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WWI-WWII
World war one and two History of the world
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| League of Nations | ensure international justice |
| U.S. emerged as the | most powerful nation of the world |
| Great Depression | 1930-1940 |
| Mussolini comes to power in Italy | 1922 |
| Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight | 1927 |
| Hitler comes to power in Germany | 1933 |
| U.S. recognizes Communist government in Russia | 1933 |
| Mussolini invades Ethiopia | 1935 |
| Hitler takes Austria | 1936 |
| Germany and Russia invade Poland | 1939 |
| Paris falls | 1940 |
| Battle of Britain | 1940 |
| Allies capture Rome | 1944 |
| D-DAY invasion | 1944 |
| Nazi troops invade Russia | 1941 |
| Japan attacks Pearl Harbor | December 1941 |
| Germany surrenders | 1945 |
| Atomic bombs dropped on Japan | 1945 |
| Allies secure North Africa | 1943 |
| World War II | 1939-1945 |
| Mussolini | 1883-1945 |
| fascism | form of socialism which allows people to keep their private property but takes away their freedoms |
| National Socialist German Workers' Party, aka | Nazis |
| Nazism | terrorist aggression, fanatical racism, and antidemocratic nationalism |
| Nietzsche | German thinker |
| Kierkegaard | Danish philosopher |
| Freud, a prominent thinker, formulated the system known as | psychoanalysis |
| Christians held to the | fundamentals of the faith |
| J. Gresham Machen | the great Princeton scholar |
| R.A. Torrey | brillant teacher and writer |
| Billy Sunday | tried to lead others back to christ |
| Gypsy Smith, G. Campbell Morgan | pastors and teachers that wanted to lead others back to the Lord |
| Harry Rimmer | fought Modernism in the universities by refuting the error of evolution |
| Roaring twenties | people found plenty of ways to spend their money and have more fun than ever before |
| Herbert Hoover | president of the U.S.A. 1928 |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1932 U.S. president |
| The New Deal | introduced U.S. socialism |
| Third Reich | Hitler's new government |
| Storm troopers | member of the Nazi militia |
| Hitler Youth | young people joined this group |
| Nazi persecution of the | Jews |
| Mussolini and Hitler joined forces | Rome-Berlin Axis |
| Spanish Civil War | 1936-1939 |
| Neville Chamberlain | leading voice in Europe |
| Munich | Nazi meeting place |
| Joseph Stalin | the Communist dictator of Russia |
| Nazi-Soviet pact | secret agreement to jointly invade Eastern Europe and divide the land between them |
| World War II | September 1, 1939- Germany invaded Poland |
| Denmark and Norway | invaded by the Nazis |
| Holland and Belgium | fell to Germany in 5 and 18 days |
| Royal Air Force | held Germans off long enough for hundreds of small British crafts of all kinds, both military and civilian to ferry 300,000 troops across the Channel to safety in Britain |
| The fall of Paris | June 14, 1940 |
| Petian | 84 year old came to power and asked Hitler for an armistice |
| Free French government under the leadership of | Charles De Gaulle |
| Winston Churchill | prime minister of Great Britain |
| Battle of Great Britain | Nazis bombed the city of London mercilessly |
| Japan attacked | Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii December 7, 1941 |
| December 8, 1941 | FDRoosevelt declared the USA was going to war |
| War in Africa and Europe | 1941-1945 |
| May 1943 | Corps surrendered to the allies |
| D-Day invasion | June 6, 1944 |
| Battle of the Bulge | last great offensive in the West |
| July 20, 1944 | bomb exploded in Hitler's headquarters but failed to kill the Fuhrer |
| Death of Mussolini | Italian patriots found him and shot him, the hung his body in the public square for all to see |
| Death of Adolf Hitler | committed suicide and murdered his wife and dog by giving everyone poison to drink at their dinner |
| War in the Pacific | 1941-1945 |
| the start of the Bataan Death March | General Douglas MacArthur was forced to leave the Philippines so he would not be captured |
| Bataan Death March | over 60,000 Americans became prisoners to the Japanese and 10,000 died |
| HOW long the death march was | the walk was 70 miles to the prison camps |
| Important battles | Battle of the Coral Sea May 1942 |
| Battle of Midway | June 1942- turned the tide of the war |
| the Japanese completely refused to, | surrender |
| April 12, 1945 | Harry S. Truman became president |
| THE ATOMIC BOMB | dropped on the city of Hiroshima August 6, 1945 |
| THE SECOND ATOMIC BOMB | dropped on Nagasaki killing 40,000 people |
| September 2, 1945 | V-J Day-Victory in Japan day, General Douglas MacArthur accepted the surrender of the Japanese military leaders |
| Harry Truman said, | "today the guns were silenced" |
| Worldwide_ people died | nearly 60 million people |
| the Holocaust | concentration camps, gas chambers, medical experiments, starved, and burned |
| Treblinka, Dachau, Auschwitz | largest concentration camps |
| During a one week period_ pieces of men's clothing was delivered | 222,269 |
| During a one week period_ pieces of women's clothing was delivered | 192,652 |
| During a one week period_ pieces of children's clothing was delivered | 99,922 |
| Over 6 million_ were killed by the Nazis | Jews, Europeans, and some Germans |
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