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Question	Answer
1.WWII began	1939
2.WWII ended	1945
3.What year did the U.S. enter?	1941
4.Pearl Harbor	December 7, 1941
5.D-Day	June 6, 1944
6.Hiroshima	August 6, 1945
7.Nagasaki	August 9, 1945
16. Adolf Hitler	totalitarian-German Chancellor and later Führer, leading the Nazi Party. Anti-Sem.
17. Franklin D. Roosevelt	President of the United States during a significant portion of World War II.
18. Harry S. Truman	Became President of the United States after Roosevelt's death. He made the decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
19. Benito Mussolini	Prime Minister of Italy and founder of Italian Fascism.
20. Hideki Tojo	Prime Minister of Japan and military leader.
21. Emperor Hirohito	Emperor of Japan
22. Neville Chamberlain	Great Britain appeasement, notably with the Munich Agreement.
23. Winston Churchill	British Prime Minister
24. Francisco Franco	Leader of Spain
25. Joseph Stalin	USSR. Man of Steel Communist. Battles
8.Battle of Britain	Aerial battle between the Royal Air Force (RAF) versus German Luftwaffe. The RAF saved Britain from invasion.
8.Battle of the Bulge	last major German offensive
10.Stalingrad	put German on defensive in war.
11.D-Day	The Allied invasion of Normandy, France. 5 beaches.
12.Midway	turning point for Pacific. crippled Japanese fleet.
13.Coral Sea	A first naval battle in air; broke Japanese code, they called off invasion of New Guinea.
14.Iwo Jima	First American attack on Japanese home island.
15.Okinawa	2000 kamikaze attacks. Operations
26.Operation Torch	An Allied invasion of North Africa.
27.Operation Overlord	(D-Day)Invasion of France..
28.Operation Barbarossa	German Invasion USSR.
29.“Day that will live in infamy”	President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan
30.“I shall return”	General Douglas MacArthur when he was forced to evacuate the Philippines
31. Montgomery	A British General defeated Rome.
32. Rommel	A German leader commanded “Africa Korps” .
33. Truman (Harry S. Truman)	Became the President of the United States after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. use of atomic bombs on Japan.
34. Eisenhower	Spanish Allied Commandeer.
35. Oppenheimer	developed the first atomic bomb during World War II.
36. Chester Nimitz	Commandeer of Pacific Navy.
37. MacArthur	An American general at Philipines.
38. Benjamin Davis	Commanded Tuskegee Airmen
39 Tuskegee Airmen	A group of African American military pilots
40. Axis Powers	Germany, Italy, and Japan.
41. Allied Powers	United States, Great Britain, USSR, France.
48. Manhattan Project	produced the first nuclear weapons/ atomic bomb. Led by the United States,
49. Liberty ships	lessinging welded not riveted US ships.
50. Lebensraum	"living room" for Nazis, gain land.
51. Double V Campaign	victory over fascism (racism) and victory over racism at home, and Hitler.
52. Internment camps	Japanese Americans in the United States, were forcibly relocated and confined during the war.
53. Concentration Camps	killed 6 millions Jews.
54. Final Solution	The Nazi plan for the to eliminate Jews.
55. Anschluss	unification of German and Austria.
56. Communism	state runs everything.
57. Fascism	Aggressive nationalism (Italy/Germany).
58. Holocaust	Nazi plan to extreminate Jews.
59. Enola Gay	plane dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in1945.
60. Shoah	A Hebrew term used to refer to the Holocaust.
61. Convoy system	cargo ships travel in groups, protected by naval vessels, to deter attacks by enemy submarines.
62. Ration	limited availability of goods (during wartime to ensure fair distribution and conservation).
63. Kamikaze	“divine wind” .Japanese suicide pilots crashing planes into enemy targets.
64. RAF (Royal Air Force)	Britain’s air force.
65. Luftwaffe	German air force
66. Auschwitz	extermination camp operated by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.2 million killed
67. Cost Plus System	A U.S. government wartime contracting system that provided larger profit percentage on their costs to companies. 68. Blitzkrieg
69. Munich Pact	Britain and France appeased Hitler by allowing the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. 70. Nazi
Events	42. Bataan Death March (1942)
43. V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day, August 1945)
44. Attack at Pearl Harbor Japan attacked US in war.
45. V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day, May 1945)
46. Kristallnacht (1938)	Also known as the Night of Broken Glass,Anti Jewish violence,
47. Island hopping	taking key islands on the way to Japan. strategy was used to minimize casualties and gain bases for airfields.
71. Neutrality Act of 1935	Made it illegal to sell arms to countries at war.
72. Nuremberg Laws (1935)	Law against Jews. Lost citizenship, jobs, etc.
73. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Treaty	German and USSR. divide polls.
74. Lend-Lease Act (1941)	UGreat Britain gets arms without paying.
75. Selective Service and Training Act (1940)	draft.

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