LEADER OF NAZI PARTY - ADOLF HITLER, ALLIED POWERS - Great Britain, Soviet Union and the United States, appeasement - attempting to avoid conflict by making concessions and agreeing to part of the demands, Atlantic Charter - secret government signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchhill outlining the two nations war aims for self determination, Prime Minister Winston Churchill - Britain's prime minister. Britain has a queen but she doesn't make laws, the people votes for representative and they vote for a leader, the Prime Minister, BATTLE OF MIDWAY - US naval vicotry over japanese fleet in June 1942 in which Japan lost four of their aircraft carriers. this was a BIG TURNING POINT in WWII, BLITZKRIEG - This is German word for "lightening", cash and carry - a policy adopted by the United States in 1939 to preserve neutrality while aiding the Allies, concentration camps - places where political prisoners are confined, D DAY - June 6, 1944 this is when ALLIES land on the beaches in Normandy France go on the offensive to drive Hitler's forces back into Germany, The reason the US declared war on Japan - attack on PEARL HARBOR, DICTATOR - a leader with absolute power, executive order of 9066 - signed by PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT that authorized the exclusion of more than 112,000 Japanese internment camps, ghetto - restricted areas of European cities that kept Jews separated from others, GI BILL of RIGHTS - the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, HARRY S TRUMAN - he became president when FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT died in office. He made the decision to drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan to end the war, HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI - the two cities in JAPAN that atomic bombs were dropped on., ISLAND HOPPING - an allied tactic where only certain islands were targeted for attack in the Pacific-they each have strategic significance,

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