Term | Definition |
What left many countries like Italy, Germany, and Japan feeling betrayed | Treaty of Verallies |
What did many European countires turn to due Europe's economic depression and the peoples belief that their democratic governments were to weak | Dictators |
Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union | Josef Stalin |
What is a state where a dictator has control over all aspects of life | Totalitarian State |
Who was the dictator of Italy | Benito Mussolini |
What type of state is a system based on militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to its leader | Fascist |
Who was the dictator of Germany | Adolf Hitler |
What was NAZI part short for | National Socialist Herman Workers Party |
What group did Hitler blame Germany's loss in WWI on | Jews |
What was Britain and France meeting with Hitler in Munich and meeting his demand to sat out of war an example of | Appeasement |
What type of policy did American return to after WWI by trying to avoid getting involved in aggression across the world | Isolationism |
What did Hitler and Stalin sign agreeing to not attack each other | Nonaggression Pact |
What event caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany | Invasion of Poland |
Which of the Allied Powers was easily conquered by Hitler in only 6 weeks | France |
What Event forced Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to become unwillingly allies | Invasion of the Soviet Union |
What supported the British by allowing them to obtain American war goods without having to pay for them directly | Lend Lease Act |
What did Roosevelt and Churchill sign in order to show their alliance to the world | Atlantic Chartes |
What event caused the United States to declare war on Japan | Pearl Habor |
What alliance was made of Italy, Germany, and Japan | Axis Powers |
What alliance was made up of Britain, France, America, The Soviet Union, and China | Allied Powers |
What continent did U.S. troops see their first ground action | Africa |
Who was the U.S. General in charge of the U.S. troops in the Philippines | Douglass Machauther |
What horrible event followed the defeat of U.S. and Filipino troops defeat in the Philippines | The Batan Death March |
What two battles in the Pacific allowed the U.S. to stop japan from invading surrounding island countries | The Battle of Coral Sea and Island of Michuery |
What Japanese word was used to describe an American born Japanese American | Niesei |
What Japanese interment camp was Kenji and his family imprisoned in the song Kenji | Manzanar |
What knocked Mussolini out of power | United States and Britain invade Italy (Invasion of Italy) |
What event took place on June 6th 1944 | D-Day |
What was the code name for the invasion of Europe | Operation Overlord |
What was the code name given the sea born invasion of the beaches of Normandy | Operation Neptune |
What five Norman beaches were targeted and invaded during the invasion of Normandy | Sword, Utah, Gold, Omaha, Juno |
During what battle did the German army regroup for one final offensive against in the Allies | Battle of the Bulge |
What event led to the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the surrender of Germany | Invasion Of Germany |
What day/event took place on May 8th 1945 and made the end of the war in Europe offical | V-E Day |
What Allied Strategy involved invading Japanese controlled islands in order to build a path to invade Japan? | Island Hopping |
Who willing committed suicide by crashing their planes into U.S. targets | Japanese Kam Kaze ..bomb.. |
What even led to the surrender of Japan | Atomic Bomb |
What event/ day took place of August 14th, 1945 and made the end if WWII offical | V-J Day |
What was Hitler's plan to exterminate all European Jews called | Final Solution |
How many Jews were estimated to have been killed in the Holocaust | Around 6 million |
What are wartime acts of cruelty and brutality that are judged to be beyond the acceptance rules of war and human behavior | war crimes |
What countries democratic government was being pressured by its military leaders to invade nearby countries fro needed space and raw materials | Japan |
What U.S.congress pass to keep us out of was by forbidding the President from working with countries that are at war | Nuetrality Act |