WWII Vocab

Great Britain, France, USA, Canada, USSR

• Allied Powers

• Central Powers

• Axis Powers

• Neutral Nations

policies, views, or actions that harm or discriminate against the Jewish people

• appeasement

• anti-Semitism

• disarmament

• mobilization

332nd Fighter Group of African American pilots famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes

• Axis Powers

• Allied Powers

• Harlem Hellfighters

• Tuskegee Airmen

policy where Great Britain and France agreed to Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in agreement for not taking any additional Czech territory

• mobilization

• appeasement

• disarmament

• rationing

taking items that are in short supply and distributing them according to a system

• mobilization

• recession

• rationing

• New Deal

Japan, Germany, Italy

• Allied Powers

• Central Powers

• Axis Powers

• Neutral Nations

the gathering of resources and preparation for war

• mobilization

• rationing

• disarmament

• alliance

political leader who rules a country with absolute power, usually by force

• President

• Prime Minister

• Commander

• Dictator

code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb

• Oppenheimer Project

• Einstein Project

• Manhattan Project

• New Mexico Project

giving up military weapons

• mobilization

• disarmament

• rationing

• imperialism