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WW2 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what left many countries like Italy, Germany, and Japan feeling betrayed | Treaty of Versailles |
| what did many European countries turn to due to Europe's economic depression and the peoples belief that their democratic governments were too weak | dictators |
| Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union | Josef Stalin |
| What is a state where a dictator has control over all aspects over life | totalitarian state |
| who was the dictator of Italy | Benito Mussolini |
| What type of state is a system based on militarism extreme nationalism and blind loyalty to his leader | Fascist |
| Who was the dictator of Germany | Adolf Hitler |
| What was the nazi party short for | National Socialist German Workers Party |
| What group did Hitler blame Germany's loss in WW1 on | Jews |
| What countries democratic government was being pressured by its military leaders to invade nearby countries for needed space and raw materials | Japan |
| What was Britain and meeting with hitler in Munich and meeting his demands to stay out of war an example of | appeasement |
| what type of policy did Americans return to after WW1 by trying to avoid getting involved in aggression across the world | isolationism |
| What did the US Congress pass to keep us out of war by forbidding the president from working with other countries that are at war | Neutrality Act |
| What did Hitler and Stalin sign agreeing to not attack each other | nonaggression pact |
| what event caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany | hitler invading Poland |
| Which on of the Allied Powers was easily conquered by hitler in only 6 weeks | France |
| what event forced Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to become unwilling allies | the invasion of the soviet union |
| what supported the British by allowing them to obtain American goods without having to pay for them directly | lend lease act |
| what did Roosevelt and Churchill sign in order to show their alliance to the world | Atlantic Charter |
| What caused the United States to declare war on Japan | Pearl Harbor |
| What alliance was made of Italy Germany and Japan | Axis powers |
| what alliance was made up of Britain France Soviet Union America and China | Allied Powers |
| what continent did US troops see their first ground action | North Africa Europe |
| who was the US general in charge of the US troops in the Philippines | Douglas Mac Arthur |
| what horrible event followed the defeat of US and Filipino troops in the Philippines | Bataan Death March |
| what two battles in the Pacific allowed the US to stop Japan from invading surrounding island countries | Coral Sea and midway |
| what Japanese word was used to describe an American born Japanese American | Nisei |
| What Japanese internment camp was Kenji and his family and his family imprisoned in the song Kemji | Manzanar |
| What event knocked Mussolini out of power | Britain/US invading Italy |
| What event took place on June 6th 1944 | d Day |
| what was the code name for the invasion of Europe | Operation overlord |
| what was the code name given the sea born invasion of the Beaches in normandy | Operation Neptune |
| What five Norman beaches were targeted and invaded during the invasion of Normandy | sword utah gold omaha juno |
| during what battle did the German army regroup for one final offensive against the Allies | Battle of the bulge |
| What event led to suicide of Adolf hitler and the surrender of Germany | V-E Day |
| What day/event took place on May 8th 1945 and made the end of the war in Europe official | V-E Day |
| what allied strategy involved invading Japanese controlled islands in order to build a path invade japan | island hopping |
| who willing committed suicide by crashing their planes into US ships | Japanese Kamikaze pilots |
| What events led to the surrender of Japan | the atomic bombs blowing up hiroshima and Nagaski |
| what event/day took place on August 14th 1945 and made the end of WW2 official | V-J Day |
| What was Hitler's plan to exterminate all European Jews called | the final solution |
| how many Jews were estimated to have been killed in the Holocaust | 6 million |
| what are wartime acts of cruelty and brutality that are judged to be beyond the accepted rules of war and human behavior | death |
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