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Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini created the Fascist Party in Italy in 1919, eventually making himself dictator prior to World War II. He was killed in 1945. -
Appeasement
Appeasement as a foreign policy strategy is most closely associated with British policies in the interwar years (1919–1939). -
Joseph Stalin
Was the dictator of the union of soviet socialist republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. -
Adolf Hitler
He rose to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party, taking control of the German government in 1933. His establishment of concentration camps to inter Jews and other groups he believed to be a threat to Aryan supremacy resulted in the death of more than 6 million people in the Holocaust. -
Anti Semitic
Prejudice against jewish background or religion. -
Nuremberg Laws
Where the Nazis had set up types of gatherings where they basically showed in all how racist they were. -
Kristallnacht
Where tons of germans attacked jewish stores broken glass and stole tons of materials and such, just to spite the jews. -
Neutrality Act of 1939
Based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies. -
Lend Lease Act
Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to any country they had wanted. -
Kamikaze
Basically where a japenese fighter plane commits suicide for ones country. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. -
Harry S. Truman
Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became America's 33rd President. -
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms (1953-1961) to ease the tensions of the Cold War.
