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- Axis
- Germany , Italy and their allies during WWII
- RAF
- british airforce(Royal Airforce)
- Albert Einstein
- German Jew scientist who remained in US after Hitler took control and convinced Roosevelt to develop nuclear weapons
- blitzkrieg
- lightning war which stressed speed and surprise in the use of tanks, troops and planes
- Pearl Harbor
- A naval base in Hawaii that was hit in a surprise air attack on December 7, 1941...2400 Americans killed
- appeasement
- the granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace
- Luftwaffe
- German Airforce
- Hideki Tojo
- leader of Japan
- Lend Lease Act
- law that allowed the US to ship arms and supplies without immediate payment to nations fighting Axis powers
- Nazi Party
- the National Socialist German Workers' Party came to power under Adolf Hitler in the 1930's
- Winston Churchill
- wrote "Britain and France had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too".
- Joseph Stalin
- Communinist leader of the Soviet Union(Russia) who took over after Lenin
- facism
- a political philosphy that advocates a strong, contralized, nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator and was often linked to racism
- Adolph Hitler
- leader of the fascist National Socialist German Workers' Party (known as Nazis) in Germany called Der Fuhrer...the leader
- Benito Mussolini
- leader of Italy after WWI who started facism(called Il Duce..the leader)
- Franklin Roosevelt
- president who declared war on Japan, ...called December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy"
- Pablo Picasso
- a Spainish artist who painted about the horrors when Germans invaded Spain