Study Guide (WWI /
WWII)
Allied Powers – WWI alliance (Britain, France, Italy,
Belgium, Russia, United States)
Communism – political system which all property is owned by
the government
World War II – the war began when Great Britain and France
declared war against the Axis
Iron Curtain – the line dividing Europe into communist and
non-communist countries
Axis – alliance (Japan, Italy, Germany)
Cold War – war between the US and the Soviet Union
Holocaust – Hitler’s attempt to destroy the Jewish people
New Deal – helped the United States recover from the
depression
Arms Race – race between the US and the Soviet Union to
build the most powerful weapons
Treaty of Versailles – ended WWI
Concentration Camps – place where Germans enslaved and
murdered those they considered enemies
League of Nations – organization designed to prevent future
wars
League of Women Voters – helped inform men and women about
political issues
19th Amendment – gave women the right to vote
Relocation camp – place where Japanese Americans were sent
during WWII
Central Powers – alliance the United States declared war on
in WWI
Roaring Twenties – a decade of wealth and prosperity
Great Depression – period of failed business and job loss
United Nations – formed at the end of WWII to keep world
peace
2 million Americans served in WWI
10 million soldiers died in battle in WWI
Discrimination – unfair difference in the treatment of
people
Suffrage – right to vote
Adolf Hitler – leader of the Nazi party
Pearl Harbor – Japan struck an American base in Hawaii that
brought the United States into WWII
Hiroshima and Nagasaki – atomic bomb locations
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