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Winston Churchill
He the prime minister and rallied the British during the WW2. He led his country to victory. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR was in the middle of his second term as governor of New York when he was elected the nations 32nd presiident in 1932. He helped the country get out of the great depression by making many acts. -
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Benito Mussolini
He was an Italian dictator who rose to power in the beginning of WW1. He became Prime MInister in 1922. -
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Harry S. Truman
He became president after FDR's sudden death. He was president while WW2 ended. Also he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. -
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Adolf Hitler
He was a dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934-1945. He initiated World War 2 and oversaw fascist policies. -
Victory Gardens
They were food gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the US, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Germany during bioth World Wars -
Fascism
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Dictator
A ruler with toatl power over a country typically one who has obtained power by force. There was many dictators during WW2 and there is some still today -
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Vernon Baker
He was a highly decorated soldier in WW2. His unit was the first black unit to go into combat during WW2 -
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Audie Murphy
He is the most decorated US soldier of WW2. WHen he returned back home he became an actor starring in To Hell and Back (telling his story) -
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Nazism
Is a set political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany. They gained power in 1933 and lasted until 1945 when the war ended. -
The Rape of Nanking
Hundredds of thousands were murdered and 80,000 were raped by soilders in the Imperial Japanese Army -
propaganda
information, espaically of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view -
Womens roles in ww2
During WW2 some women actually fought in the war. though most had to take over the mens work -
US declares neutraily
The US didnt want to be part of the war for another 2 years after the aatack on Pearl Harbor. Presdient Roosevelt went public and declared that America be neutral -
Lend Lease Act
It set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation on demand -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked The American naval base at Pearl Harbor located near Honolulu, Hawaii -
Japanese-American Interment camps
The united states imprisoned over 127,000 US citizens just because they came from Japanese ancestry -
office of War information
It was created in WW2 to consoildate existing goverment information services and deliver propaganda both home and abored -
Firebombing of Dresden
The Bombing of Dresden was an attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War in the European Theatre. -
U.S. War Bonds
The last time war bonds were used was WW2. They were seen as a way to remove money from circulation was well as reduce inflation
