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SS WW2 BMS 6-2
BMS 6-2 social studies test for Thursday 3-13-13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hitler invades Poland | September 1 1939 |
| Pearl Harbor bombed | Dec 7 1941 |
| Battle of midway | June 1942 |
| D-Day | June 6 1944 |
| V-E (victory in Europe day) | May 8 1945 |
| Japan surrenders | Sept 2 1945 |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian dictator began fascism |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Nazi Germany |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the U.S.S.R |
| Winston Churchill | Prime minister of Great Britain |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanese army general |
| Dwight D Eisenhower | Supreme commander of allied forces in Europe |
| Erwin Rommel | Commander of Bergman\forces in Africa |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander of allied forces in pacific |
| James Doolittle | Led bombing raids on Tokyo |
| Rosie the Riveter | A symbol for women factory workers in WW2 |
| Luftwaffe | The German Air Force |
| Axis Powers | Germany Italy Japan |
| The Big Three (allied leaders) | Roosevelt Stalin Churchill |
| The Final Solution | Hitlers plan for murdering Jews |
| Appeasement | Giving in to a country in order to keep their peace |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning war used by Germans fast and surprising |
| Lend-Lease Act | Allows the US to ship supplies to countries |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Cities in Japan that were bombed with atomic bombs |
| Navajo Indians | Codes to help the allied |
| Manhattan Project | Top secret program to build an atomic bomb |
| Fascism | Mussolini extreme patriotism and nationalism |
| Holocaust | Murder of 6 million Jews by Nazi's |
| The details of D-Day (4) | Called operation overload Largest seaborne invasion in history Landed on Normandy Allied troops liberated the French capital |
| The reasons for the Yalta conference (2) | Held at a resort in the Soviet Union to make plans for Europe after the war |
| What countries were not under German control when US entered war | All except Soviet Union and Great Britain |
| The turning point in the war in the pacific | The battle of Midway |
| The purpose of island hopping | To take over weakly defended (Japanese) islands to make new bases |
| Details of the Japanese internment (3) | Had to leave their homes\jobs Held in camps Were thought to be security threats |
| The reasons for invading North Africa first (2) | Defeat the axis in North Africa first More successful in south Europe |
| The reason for using the atomic bombs against Japan | Allies didn't want to invade Japan and lose more soldiers |
| The event that began WW2 in Europe | Hitler-invasion of Poland |
| The ideals of the Nuremberg Trials | People are responsible for their actions even in wartime |
| The purpose of the Marshall Plan | To rebuild the economics of Europe |
| How life in the US was affected by the war | GI Bill-increased education African Americans-more opportunities Goods were rationed |
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