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Social Studies-CH 19
WW II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hitler wrote the book "Mein Kampf" which means | "My Struggle" |
| facist group in Germany led by Hitler | National Socialists |
| Great Depression began when the U.S. stock market crashed in: | 1929 |
| type of government which stresses the Nation above the Individual | Fascist |
| night of nationwide violence against Jews in Germany | Kristallnacht |
| in 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to invade this country together | Poland |
| period of economic decline | Depression |
| in a fascist country , the leader is usually a ________: a person who has total control over the government | Dictator |
| leader of the Italian Fascists | Benito Mussolini |
| Nazis used this, the planned spread of certain beliefs, to convince the German citizens that the Jews were responsible for all of Germany's problems | Propoganda |
| Britain's Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, met with Hitler and agreed to give him the German-speaking lands in _______ if Hitler promised to stop attacking countries in Europe | Czechoslovakia |
| policy of meeting the demands of an agressor in order to preserve peace | Appeasement |
| Japan invaded ________, so they could gain access to raw materials and would not have to rely on imports from other countries | Manchuria |
| Communist dictator in the Soviet Union in 1920 | Joseph Stalin |
| prime minister of Britain-1939 | Winston Churchill |
| battle in which German Air force attacked british Royal Air Force above the skies of Great Britain | Battle of Britain |
| day on which Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor | December 7,1941 |
| country which did Not belong to the Axis powers | Soviet Union |
| counry which did NOT belong to the Allied Powers | Japan |
| which of these leaders were part of the big three | Joseph Stalin |
| the Big Three all agreed to focus on defeating which country first | Germany |
| at this battle, the German army was stopped and forced to retreat out of the Soviet Union | Battle of Stalingrad |
| date on which Allies launched largest sea invasion in history landing on the German occupied beaches of Normandy | June 6, 1944 |
| supreme commander of the Allied forces on D-Day | Dwight Eisenhower |
| German's final offensive trying to push thru the Allied defense lines in France-August 1944 | Battle of the Bulge |
| Japanes suicide planes | Kamikaze |
| 1st Allied victory in the Pacific | Battle of Midway |
| U.S. Navy military campaign which avoided heavily defended Japanese islands and took the ones less defended | Island Hopping |
| top-secret government program to develop the atomic bomb | The Manhattan Project |
| $13 billion in U. S help to rebuild European economies after the war | The Marshall Plan |