47 World War II – The Allied Powers (or just “The Allies”)
1. Photo of Leader Drawing of Leader Country ______Flag
1. Winston Churchill
Great Britain
2. Josef Stalin
Soviet Union
3.Franklin D. Roosevelt United States
Harry S Truman
Important Vocabulary
Appeasement - ______
Isolationism - ______48 World War II – The Axis Powers Name and Country Photo of Leader Flag Drawing of Leader
4. Adolf Hitler
Germany
Italy
6. Hideki Tojo.
Japan
7. Fascism - ______8. Anti-Semitism - ______9. Aryan Supremacy - ______10. Blitzkrieg - ______49 World War II Timeline
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World War II – On the Home Front
World War II affected every American. Millions of soldiers went off to war to fight the Axis Powers, but at home, everyone still had to make sacrifices and do their part to win the war.
1. American involvement in World War II brought an end to ______.
2. Factories and workers were needed to produce ______.
3. Americans at home supported the war by
______and ______
resources.
4. Thousands of American ______took jobs in defense plants during the war.
5. ______became the symbol of women working in America’s factories.
6. ______-______hoped for a "Double V." Through their work, they would help win the war and gain civil rights.
7. While many ______
served in the armed forces, others were treated with
distrust and prejudice.
8. Many Japanese-Americans were forced into ______camps.
53 Dr. Seuss Goes to War
1. 4.
2. 5.
3. 6. Anti-Semitism in America Appeasement Battle of Stalingrad Conserving and Rationing Lend-Lease Act Racism in American Industry 54 What a Horrible War (Sung to the tune of What a Wonderful World)
1. World War II started when Hitler invaded ______, He conquered most of Europe, Germany was rollin’, And I think to myself, what a horrible war…
2. Hitler’s first defeat came at the Battle of ______, Hitler bombed the Brits to bits, but their planes gave him a lickin’, And I think to myself, what a horrible war…
The US stayed away, wanting no part of Europe’s wars, 3. We’d lend or ______them arms, but send no army to their shores, But on December 7, 1941, Japan bombed ______, And isolationism was done.
The Russians were next, Hitler said he was their friend, He invaded anyway, because he thought that he could win, And I think to myself, what a horrible war.
But the winter was too cold, and the Russians held their ground, 4. At the Battle of ______, they turned Germany around. And I think to myself, what a horrible war.
5. On ______the Allies landed on the shores of Normandy, They started marching eastward, to the heart of Germany,
And the Battle of ______, in the war against Japan, 6. Turned the tide in the Pacific, and we headed toward their land.
And with Hitler finally dead, the war in Europe was done, But Japan wouldn’t quit, so we dropped the atom bomb, And I think to myself, what a horrible war.
Yes, I think to myself…. What a horrible war.