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WWII Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What left many countries like Italy, Germany, and Japan feeling betrayed? | The 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 of life? | totalitarian |
| Who was the dictator of Italy? | Benito Mussolini |
| What type of state is a system based on militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to its leader? | Fascist state |
| Who was the dictator of Germany? | Adolf Hitler |
| What was the NAZI party short for? | National Socialist German Workers Party |
| What group of people did Hitler blame for Germany's loss in WWI on? | Jews |
| What countries democratic government was being pressured by its military leaders to invade nearby countries for needed space and raw materials? | Japan |
| Britain and France meeting with Hitler in Munich and meeting his demands to stay out of the war was an example of what? | appeasement |
| What type of policy did America return to after WWI, 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 countries at war? | Neutrality Act |
| What did Hitler and Stalin sign, agreeing not to attack each other? | non-aggression pact |
| What event caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany? | Germany invading Poland |
| Which of the Allied Powers was conquered by Hitler in only 6 weeks? | France |
| What event forced Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to become unwilling allies? | Germany invading the Soviet Union |
| What supported the British by allowing them to obtain American war 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 event causes the US to declare war on Japan? | The attack on Pearl Harbor |
| What Alliance was made up of Italy, Germany, and Japan? | Axis Powers |
| What alliance was made up of Britain, France, US, China, and the Soviet Union? | Allied Powers |
| On what continent did US troops see their first ground action? | Africa |
| Who was the US General who was in charge of US troops in the Philippines? | Douglas McArthur |
| What horrible event followed the defeat of US and Filipino troops after their defeat in the Philippines? | The Bataan Death March |
| What two battles in the Pacific allowed the US to stop Japan from invading surrounding island countries? | Battle of Coral Sea and Midway |
| What was the name of the Japanese internment camp that Kenji and his family were imprisoned in? | Manzanar |
| What Japanese word was used to describe an American-born Japanese American? | Nisei |
| What event knocked Mussolini out of power? | The Invasion of 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 to the sea born invasion of the beaches of Normandy? | Operation Neptune |
| What 5 Norman beaches were targeted and invaded during the invasion of Normandy? | Sword, Gold, Omaha, Juno, Utah |
| During what battle did the German army regroup for one final offensive attack against the Allies? | The Battle of the Bulge |
| What event led to the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the surrender of Germany? | The invasion of Germany by Allied troops |
| What 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 to invade Japan? | island hopping |
| Who willingly committed suicide by crashing their planes into US targets? | Japaneses kamikaze pilots |
| What event led to the surrender of Japan? | The atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| What event took place on August 14th, 1945 and made the end of WWII official? | Japanese surrender, V-J Day |
| What was Hitler's plan to exterminate all European Jews called? | the 'final solution' |
| How many Jews were 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? | war crimes |
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