World War II Vocabulary

The Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

• Holocaust
• Fascism
• Rationing
• Nazism

Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the USA during WWII who were sent to camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior

• Cornelia Fort
• Japanese Internment
• Allied Powers
• Axis Powers

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Americans were encouraged to grow their own vegetables to support the war effort

• Victory Gardens
• Pearl Harbor
• Totalitarianism
• USS Arizona

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A political system based on extreme national loyalty where the government controls the economy, culture, and all parts of people's lives. Usually the government is controlled by a dictator.

• Nazism
• Fascism
• Rationing
• Holocaust

A secret research and development project of the US to develop the atomic bomb

• The Manhattan Project
• Totalitarianism
• Pearl Harbor
• USS Arizona

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator

• totalitarianism
• holocaust
• fascism
• rationing

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military

• holocaust
• nazism
• fascism
• rationing

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II

• axis powers
• rationing
• Japanese internment
• allied powers

Prime minister of Japan during World War II. He gave his approval for the attack on Pearl Harbor and played a major role in Japan's military decisions until he resigned

• Cornelia Fort
• holocaust
• fascism
• Hideki Tojo

short for the National Socialist Party, this was Adolf Hitler's version of fascism. It included the racist idea of creating a German "master race"

• holocaust
• fascism
• rationing
• nazism

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