Key Terms and Important People
Directions: Use the glossary, or the internet, to define each of the following key terms and to
explain the significant of each important person.
Part 1
Part 2
Neutrality Acts
appeasement
nonaggression pact
blitzkrieg
Holocaust
genocide
Concentration camp
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of the Bulge
Axis Powers
Lend-Lease Act
Allies
Atlantic Charter
Manhattan Project
Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corp
(WAAC)
Rationing
Selective Service System (p. 563)
D-Day
V-E Day
Tuskegee Airmen (p. 573)
Four Freedoms Speech
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Fascism
Navajo Code Talkers
“Zoot-suit” riots
Kamikaze
internment
Japanese American Citizens League
Congress of Racial Equality
Nuremberg Trials
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Atomic bomb
Fred Koretmasu v USA
GI Bill of Rights
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
General Douglas MacArthur
General Dwight D Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
FDR
Harry S Truman
Charles de Gaulle
J Robert Oppenheimer
Nazism