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World War II
Test prep for unit 6 test on World War II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| leader of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945 | Hitler |
| leader of fascist Italy from 1922-1945 | Mussolini |
| leader of the Soviet Union from 1924-1953 | Stalin |
| U.S. president from 1933-1945, president during most of World War II | Roosevelt |
| U.S. president from 1945-1953, serving after FDR's death; chose to use the atomic bomb on Japan | Truman |
| prime minister of Great Britain elected in 1940; spoke out against appeasement when in Parliament | Churchill |
| prime minister of Great Britain who declared "peace in our time" after appeasing Hitler at the Munich conference | Chamberlain |
| A system of government characterized by strict social and economic control and a strong, centralized government usually headed by a dictator. First found in Italy by Mussolini | fascism |
| A political and economic system where factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state. | communism |
| established legal basis in Nazi Germany for discrimination against Jews. | Nuremberg Laws |
| meeting between Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain to discuss the fate of the Sudetenland; Great Britain and France appeased Hitler at this conference by allowing him to have the Sudetenland | Munich Conference |
| practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war | appeasement |
| Germany, Italy and Japan made up this alliance in WWII | Axis Powers |
| Great Britain and France made up this alliance in WWII; later joined by the Soviet Union and the United States | Allied Powers |
| signed between Germany and the Soviet Union, agreeing not to attack each other and to divide Poland between them | nonaggression pact |
| nation invaded by Germany, beginning WWII | Poland |
| "lightning war" | blitzkrieg |
| location of France's surrender to Germany in 1940; the site where Germany signed an armistice ending WWI in 1918 | Compiegn Forest |
| the U.S. naval base in the Pacific Ocean that was attacked in December 1941 by the Japanese | Pearl Harbor |
| internment, forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese in the western U.S. after Pearl Harbor | internment |
| concentration camps, prison camps established by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party for Jews and other political prisoners during the war | concentration camps |
| the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler | Holocaust |
| 1945 Meeting with Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin to discuss the end of the war | Yalta Conference |
| bomb dropped by an American bomber on Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroying both cities | atomic bomb |
| The code name for the beginning plans of D-day and the invasion of France's coast | Operation Overlord |
| WWII battle in which German forces launched a final counterattack in the west | Battle of the Bulge |
| battle in the Pacific won by the United States bringing the United States within 350 miles of Japan | Okinawa |
| a WWII battle between Japanese forces and invading U.S. troops bringing the United States within 750 miles of Japan | Iwo Jima |
| the largest naval engagement in military history in which Japan lost most of its remaining sea power and the ability to defend the Philippines. First of the suicide attacks by Japanese pilots | Leyte Gulf |
| American strategy in the Pacific of only attacking key Japanese held island while skipping over less significant islands | island hopping |
| code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II | Manhattan Project |
| Hiroshima, Japanese city on which the first atomic bomb was dropped | Hiroshima |
| Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped | Nagasaki |
| Truman warns Japanese and offers a chance for surrender before dropping the a-bomb | Potsdam Ultimatum |
| Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an International Military Tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes | Nuremberg Trials |
| approximate number of Jews killed by Hitler | six million |
| Area demilitarized after WWI that Hitler takes back in 1936 | Rhineland |
| in 1938 Hitler invaded and annexed this country violating the Treaty of Versailles | Austria |
| city in Russia site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943 and the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union | Stalingrad |
| economic hardship that affected nations throughout the world | Great Depression |
| group most heavily targeted in the Holocaust | European Jews |
| Hitler's action after the Red Army advanced into Berlin | suicide |
| China, large Asian nation attacked in 1931 by Japan; the attack of this nation led to American embargoes against Japan | China |
| U.S. policy of avoiding foreign conflicts at the beginning of WWII | isolationism |
| last Axis Power to surrender to the Allies | Japan |
| Adolf Hitler's political party | Nazi |
| peace treaty to end WWI; Mussolini and Hitler felt their nations had been cheated by this treaty | Treaty of Versailles |
| Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy who gave Mussolini legitimacy as dictator | Victor Emmanuel III |
| Mussolini's private army that broke up strikes and socialist meetings | Blackshirts |
| Stalin's position in the politburo under Lenin; Stalin used this position to establish dictatorial powers in the Soviet Union | general secretary |
| Stalin's chief rival after V.I. Lenin's death in 1924 | Trotsky |
| Five Year Plans, Stalin's plans to transform Russia into an industrialized country after becoming dictator | five year plans |
| Stalin's plans of taking farms from the farmers to create large, government-controlled farms | collectivization |
| Hitler's failed attempt to violently overthrow the German government in 1923 | Beer Hall Putsch |
| Hitler was given this title in Germany | chancellor |
| the autobiography of Adolf Hitler setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest | Mein Kampf |
| Reichstag, German parliament, as well as the parliamentary building | Reichstag |
| Gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for 4 years | Enabling Act |
| French line along the border of Germany; French thought that no enemy could pierce this 350-mile line | Maginot Line |
| the nickname for President Franklin Roosevelt British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin who met to discuss postwar plans | the Big Three |
| state in which the first atomic bomb test was done | New Mexico |
| airplane that delivered the first atomic bomb strike on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 | Enola Gay |
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