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History final Study Guide for WW2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President of US | FDR |
| Japan invades what and when | Manchuria to expand and for resources 1931 |
| Where did Italy invade and when | Ethiopian 1935 |
| Italian dictator | Mussolini |
| German leader | Hitler |
| Where does japan invade? | china |
| Japans leader | Hirohito |
| What did Hirohito try and do | Take over as much land as possible in the pacific |
| Germany invades what and when | Germany invades Poland (1939) |
| axis powers | Germany, italy, japan |
| allied powers | America, France, Britain , soviet union |
| turning points | d-day and mid way |
| D-day | massive Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France on 1944 |
| mid way battle | USA fought japan halted Japanese expansion and severely crippled the Imperial Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier capabilities The U.S. Navy lost one aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown. 1942 |
| When did FDR die and who took over | FDR dies in apr 12 1945, harry truman takes over |
| Mahattan project | nuke project, got delayed |
| Soviet Union leader | Joseph stalin |
| Britain prime minister in ww2 | Winston Churchill, he feared that communism would take over |
| what happened to lots of colonial places after ww2 | They became independent countries |
| Hitlers death led to what | Dry war in Europe |
| Japan pilots that were ruthless called | Kamikazi pilots |
| What places got nuked | Nagasaki and Hiroshima |
| Blitzkrieg | German fighting tactic, fast, overwhelming fire-power, rapid |