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Rickard WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allies | US, France, Great Britain, USSR |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Der Fuhrer | Adolf Hitler |
| Three Causes of WWII | Weak Treaty of Versailles, Rise in dictators in Europe, and Japanese Imperialism |
| What event started war in Europe? | Germany's invasion of Poland |
| Communist leader of the Soviet Union | Josef Stalin |
| Fascist leader of Italy | Benito Mussolini |
| "Day of Infamy" | Dec. 7, 1941; Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Name of the Allied invasion of France | Operation Overlord |
| Name of the Allied invasion of North Africa | Operation Torch |
| The deliberate and planned destruction of European Jews by the Nazis | The Holocaust |
| Supreme Court case that ruled wartime conditions justify limitations on civil liberties | Korematsu v. United States |
| Result of WWII | United States and Soviet Union emerged as world superpowers |
| Democratic government established in Germany after WWI | Weimar Republic |
| Chinese province that was invaded by Japanese forces in 1931 | Manchuria |
| Book written by Hitler while he was in prison | Mein Kampf |
| Germany's method of attack that used massive air strikes, "lightning war" | blitzkrieg |
| The popular symbol for the working women of WWII | Rosie the Riveter |
| "The Night of Broken Glass"; the night that Jewish synagogues, businesses, schools, and homes were attacked and destroyed | Kristallnacht |
| This American president decided to drop the atomic bombs on behalf of America | Truman |
| Sent a letter to FDR warning him that Hitler was attempting to atomic weaponry | Albert Einstein |
| The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima | Enola Gay |
| Five beaches that were stormed at Normandy | Utah, Omaha, Juno, Gold, Sword |
| German word meaning "living space"; Hitler used as justification for invading European territories | Lebensraum |
| Test site in the United States for the atomic bomb | Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| Hitler's extreme elite police force | SS |
| Three Theaters of War | North Africa, Europe, Pacific |
| Hatred of Jews; hostility toward or prejudice against Jews | Anti-semitism |
| Nuremberg Laws | passed in 1935; stripped Jews of German citizenship and took away most civil and economic rights |
| The killing of an entire population of people | genocide |
| trials faced by leading Nazis for their roles in the Holocaust; International Military Tribunal-located in Nuremberg, Germany | The Nuremberg Trials |
| limiting the amount of a certain product each individual can get | rationing |
| the forced relocation and confinement of Japanese-Americans to camps in the American desert | Japanese internment |
| program that set limits on the prices that businesses could charge for products and materials in America | Office of Price Administration |
| effort based in Oak Ridge, TN which resulted in the development of the first atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| US army training centers in Tennessee | Fort Campbell and Camp Forrest |
| Lawyer from TN; served in US House of Representatives, US Senate, and as Sec. of State under FDR | Cordell Hull |
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