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| What were the causes of WW2? |
Great Depression, Fascism, Germany hurt economically, rise of Japanese militarism and imperialism |
| Who became dictator of Germany? |
Hitler |
| What is appeasement? |
policy of giving into demand to keep the peace |
| What was the official start of WW2? |
Invasion of Poland (1939) by Germany |
| What did Hitler capture next? |
France |
| Who won the Battle of Britain? |
Great Britain |
| Why did the Germans lose to the Russians? |
The tried to capture Russia in winter. |
| Who attack the Americans at Pearl Harbor in 1941? |
Japan |
| Whom did the US declare war on? |
Japan, Germany, and Italy |
| What strategy did the US use on the Japanese in the Pacific? |
Island hopping |
| How did the Americans defeat the Japanese in 1945? |
dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and the Japanese finally surrendered |
| What is the D-Day Invasion? |
On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded France at Omaha Beach, France. The Americans, British, Canada, and US liberated France. |
| When did the war in Europe finally end? |
May 1945 invaded Berlin, Germany, 1945,and captured it. Hitler committed suicide. USSR overruns Eastern Europe. |
| What was the Holocaust? |
It was the killing of Jews and other "undesirable" persons by the Germans starting in the later 1930's until 1945. It was started by Hitler so he could create a master race. |
| What were the results of World War2? |
55 million killed, Europe and Asia in ruins; the powers of Western Europe devastated; colonial peoples freed; creation of the United Nations; US and USSR emerged as superpowers |
IVC Lesson 11
