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World War II
Mrs. Brown's World War II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nazi Dictator of Germany | Adolf Hitler |
| Fascist Dictator of Italy | Benito Mussolini |
| Communist Dictator of the Soviet Union | Joseph Stalin |
| Giving in to someones demands in hopes of avoiding war | Appeasement |
| War between 1939 - 1945 that helped bring the world our of the Depression | WWII |
| Germany, Italy, and Japan | Axis Powers |
| France, Britain, Soviet Union, and later US | Allied Powers |
| Germany and the Soviet Union agreed that Hitler would not invade the Soviet Union and they divided Poland | Non-Aggression Pact |
| Lightning War - Hitler threw everything he had to hit hard and fast and take over as much as he can | Blitzkreig |
| US is going to stay Neutral and not take sides in WWII | Neutrality Act |
| Volunteer pilots sent to China to help fight Japan | Flying Tigers |
| US would sell, lease, or lend weapons to allies or anyone important to our nation's security | Lend-Lease Act |
| Japan bombed this Military base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, bringing the US into WWII | Pearl Harbor |
| Sold to finance the war | War Bonds |
| The famous Icon for Women during WWII | Rosie the Rivetor |
| People were asked to grow their own produce instead of buying it from the store so more could be sent to the troops | Victory Gardens |
| People were given a certain amount of scarce goods during WWII such as meats, flour, gas, sugar, rubber, and material | Rationing |
| War Bonds, women working in factories, Liberty Gardens, and Rationing were taking place here | Home Front |
| Monitored propaganda so it was pro-allies and anti-axis | Office of War Information |
| All African American group of pilots who fought in WWII | Tuskegee Airmen |
| They used American Indian language to send messages so they couldn't be translated by the Japanese | Navajo Code Talkers |
| This legislation forced all Japanese Americans into internment camps for the duration of the war | Executive Order 9066 |
| Court case that justified taking freedoms away during times of war | Korematsu v. US |
| US General who led the invasion of Africa and Italy | George Patton |
| June 6, 1944 Allied troops invade France at Normandy | D-Day |
| The official name of D-Day invasion | Operation Overlord |
| US General who was in charge of US troops in D-Day invasion | Dwight Eisenhower |
| General who led the troops into France | Omar Bradley |
| Last offensive attack Germany makes, considered a tuning point in the war. This allowed allied troops to break through German lines | Battle of the Bulge |
| Victory in Europe Day | VE Day |
| African American soldier who received a medal of honor | Vernon Baker |
| Attempt to kill an entire race of people | Genocide |
| Hitler's systematic extermination of over 6 million Jews | The Holocaust |
| Camps where Jews were imprisoned and worked themselves to death | Concentration Camps |
| Camps built to quickly and easily kill large numbers of Jews | Extermination Camps |
| General who was in charge of Troops in the Pacific | Douglas MacArthur |
| The Japanese forced their prisoners of war to undertake a 60 mile march through the Jungle, almost half of the Americans died along the way. | Bataan Death March |
| Turning point in the war against Japan, US sunk 4 Japanese carriers and Japan could no longer go on the offensive | Battle of Midway |
| The strategy used in - US troops would liberate one island at a time to get closer to mainland Japan | Island Hopping |
| Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein secretly worked to create the Atomic Bomb | Manhattan Project |
| THe two Islands where the US dropped the atomic bombs hoping to get Japan to surrender | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Victory in Japan Day | VJ Day |
| Nazi and Japanese Leaders were put on trial for "Crimes against Humanity" | Nuremberg Trials |
| Created after WWII to replace the League of Nations - the goal was to help maintain world peace | United Nations |
| Ended WWI - Very Harsh on Germany. Took land, military, and made Germany take blame for WWI and pay massive reparations. | The Treaty of Versailles |
| The US put economic sanctions on Japan and stopped providing much needed oil. This was the cause of Pearl Harbor. | Oil Embargo |
| The military leader of Japan | Hideki Tojo |
| A political leader who has absolute power | Dictator |
| The US brought Mexicans back into the US to provide labor in agriculture | Bracero Program |
| This was made up of Franklin Roosevelt (US), Winston Churchill (Britain), and Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) | "Big Three" |
| Slogan used by minorities to show they were fighting for victory abroad (the war) and victory at home (equal rights) | Double V Campaign |
| The surprise bombing of Tokyo that was a boost to US morale during a low point in the war. | Doolittle Raid |
| The Women's Army Corps and Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services during WWII | WACS/WAVES |
| Form of government that permits no individual freedoms and controls all aspects of individual life. | Totalitarianism |
| A government led by a dictator that forcibly suppresses opposition, controls industry, emphasizes nationalism | Facism |
| Roosevelt emphasized the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and freedom from want | Four Freedoms |
| The annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 | Austrian Anschluss |
| A regiment made up almost entirely of 2nd generation Japanese Americans (Nisei). They were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. | 442nd Infantry |
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