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WW II
Question | Answer |
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what are the dates of the world war 2 | 1930-1945 |
when did Italy invade Ethiopia | 1935 |
when did Japan invade China | 1937 |
when did Germany invade Czechoslovakia | 1939 |
what countries did Germany invade between 1939-1940 | Denmark Norway Luxembourg Belgium Netherlands France |
what are the axis countries | Germany Italy Japan |
what are the allies countries | US France Great Britain Russia |
what is Blitzkrieg | the lightning war (a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower) |
what was the most important country that Germany invaded | France |
when did France fall | 1940 |
how did France help the US and Great Britain | with underground fighters |
what did the axis countries believe in | they believed in racism didnt believe in democracy believed that a country should have one leader and that leader should be a god |
what was the Holocaust | complete extermination |
when did the US enter the war | the US entered the war when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 |
the presidential election of 1940 | Franklin Roosevelt (won for 3rd term) Wendell Willkie |
explain the damage done by Japan | sunk or damaged 8 war ships 7 other ships 188 airplanes 3500 Americans hurt or killed |
when did the US declare war on Japan | December 8, 1941 |
3 days after we declared war who declared war on us | Italy and Japan |
the election 1944 | Franklin Roosevelt (won for 4th term) Tomas Dewey |
how much money did the war cost the US | $350 Billion |
who was the war good for | Blacks |
who was the war not good for | 100k Japanese Americans who were forced to live in concentration camps |