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| A Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953 |
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| Of or relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state |
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| An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization |
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| German Nazi dictator during World War II |
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| a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader |
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| Banned sales of weapons to countries at war. |
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| British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany |
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| British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 |
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| diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power |
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| an international treaty between two or more states agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations |
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| An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory |
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| French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile |
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| The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45. |
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| The occasion of concerted violence by Nazis throughout Germany and Austria against Jews and their property on the night of November 9–10, 1938 |
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| The deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation |
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| A place where large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. |
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| Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II. |
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| the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 |
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| A declaration of eight common principles in international relations drawn up by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941, which provided the ideological basis for the United Nations organization |
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| A state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose, typically by treaty |
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| the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II |
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| United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program |
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| A person born in the US or Canada whose parents were immigrants from Japan |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| fixed price ceilings on all commodities, controlled rents in defense areas, and rationed scarce goods such as sugar, fuel, and automobile tires |
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| established as a government agency on January 16, 1942 by executive order of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity) |
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| United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States |
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| The day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy |
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| A United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well-known for his controversial outspokenness. |
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| elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan |
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| a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise |
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| The day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945 |
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| United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan |
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| United States admiral of the Pacific fleet during World War II who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy |
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| A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target |
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| The code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb. The project culminated in 1945 with the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, at White Sands in New Mexico |
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| United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb |
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| the target of the first atom bomb, which was dropped by the US on August 6, 1945, and resulted in the deaths of about one third of the city's population |
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| the target of the second atom bomb dropped by the U.S |
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| A meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 at Yalta, a Crimean port on the Black Sea. |
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| An international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation |
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| an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans as well as one year of unemployment compensation. |
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| the earliest and largest organization in the U.S. to defend the civil rights of Japanese American citizens |
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| a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II |
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