
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| English collaboration of all naval vessels, to rescue stranded troops that raised British morale. |
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| city in central France where a puppet state governed unoccupied France and the French colonies |
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| Nazi commander know as the "Desert Fox", who chalked up a string of success in 1941 and 1942 |
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| deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
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| the systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during WWII |
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| Allowed the president of the US (FDR) to sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the US |
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| detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state |
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| popular name for women who worked in war industries during WWII |
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| ships that accommodate the take off and landings of airplanes, and transport aircraft |
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| American General, who in command of joint British and American forces, trapped Rommel's army, which surrendered in May 1943 |
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| now Volgograd, a city in southwestern Russia that was the site of a fierce battle during WWII |
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| code name for the day that Allied forces invaded France during WWII, June 6, 1944 |
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| Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945, the day the allies won WWII in Europe |
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| during WWII, the forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military |
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| US General who led the offensive in the Pacific |
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| during WWII, Allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while by-passing others |
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| something worked toward; a goal |
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| Japanese pilot who under took a suicide mission |
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| code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WWII |
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| Mid-sized Japanese city where the first atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped in August, 1945 |
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| city in souther Germany where Hitler staged Nazi rallies in the 19302, and where Nazi war crimes trials were held after WWII |
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| (UN) international organization established after WWII with the goal of maintaining peace and cooperation is the international community |
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| state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United States on one side and the Soviet Union on the other that rarely led to direct armed conflict |
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| US policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism |
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| Film in 1949 that dramatized the threat of communism in the US and formed a vital part of the propaganda war |
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| massive aid package offered by the United States to Europe to help countries rebuild after WWII |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| (NATO)US, Canada, and nine other counties formed a new military alliance in 1949, pledging to help one another if any were attacked |
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| 1955, Soviet Union responded to NATO by forming it's own military alliance, including Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe |
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| spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
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| Coastal, southern Japanese city on the island of Kyushu, where the second atomic bomb "Fat Man" was dropped in August, 1945 |
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| meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WWII |
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