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WWII info
Question | Answer |
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Scorched Earth Policy | Used by the Soviet Union, involved burning resources as they retreated |
V-E Day | Victory in Europe |
V-J Day | Victory in Japan |
D-Day | Invasion of normandy |
Benito Mussolini | The leader of Italy during WWII |
Dwight D Eisenhower | Supreme Allied Commander during WWII |
bi-polar world order | refers to the US and the USSR standing as the two world super powers after WWII |
Joseph Stalin | The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII |
What event started WWII | Germany's invasion of Poland |
Island Hoppoint | The US stragity for defeateing Japan by only occuping some islands on the way to Japan |
D-Day was successful because | The allies were able to gain control of France and ultimitlly invade Germany |
Battle of Britain | The Germans unsuccesful attempt to defeate Britain, it was the first German "stalemate" during WWII |
Before entering the war the US helped the Allies in what ways | Lend-Lease, Cash-Cary, Imposing sanctions on Japan |
What event brought the US into WWII | The attack on Peral Harbor |
Pre WWII ______ invaded ______ in Asia | Japan invaded Japan |
In Italy after WWI what were the conditions like? | Poor economically due to the lack of jobs |
All of the following are true regarding the Natzi-Soviet Nonagresson pact | agreement between Germany and the USSR, allowed for both nations to aquire part of Poland, neither side believed it would last |
Operaton Barbarossa | Was the name given to the unsuccssful attempt of the Germans to invade the USSR |
The decisive battle during the German invasion of the Soviet Union was? | The Battle of Stalingrad |
The allied invasion of North Africa.. | was codenamed operation torch, was important because it opened a way to attack Italy, The Allies fought French troops at first |
Yalta confernece | what did each country want and what was established |
The Battle of Midway | Was important because it was the turning point in the Pacific Theater. |
The Holocaust | be able to discuss a person's experence |
All of the following were outcomes of WWII | The US and USSR immerged as the two world superpowers, 70 million people fought in WWII/55 million died as a result of the war,The Atomic Age was begun |