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What left many countries like Italy, Germany, and Japan feeling betrayed?
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What left many countries like Italy, Germany, and Japan feeling betrayed? Treaty of Versallies
What did many European countries turn to due to Europes economic depression and the peoples belief that their democratic governments were too weak? dictators
Who was the director 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
What was 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 France 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 WWI 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 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? Invasion of Poland
Which 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? Invasion of the Soviet Union
What supported the British by allowing them to obtain American war goods without having to pay for them directly? Land and Lease Act
What did Roosevelt and Churchill sign in order to show their alliance to the world? Atlantic Charter
What event caused the United States to declare war on Japan Attack on Pearl Harbor
What alliance was made of Italy, Germany, and Japan? Axis Powers
What alliance was made up of Britain, France, America, The Soviet Union, and China? Allied Powers
What continent did US troops see their first group action? Africa
Who was the US General in charge of the US troops in the Phillipines? General Douglas MacArthur
What horrible event followed the defeat of the Us troops and Filipino troops defeat in the Philipines? The Batan 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 internment camp was Kenji and his family imprisoned in? Manzanar
What Japanese word was used to describe an American born Japanese American? Nisei
What event knocked Mussolini out of power? 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 rhe sea born invasion of the beaches of Normandy? Operation Neptune
What five Norman beaches were targeted and invaded during the invasion of Normandy? Sword, Utah, Gold, Omaha, and juno
During what battle did the German army regroup for one final offensive against the Allies? Battle of the Bulge
What evenjt led to the suicide of Hitler and the surrender of Germany? Invasion of Germany
What day/event took place on May 8th 1945 and made the end of the was in Europe official? V-eDay
What Allied strategy involved invading Japan controlled islands in order to build a path to invade Japan? Island Hopping
Who willing committed suicide by crashing their planes intp US targets? Kamikaze Pilots
What event led to the surrender of Japan? Atomic Bomb
What event /day took place on August 14th 1945 and made the end of WWII official? V-Jday
What was Hitlers plan to exterminate all European Jews called? Final Solution
How many Jews were estimated to have been killed in the Holocaust? 6 million
What are wartime acts cruelty and brutality that are judged to be beyond the accepted rules of war and human behavior? War crimes
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