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Chap. 19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the dictator of Germany? | Adolf Hitler |
| Who was the dictator of Italy? | Benito Mussolini |
| Who was the dictator of Japan? | Emperor Hirohito |
| What situations in Germany & Japan led to the rise of dictatorships there? | The terrible economic situation and lowered moral led to the rise of Nazis. As for Japan, its just the will of the emperor. |
| Why did President Roosevelt not veto the Neutrality Acts? | The acts passed between 1935 contained provisions limiting arms sales to nations that were not at war. |
| What | Anschluss |
| What | Appeasement |
| What's lightning strike? | Blitzkrieg |
| What's a line of busters? | Maginot Line |
| Who was the prime minster of Great Britain | Winston Churchill |
| What all-out German air attack against the British Royal Air Force (RAF]? | Battle of Britain |
| Why did Britain & France agree? | 1. Britain and France wanted to avoid war. 2. The sudeten Germans appeared to want to join with Germany. |
| Why did the evacuation happen at Dunkrik? | large parts of the French 1st army, the entire BEF and the remnants of the Belgian army had been out maneuvered by the Germans who sent motorised and armoured formations through the Ardene forest surprising the light French defenders who were not equipped |
| What helped Britain prevent a German invasion? | Radar and the breaking of the enigma code. |
| What's the mass killing of Jews? | Holocaust |
| What's Hebrew for Holocaust? | Shoah |
| What are German Laws? | Nuremberg Laws |
| What's a meeting? | Wannsee Conference |
| What dentention centers? | Concentration Camps |
| What places attached to concentration camps? | Extermination Camps |
| Why was the United States reluctant to accept Jewish immigrants? | The US was reluctant to allow in Jewish refugees during the 1940s fearing that they may have been blackmailed to become spies for the Germans. This combined with antisemitism by government officials made immigrations for Jews difficult. |
| What was the purpose of the Wannsee Conference? | to inform all departments what the policy was regarding that fate (the fate had already been decided, Wannsee Conference was not a conference of people who could decide these things, but of middle managers) Rate This Answer. |
| What's an isolationist group | America First Committee |
| What law would allow the United Sates to lend or lease arms? | Lend-Lease Act |
| What's the Western Half of the Atlantic? | Hemispeheric Defense Zone |
| What agreement betweent the United States & Britain? | Atlantic Charter |
| What are materials important for fighting a war? | Strategic Materials |
| What did the revised Neutrality Act provide? | There were efforts to amend the law to weaken or slow down the measure. |
| Why did President Roosevelt decide to run for a third term as president? | 1. There was no 2 term restrictions at that time 2. He was very popular among other nations as a wartime president. |
| What was the Lend-Lease Act? | The Lend-Lease Act was passed on March 11, 1941. |
| What led Congress to declare war on Japan? | Just after 9:30 a.m. on December 8, 1941, on a national radio broadcast, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) goes before a joint session of the U.S. Congress and began a speech. |
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