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| a war fought between 1939 and 1945. |
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| a person who has complete control over a country’s government |
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| government led by a powerful dictator and controlled by the military. |
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| dictator of Germany during WWII |
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| political party led by Adolf Hitler that terrorized Europe for years. |
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| the murder of about 6 million Jews and 4 million other Europeans during WWII. |
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| Hawaiian city that was bombed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. This is the reason why the U.S. got involved in WWII. |
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| U.S. President during WWII; he died before the war was over. |
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| Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII. |
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| dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII. |
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| dictator of Italy during WWII. |
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| U.S. President that dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. He took office after the death of FDR. |
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| military alliance between the U.S.A., Canada, and Western Europe. This was an agreement between those countries that if any of those countries were attacked everyone involved would go to war. |
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| when the U.S.A. gave Europe financial, industrial, and agricultural aid. This helped them to rebuild after the war. |
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| formed from the Russian Empire in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution. It was comprised of 15 republics. |
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| invisible wall of tension between the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union. This term was coined by Winston Churchill. |
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| tensions that developed after WWII between the Soviet Union and the Western world (U.S. & Western Europe). |
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| alliance of the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern European Countries. |
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| 103 mile long wall that divided East (communist) and West Germany (democratic). |
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| to unify after being divided. Germany was reunified when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. |
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| dictator of the Soviet Union when it collapsed in 1991. |
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| It punished Germany,leading to a depression there. therefor, Hitler gained power by saying i can help you. i can resolve all your pobnlems and end communism. but he came from a communist country and tricked them into thinking he was the good guy in the equation. |
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| How did the Treaty of Versailles and the world-wide depression lead to the start of World War II? |
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| Germany invaded poland in 1939. |
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| Why did the USA get involved in WWII? |
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| It was a time of horrible deaths. Hitler killed over 3 million people in the so called "work camps" they were more like death camps. |
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| Why is the Holocaust a significant event in World War II? |
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| They kept spending all their money on weapons and improvements that eventually they just ran out and everything fell apart. |
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| What events led to the collapse of the Soviet Union? |
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