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GD/WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Axis powers | Germany, Japan, Italy |
| Allie powers | U.S, Great Britain, Soviet Union |
| Axis leaders | Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini |
| Allie leaders | Churchill, Roosevelt/Truman, Stalin |
| Fascism | A political system that is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state |
| Appeasement | The practice of giving into aggression in order to avoid war |
| Why did appeasement fail in preventing war? | Hitler’s Germany wasn’t going to stop seizing land |
| Rise of Benito Mussolini | 1922 |
| Rise of Joseph Stalin | 1924 |
| Rise of Adolf Hitler | 1933 |
| German troops enter the Rhineland | 1936 |
| Germany annexes Austria | 1938 |
| Germany annexes Czechoslovakia | 1938 |
| Cash and Carry | U.S. could sell arms to the allies but they had to pay cash and carry it in their own ships |
| Destroyers for Bases | U.S. traded Britain 50 old destroyers for 99 year leases on military bases in Newfoundland and the Caribbean |
| Lend Lease Act | allowed the sale or loan of war materials to “any country whose defense of the President deems vital to the defense of the United States” |
| Germany’s blitzkrieg invasion of what European country officially began WWII? | Poland |
| What European country aided Germany in its invasion of Poland? | Soviet Union |
| What European country surrendered 6 weeks after the fall of its capital on June 22, 1940? | France |
| German planes dropped bombs on London and other British cities in the battle that became known as the | Battle of Britain |
| In June of 1941, Hitler’s Germany invaded this European country | Soviet Union |
| The city of Stalingrad is where Germany surrendered, where was Stalingrad located? | Soviet Union |
| Germany’s last attempt to repel the allies from Northern France came on December 16, 1944 in the | Battle of the Bulge |
| Germany finally surrendered after the death of Adolf Hitler on | May 7, 1945 |
| In early September, 1943, the Allies crossed from Sicily to the mainland of | Italy |
| On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded Northern | France |
| U.S Embargo | an attempt to get Japan to withdraw its armies from China and Southeast Asia. |
| On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked | Pearl Harbor |
| On December 8, 1941 the United States declared war on | Japan |
| The Pacific strategy of capturing some Japanese held islands and going around others was called | Island hopping |
| As the war dragged on and Japan began to run out of supplies and men, they began to turn to | Kamikaze |
| Enola Gay dropped an Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of | Hiroshima |
| On August 9, 1945 a second Atomic bomb destroyed the Japanese city of | Nagasaki |
| On August 14, 1945 | Japan surrenders |
| The best estimate that historians have is that WWII caused between | 30 to 60 million deaths |
| Who helped U.S. factories shift from making consumer goods to war materials? | War Production Board |
| The U.S. government imposed | Rationing |
| Who fought against discrimination? | Tuskegee Airmen |
| Americans grew 40% of all of the vegetables in | Victory Gradens |
| If you can drive a car, you can run a machine. | Rosi the Riveter |
| Causes of GD | Over production, over borrowing, uneven distribution of wealth, collapse of banks. |
| Effects of GD | Banks and businesses fail, unemployment, hungry/homeless, struggling farmers, dustbowl, world-wide-depression |
| Hundred Days | March 9 - June 16, 1933, Congress passes 15 new major laws |
| Bank Holiday | All banks were closed for 4 days, only banks with enough $ to meet depositors demands could reopen |
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | Employed single men 18-25, paid $1 per day (Planted trees, built bridges, airports, dams, parks, schools hospitals) |
| Works Progress Administration (WPA) | Built hospitals, schools, parks, playgrounds, airports, made clothes |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) | Government paid farmers to not grow certain crops and the government paid farmers to destroy surplus animals/crops |
| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | Remade the Tennessee Valley by building 49 dams and deepening rivers |
| National Labor Relations Act | Protected workers from unfair business practices (Guaranteed collective bargaining) |
| Social Security Act | Pensions for older people and supports dependent children and the disabled |
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