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| 4732179911 | Adolf HItler | dictator of Germany during world war 2 |  | 0 |
| 4732179912 | Benito Mussolini | dictator of Italy during world war 2 |  | 1 |
| 4732179913 | Winston Churchill | prime minister of Great Britain during world war 2 |  | 2 |
| 4732179914 | Joseph Stalin | dictator of the soviet union during world war 2 |  | 3 |
| 4732179915 | Munich Pact | agreement in which Britain and France tried to appease Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia, in order to avoid war |  | 4 |
| 4732179916 | Non-Aggression Pact | Agreement between Germany and the USSR not to fight each other. They also agreed to divide Poland |  | 5 |
| 4732179917 | Blitzkrieg | a new type of warfare, lightning war, used by the Germans |  | 6 |
| 4732179918 | Battle of Britain | The German air force launched an all-out air battle to destroy the British Royal Air Force |  | 7 |
| 4732179919 | Neutrality Acts | in 1939, warring nations could buy weapons if they paid cash and carried them on their own ships |  | 8 |
| 4732179920 | Lend-lease Act | The United States would send weapons to countries important to their defense if they promised to return or pay rent for them after the war |  | 9 |
| 4732179921 | Pearl Harbor | surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 that resulted in the United States' entry into world war 2 |  | 10 |
| 4732179922 | Japanese Interment | in 1942 the U.S. Government removed more than 100,000 people of Japanese birth and ancestry from their homes on the pacific coast to relocation centers |  | 11 |
| 4732179923 | Korematsu v. United States | the Supreme Court ruled that the relocation of Japanese Americans was constitutional because it was based on military urgency not race |  | 12 |
| 4732179924 | "Rosie the Riveter" | the symbol of the campaign to hire women to work in the factories during world war 2 |  | 13 |
| 4732179925 | WACS | The Women's Army Corps allowed women to serve in non-combat units. |  | 14 |
| 4732179926 | Casablanca | A 1943 meeting in Morocco at which Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to step up the bombing of Germany and to invade the island of Sicily |  | 15 |
| 4732179927 | Stalingrad | this 1942 battle, won by the soviets, was a major turning point of the war and put the Germans on the Defensive |  | 16 |
| 4732179928 | D-Day (Operation Overlord) | The Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 |  | 17 |
| 4732179929 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last attempt to keep Allied forces from entering Germany by racing west into Belgium to cut off supplies |  | 18 |
| 4732179930 | George Patton | Nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts" he was the foremost tank specialist of world war 2 |  | 19 |
| 4732179931 | V-E Day | "Victory in Europe" was proclaimed on may 8, 1945 following the German Surrender |  | 20 |
| 4732179932 | Holocaust | The Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews during world war 2 |  | 21 |
| 4732179933 | Midway | the 1942 battle that was the turning point of the war in the pacific. With the loss of four air craft carriers, the Japanese advanced across the pacific was stopped |  | 22 |
| 4732179934 | Island Hopping | strategy used in the pacific to acquire bases from which supplies and troops could be moved closer to Japan |  | 23 |
| 4732179935 | Chester Nimitz | The commander of the United States Navy in the pacific |  | 24 |
| 4732179936 | Douglas MacArthur | The commander of the American Forces defending the Philippines |  | 25 |
| 4732179937 | Iwo Jima | captured by U.S. Marines in February, 1945, this island, closer to Japan, be used for B-29s to refuel |  | 26 |
| 4732179938 | Okinawa | to prepare for invasion, this island, only 350 miles from Japan, was captured by the U.S. in April, 1945 |  | 27 |
| 4732179939 | Manhattan Project | Code-name for the American program, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, to build an atomic bomb |  | 28 |
| 4732179940 | V-J Day | "Victory over Japan" was proclaimed on August 15, 1945 following the Japanese surrender. the official surrender took place on board the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2, 1945 |  | 29 |
| 4732179941 | Nuremberg Trials | German Leaders suspected of committing war crimes were placed on trial in Nuremberg, Germany |  | 30 |
| 4732179942 | Potsdam | Meeting near Berlin in July, 1945 between Stalin, Truman, and the British Leaders to discuss the economic future of Germany. Japan had also been told at this time to surrender or be destroyed. |  | 31 |
