Great Depression and World War 2

251693030	credit	an arrangement in which a purchaser borrows money from a bank or other lender and agrees to pay it back over time.
251693031	Black Tuesday	October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929
251693032	Great Depression	the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
251693033	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	The 32nd president of the United States. He was president from 1933 until his death in 1945 during both the Great Depression and WWII. He is the only president to have been elected 4 times, a feat no longer permissible due to the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.
251693034	New Deal	The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression
251693035	appeasement	practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war
251693036	Winston Churchill	A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.
251693037	Axis Powers	in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936.
251693038	Allied Powers	Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.
251693039	nonaggression pact	1939-Secret agreement between German leader Hitler and Soviet Leader Stalin not to attack one another and to divide Poland
251693040	blitzkreig	"Lighting Wars" type of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939
251693041	isolationism	a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
251693042	kamikazes	in World War II, Japanese pilots who loaded their aircraft with bombs and crashed them into enemy ships
251693043	Final Solution	the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
251693044	ghetto	a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
251693045	concentration camps	prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.
251693046	Holocaust	A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.
251693047	Buchenwald	German concentration camp, Weimer Germany, 56,000 victims, 13,000 transferred, built by prisoners
251693048	Auschwitz	Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and others were killed there.
251693049	D Day	June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.
251693050	V-E Day	Victory in Europe Day
251693051	V-J Day	Victory of Japan, September 2, 1945
251693052	Harry Truman	became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972)
251693053	Benito Mussolini	Known as "Il Duce" -- the Leader -- Mussolini was the Fascist dictator of Italy during World War II.
251693054	Hideki Tojo	Prime minister of Japan during World War II
251693055	Joseph Stalin	Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
251693056	Adolph Hitler	Facist German Nazi leader 1933-1945. Strong centralized state. Tried to take over world and responsible for Holocaust
251693057	Manhattan Project	code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II