Haile Selassie

Selassie was the emperor that 

Selassie was the reagent of Ethiopia from 1916-1930 and emperor from 1930-1974.

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Emperor Hirohito

Hirohito died and passed on the throne to his son.

Hirohito was the 124th emperor of Japan ruling from 1925 until his death in 1989

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General Hideki Tojo

General Hideki Tojo was the prime minister and led Japan through the second World War.

Tojo was the general of the Imperial Japanese Army and the 27th prime minister of Japan during WWII

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler is often associated with evil things because of all the horrible things he did to the people who trusted him.

Hitler was he totalitarian dictator of Germany during WWII and was responsible for the Holocaust.

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Benito Mussolini

People loved Mussolini at the time but most people don't like him now.

Mussolini was the Dictator of Italy during WWII

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco ruled Spain during WWII

Franco was a military general who ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975

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Winston Churchill

Churchill was a close friend of the American President during WWII

Churchill was the Prime minister of Great Britain from 1940-1945 and again in 1951 to 1955.

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Joseph Stalin

A little known fact about Stalin is that he killed many more of his citizens than Hitler did.

Stalin was the dictator who ruled over Communist Russia during the second world war

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"Big Three"

The big three determined the alliance between the three major countries.

It was a meeting in Iran that had Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin

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Allies

The Allied Powers were the victorious team in WWII

The four biggest countries in WWII on the side of the allies were Great Britain, The United States, the Soviet Union and France.

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Axis

The Axis powers were the loosing side of WWII.

The Three major countries in WWII on the Axis Powers were Germany, Japan and Italy.

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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo-Axis

The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis lasted about as long as the war lasted.

The ten-year tripartite pact was the pact that sealed cooperation between Germany, Italy, and Japan.

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Atlantic Charter

The Atlantic Charter set the guidelines for how the Allied Powers would fight in the war.

The Atlantic Charter was the pivotal policy statement that defined the allied goals for WWII.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic got it's name from the city where it's constitutional assembly first took place.

A type of government that is usually what Germany's government is considered as it existed from 1919-1933.

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Appeasement

They used Appeasment  in WWII to cooperate with Germany.

Appeasement is a diplomatic policy of making concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict.

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Munich Conference

The Munich conference took place in Munich

The Munich Conference was a conference between Nazi Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain that settled that Germany would get a piece of Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland.

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Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was created after the Allies won WWI.

Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that brought WWI to an end but punished Germany harshly.

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Reparations

Hitler tried to make reparations after all of the things he did, but continued to do those things after.

Making of amends for something bad someone has done.

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League of Nations

The league of nations wasn't very successful.

A group founded after the Paris Peace conference that ended World War I

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

The Nazi-Soviet Pact kept both the Germans and Russians from turning on each other.

A pact between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia that assured their alliance.

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Lend Lease Act

the United States were able to send their allies supplies through the Lend Lease act.

The Lend Lease act was an act to secure the defense of the United States.

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Attack on Guernica

Many of the civilians survived the attack on Guernica.

Guernica was a small market town that was bombed by Germany

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Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor was a big moment in history that is still talked about frequently to this day.

Pearl Harbor was an attack on Hawaii made by Japan to try to take America out of the war

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Stalingrad

Two nations fought for Stalingrad.

Stalingrad was a fight between Germany and the Soviet Union to try to claim Stalingrad, the land between the two nations.

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D-Day

D-Day took place on June 6th.

D-Day was the day that the Allies attacked the Axis Powers in Operation Overlord

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Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge was a large part of WWII history.

The last major battle fought in Germany

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VE Day

The "peace sign" as it is called today used to be the victory sign in Europe.

Victory in Europe day

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Bataan Death March

The Bataan Death March was a march that the POW's walked in order for them to get home.

The march of more than 60,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war.

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Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway was planned after the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese.

A battle between the US and Japan 6 months after Pearl Harbor.

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Battle of Iwo Jima

The iconic photo of American Soldiers placing a flag on Japanese ground was taken at the Battle of Iwo Jima.

A battle in which the United States landed on and eventually captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima

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Battle of Okinawa

The Battle of Okinawa took place on Japanese land.

The Battle of Okinawa was a battle between Japan and the United States on the Japanese island Okinawa

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Hiroshima

The nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima were not tested so it could have failed and gone wrong.

One of the cities that the United States dropped nuclear bombs on near the end of the second world war, the other being Nagasaki.

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Nagasaki

The nuclear bombs that were dropped on Nagasaki were not tested so it could have failed and gone wrong.

One of the cities that the United States dropped bombs on near the end of the second World War, the other being Hiroshima.

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Kamikaze Pilots

Kamikaze pilots were pilots in WWII who would bomb a designated area and die along with all the citizens or soldiers.

Pilots in the Japanese air force that went on suicide bombings in allied states.

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Island Hopping

Island Hopping is now a term used for tourists who go on vacation to an island and move around the different surrounding islands.

To travel from one island to another frequently.

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Blitzkrieg

The Blitzkrieg was successful for only a short amount of time.

A blitzkrieg was a tactic that Germany used to capture and maintain control of much of Europe for nearly 2 years.

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Yalta Conference

The Yalta conference determined the outcome of some of the battles against the Axis powers.

The Yalta  Conference was a meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain.

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Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was a conference that held the Big Three leaders.

The meeting at Potsdam was the third conference between the leaders of the Big Three nations

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Cold War

The cold war was going on while WWII was still happening.

The cold war was a period of political tension between the members of the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc.

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NATO

NATO is used after wars to determine the consequences of everyone's actions during the war.

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an alliance between several North American and European nations.

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Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw Pact was the pact that ended the war.

The Warsaw Pact was a treaty between the Soviet Union and Several Soviet states in Europe.

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