WWII Vocab

Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

• Neville Chamberlain

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

Border defense system separating France and Germany.

• Maginot Line

• Blitzkrieg

• Axis System

• Blitz

Leader of Britain during WWII

• Neville Chamberlain

• Winston Churchill

• Joseph Stalin

• Franklin Roosevelt

Leader of the US during WWII

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

• Neville Chamberlain

• Franklin Roosevelt

The policy of giving in to an aggressor with the hopes they will make no more demands.

• Total War

• Appeasement

• Rationing

• Compromise

A war that uses all parts of society.

• Total War

• Rationing

• Blitz

• Blitzkrieg

The conservation of food and other resources for the war.

• Total War

• Rationing

• Saving

• Recycling

War tactic used by Germany- fast moving tanks that overwhelm the enemy.

• Blitz

• Blitzkrieg

• Total War

• Kamikaze

The constant German bombing of London

• Blitz

• Blitzkrieg

• Total War

• Kamikaze

June 6, 1944- The Allied Invasion of Germany. Turning point on the western front.

• Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Stalingrad

• D-Day

• Hiroshima