WWII vocab

the Nazis made plans to round up Jews from the vast areas of Nazi-controlled Europe and take them to detention centers

President Roosevelt tried to improve the system by creating

To help the B-29s hit their targets, he ordered them to drop bombs filled with a kind of a jellied gasoline

means “divine wind” in Japanese. It refers to the great storm that destroyed the Mongol fleet during its invasion japan

was a kind of aggressive nationalism

the germans used a new type of warfare and or lighting war

limiting the availability of, many products to make sure enough were available for military use

Eisenhower’s planning staff referred to the day any operation began by the letter D. The date for the invasion

The American program to build an atomic bomb was code-named and was headed by General Leslie R. Groves

As the German troops raced west, their lines bulged outward, and the attack

government encouraged victory gardens by praising them in film reels, pamphlets, and official statements

the catastrophe that ravaged Europe’s Jews, the Nazis killed nearly 6 million Jews

Most others, including the elderly, the infirm, and young children, would be sent to and attached to many of the concent

the student meant that African Americans were often denied their right to vote

President Roosevelt came up with a way to remove the cash requirement of the Neutrality Act the United States

a character from a popular song by the Four Vagabonds

In 1944, at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, D.C., delegates from 39 countries met to discuss new organization

Japan surrendered. On the other side of the world, Americans celebrated. For American soldiers the news

Eisenhower insisted on unconditional surrender. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered unconditionally

mid-August, the Luftwaffe launched an all-out air battle to destroy the British Royal Air Force

a plan for the first peacetime draft in American history

britain and france agreed to Hilter’s demands, a policy