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World War 2 J
Junior U.S. History world war 2 study stack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| U.S. Leader | FDR and then Truman |
| FDR | Fredrick D Roosevelt mad the Quarantine speech. |
| Truman | President after FDR. gave the "ok" to drop the atomic bombs |
| Britain's Leader | Churchill and Chamberlain |
| Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during the battle of Britain |
| Chamberlain | Prime Minister during Munich Conference. then After the Munich Conference stated "there will be peace in our time." |
| France Leader | Charles DeGaulle |
| DeGaulle | after the fall of France, he establishes the free french government in London |
| Germany Leader | Hitler |
| Hitler | Rise to power and began to re-militarizing Germany |
| Italy Leader | Mussolini |
| Mussolini | gains control in Italy and establishes a fascists government |
| Fascism | form of government that stressed nationalism while placing the interests of the state above those of the individual |
| Soviet-union Leader | Stalin |
| stalin | established a totalitarian government in this communist nation |
| Japan leader | Tejo and Hirohito |
| Tejo | Military leader that began to exert power & control over emperor Hirohito |
| Hirohito | Emperor |
| lebensraum | living space, the reason for taking the sudetenland |
| anchluss | union, referring to the union between austria and germany |
| night of broken glass | Kristallnatch, nazi storm trooopers attacked jewish homes, business, and synagoges across Germany |
| Einstein | scientist who warned america about nuclear weapons and reason america made the atomic bomb |
| nye comittee | fueled the controversy by documenting the large profits that banks and manufactures made during war |
| america first | idea that FDR put America first through everything. FDR made sure american people was the first priority |
| lend-lease | America lended weapons and goods to britain and france. |
| cash-and-carry | America would give weapons to Britain, mainly, only if Britain could transport and carry the goods and pay in cash. |