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US His 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Government in which a single party or leader maintains strict control-represses the population | Totalitarianism |
| Russian leader, "The Great Terror" | Joseph Stalin |
| Italian leader founded the Facist Party | Benito Mussolini |
| German dictator, head of Nazi party-wanted to unify all Germanic people into one state | Adolf Hitler |
| Prejudiced against Jewish people | Antisemitic |
| Granting concessions | Appeasement |
| What did Italy and Japan expect to receive in exchange for their sacrifices during WWI? | Land |
| This political party rose to power in Germany during the 30"s. | Nazi's |
| Ways Mussolini used to maintain power in Italy | Threaten population |
| This organization hand no standing army and no real power | The League of Nations |
| Britian, France, and eventually many other nations | Allies |
| This had a cash-and-carry provision | Neutrality Act of 1939 |
| Agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan ensuring they would stand and fight together | Tipartite Pact |
| Allowed President Roosevelt to provide any type of economic aid to the allies | Lend-Lease Act |
| Used their militaries to invade and control other countries | Axix Powers |
| Encouraged national self-determination and strengthened the alliance between Britian and the US | Atlantic Charter |
| To increase economic support for Britian | Purpose of Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms"speech |
| Believed providing aid to Britian would keep U.S. our of the war | Interventionists |
| U.S. naval base in Pacific | Pearl Harbor |
| Japanese prime minister | Hideki Tojo |
| Relocation of American and Filipino Prisoners of war by Japanese | Bataan Death March |
| Corps of women who provided support services to U.S. Army | WAC |
| Commander of U.S. forces in Asia | Douglas MacArthur |
| Battle that forced Japan to give up New Guinea | Battle of Coral Sea |
| Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? | To destroy US ships and planes that threatened there desire to expand their empire by taking over new territory |
| Which ships were not at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked? | The aircraft carriers |
| When the US declared war on Japan, the US gov. took over big industries. Why? | To produce goods, such as guns, amunition, parachutes, canned food, for the war. |
| What happened to the economy of the US when war was declared? | It improved, because factories needed workers to make goods for the war; more people were employed which put more money into the economy. |
| Blitzkreig | "lightening war" |
| Prime Minister during WWII | Winston Churchill |
| Germany's peaceful union with Austria | Anschluss |
| Signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan declaring they would come to the aid of each other | Tripartite Pact |
| Army auxiliary corp for women | WAC - Women's Army Corp |
| WWII General who planned and executed a surprise attack on America on Dec. 7, 1941. | Hideki Tojo |
| WWII general of US Army forces in Asia | Douglas MacArthur |
| Why did the German people believe in Hitler's Nazi Party promises? | They lost much during the Great Depression and were looking for a leader to guide them to a better way of life |
| What did Japan do to recover from the Great Depression? | They took control of resource of other countries |
| What was used by France, Great Britian, and the US to encourage Germany to be a peaceful nation. | The appeasement policy; it didn't work. Germany took advantage of the other countries not coming to the aid of Germany's neighbor countries. Germany took control of some of them to control their resources. |
| This allowed nations at war to buy supplies as long as they paid cash and moved the supplies themselves. | The Neutrality Act of 1939 |
| Interventionists wanted the US to do this to avoid getting involved in WWII. | Send aid to Britian. |
| This action by the US was seen as an economic declaration of war against the Axis Powers. | The Lend-Lease Act |
| WHy did Pres. Toosevelt put an embargo on Naval and avaition supplies in 1940? | He hoped to stop the expansion of the Japanese empire |
| This newly created division of the government supervised the use of industry resources for the war effort | Office of War Mobilization |
| What happened on the Bataan Peninsula during WWII? | 75,000 sick malnuorished Allied prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese to march 55 miles up the Bataan Peninsula to a train which took them inland. Then they were forced to march 8 more miles. More than 7,000 of them died on the journey. |
| Germany,Italy, Japan | Axis Powers |
| Great Britian, France, US, Soviet Union | Allied Powers |
| National Socialist German Workers' Party | Nazi |
| Name of Hitler's book that he dictated in prison explaining the problems facing Germany | Mein Kampf (My Struggle) |
| An interconnected series of fortresses along the French border with Belgium | Maginot Line |
| Location where 338,000 British and French troops escaped over water to Britian | Dunkirk |
| Operation Sea Lion | Hitler's plan to invade Britian over water and through the air |
| A month long bombing of London, England by Hitler | The Blitz |
| Made the B-24 Liberator planes in its factories | Ford Motor Company |
| His ship yards produced large Liberty SHip for our Navy | Henry J. Kaiser |
| This Naval vesel carried the planes and pilots toward Japan to launch a supprise attack on Japan. | The Hornet |
| Name of pilot who lead the force of 16 B-25 bombers who's mission was to bomb Tokyo, Japan. | Colonel James Doolittle |
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