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Winston Churchill
The English Prime MInister during world war two -
Franklin Delano Rosevelt (FDR)
The longest running US. President who lead the country through times of crisis -
Benito Mussolini
The leader of The National Facist Party in italty ex-policeman -
Harry S Truman
The 33rd president served at the end of the war after FDR -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler the supreme chancelor of Facist Germany -
U.S. declares Neutrality
a very importent deal this is the US. offically declaring themsevles seperate from foreign affairs -
Vernon Baker
Medal of Honor recepient -
Audie Murphy
most decorated American Soldier in WWII -
Rape of Nanking
the massacure of thousands chinese people by japanese soldiers -
Pearl Harbor
the first attack on american soil (we all know this) -
Japanese-American Interment Camps
this is after the attack on pearl harbor when the united states segregated japanese americans in "interment camps" aka concentration camps -
Victory Gardens
the way the average everyday civilian contributed to the war effort by becoming self suffecient allowing food to go to troops -
Dictator
an almighty ruler of a country/people
ex. Adolf Hitler,Musolinii -
Facism
the ideaology that one person should hold all the power and his/her word was law -
Lend Lease Act
the US gave some supplies to allies basically breaking the act of neutrality -
office of war information (OWI)
the united states own way of distrubuting propaganda both over-seas and at home -
Propaganda
spreading ideas in an attempt to change how people think -
Womens roles in WWII
they had a role that they as women in the 1940s wouldn't have they actually had a purpose other then housework they worked in shops factories and industrial labor -
War Bonds and Rationing
these were acts done by the government in an effort to raise money and food and other supplies for the military -
fire bonbing of dresen
the bombing of dresden