World War II Vocabulary

a statement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledging that both the United States and Great Britain would work for a world free of aggression.

• Fascism

• Atlantic Charter

• Executive Order 9066

• Lend-Lease Act

a law allowing nations fighting against the Axis powers, such as Great Britain, to borrow or lease military equipment from the United States

• Executive Order 9066

• Appeasement

• Atlantic Charter

• Lend-Lease Act

authorized the creation of relocation camps in which many Japanese-Americans were placed during World War II

• Executive Order 9066

• Manhattan Project

• Atlantic Charter

• Lend-Lease Act

America's program which built the world's first atomic bomb in 1945

• Atlantic Charter

• Propaganda

• Manhattan Project

• Navajo Code Talkers

trials at which Nazi leaders were judged for war crimes, including crimes against humanity

• Nuremberg Trials

• Yalta Conference

• Executive Order 9066

• Navajo Code Talkers

a meeting at Yalta where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agreed on post-war policy, such as the treatment of Germany, its occupied nations, and the creation of the United Nations

• Propaganda

• Atlantic Charter

• Nuremberg Trials

• Yalta Conference

helped maintain military security in the Pacific by transmitting orders in their native language

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Victory gardens

• Executive Order 9066

• Atlantic Charter

the destruction or extermination of an entire group of people. The word was first applied to the attempted extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany

• Appeasement

• Embargo

• Genocide

• Neutrality

vegetables, fruit, and herbs grown by individuals to reduce demand on the public food supply in order to support the war effort

• Victory Gardens

• Rationing

• Propaganda

• Cash-and-Carry Plan

the day when the war ended in Europe (May 8, 1945). It is also known as Victory in Europe Day

• V-E Day

• V-J Day

• V-F Day

• V-G Day