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WWII Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President of the US during the Depression and WWII. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Severe economic downturn that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929. | Great Depression |
| Declaration of principles issued by Winston Churchill and FDR in August 1941. | The Atlantic Charter |
| Giving in to keep peace. | Appeasement |
| German brand of fascism. | Nazism |
| Roosevelt's program for creating new jobs and improving the American economy. | New Deal |
| Political movement based on nationalism the gives power to the dictator and takes away from individual rights. | Fascism |
| Germany, Italy, Japan. | Axis Powers |
| Prime minister of Britain. | Winston Churchill |
| Belief the political ties with other countries should be avoided. | Isolationism |
| Warfare in which surprise air attacks are followed by massive attacks on land. | Blitzkrieg |
| Book by Hitler outlining his beliefs and goals for Germany. | Mein Kampf |
| Fascist leader of Italy. | Benito Mussolini |
| Fascist leader of Germany. | Adolf Hitler |
| Allied Powers. | US, USSR, Great Britain, Poland, France, China |
| Agreement that says countries will not attack or invade one another. | Non-Aggression Pact |
| Germanic People. | Aryans |
| "The night of broken glass", when the Nazi's attacked Jews throughout Germany. | Kristallnacht |
| Navy base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese. | Pearl Harbor |
| American general who helped drive the Germans out of Africa. | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Breaking down armed forces and military. | Demilitarization |
| Huge Allied invasion mounted to retake France from the Germans. | D-Day |
| Systematic killing of an entire people. | Genocide |
| Battle during which the Red Army forced the Germans out of Stalingrad. | The Battle if Stalingrad |
| Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity, held in Nuremberg, Germany. | Nuremberg Trials |
| Japanese admiral who decided that the US fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed. | Isoroku Yamamoto |
| Hitler's plan the kill as many Jews as possible. | Final Solution |
| Japanese suicide pilots | Kamikaze |
| US general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific. | Douglas MacArthur |
| Neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live. | Ghettos |
| Process of creating a government elected by the people. | Democratization |
| Systematic mass killing of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis. | Holocaust |
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