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WWII History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allies | -The United States -Britain -France -The Soviet Union -China |
| Adolf Hitler | -Was a socialist -Leader of the Nazi Party -transformed Germany into a totalitarian state -Orchestrated the Nazi's Holocaust to eliminate the Jewish Nation -Hitler was principally, and alone, responsible for starting World War II - |
| Nazi | -National Socialist German Workers' Party - |
| Fascism | exercises total control of political, economic, cultural, religious and social activities |
| Joseph Stalin | assumed full control of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union on 1927 |
| Chiang Kai-shek | was over the Nationalist Chinese government |
| Francisco Franco | was the General of the one side of the war, supported by Germany and Italy |
| Rhineland | The region of western Germany |
| Sudetenland | An area in the northwestern Czech Republic, on the border with Germany |
| Munich Pact | dismembered Czechoslovakia by giving the rich Sudetenland to Germany |
| Blitzkrig | An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory |
| RAF; Luftwaffe | The German air force before and during World War II |
| Winston Churchill | -one of the few who recognized the threat of renewed aggression and global war -became prime minister of Berlin |
| Wehrmacht | The German armed forces |
| Lend Lease Act | declared that any means of defense, including warships, which belonged to a friendly belligerent could be refitted or repaired in the United Stated |
| Douglas MacArthur | was sent to the Philippines to prepare the islands’ defence against future Japanese attack |
| Bataan Death March | forced march of 90,000 to 100,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese |
| Rationing | is when the government or civil authorities limit how much of an item or service that people can have |
| Rosie the Riveter | is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II |
| Bernard Montgomery | British army officer who during World War II commanded the British victories over German forces in North Africa and the Allied advance through Normandy |
| Operation Overload (D-day) | The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II |
| George Patton | officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II |
| Iwo Jima | The largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean east of Taiwan. The island was the scene of severe fighting during World War II |
| Harry Truman | became President after President Roosevelt died in office. He choose to use the atomic bomb against Japan in order to save the lives of the American serviceman |
| Potsdom Conference | a conference held in Potsdam where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended |
| Manhattan Project | the largest research and scientific effort of it's day |
| Hiroshima | it was destroyed in World War II by the first atomic bomb used in warfare |
| United Nations | An international organization composed of most of the countries of the world. It was founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and economic development |
| Axis Powers | -Germany -Italy -Japan |
| Mein Kampf | was Hitler's autobiography |
| Benito Mussolini | marched on Rome, seized the powers of government, ruthlessly crushed all opposition and transformed Italy in to a totalitarian, fascist state |
| Hideki Tojo | the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II and was a Military Leader |
| Vladimir Lenin | was the leader of the Bolsheviks |
| Appeasement | avoiding war by making concessions to another power |
| Charles de Gaulle | was over the Free French Government |
| Neville Chamberlain | was Prime Minister of Britain |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | adopted the important “cash-and-carry” principle for dealing with warring nations |
| Atlantic Charter | was a list of peace objectives agreed upon by two Allied leaders, Roosevelt & Churchill |
| War Protection Board | to regulate the production of materials and fuel during World War II |
| victory garden | were made to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort |
| Erwin Rommel | leader of the Afrika Korps |
| Operation Torch | The invasion of French North Africa by American and British forces |
| Dwight D Eisenhower | Allied commander in Europe |
| Operation Husky | was the Allied landing on Sicily in July 1943 |
| Fighting Red Tails | were the first pilots to shoot down the new German ME-262. They were also the only fighter pilots to sink a German destroyer single-handedly |
| Battle of the Bulge | the last major German offensive during World War II |
| island hopping | during World War 2, Allied strategy of capturing Japenese held islands to gain control of the Pacific. |
| Yalta Conference | split Germany into 4 zones |
| Enola Gay | became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war |
| atomic bomb | A very destructive bomb that derives its explosive power from the fission of atomic nuclei |
| Nagasaki | was the Japanese island were the second atomic bomb was dropped, killing 40,000 people |
| Holocaust | the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II |
| Yamamoto | was a naval leader |
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