A Democracy. Power relies in the people, with the consent of the people. Elections to see who is in power.
What is the USA.
100
What event led the US to declare war on December 7th, 1941?
The attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
100
What did the Nazis say the "final solution" was to the Jewish population?
Extermination in death camps.
100
Which country passed the "Neutrality Acts"?
USA
100
Who won the war?
The Allies
200
Very racist. Want to expand territory. Tend to blame others for their problems.
What is Germany.
200
What were the terms of the Munich Pact?
Hitler could take the Sudentenland, but that was it! He could not take anymore of Czechoslovakia.
200
What do we call the day when the Allies stormed the beach of Normandy on June 6, 1944?
D-DAY
200
What was the "Lend-Lease Act"?
A law that allowed the US to lend arms to the Allies.
200
What event made Japan surrender to the allies on August 14th, 1945?
The Manhattan Project- bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
300
Communist. The government controls everything! If you do not follow the government you will be arrested, jailed, and or killed or sent to a concentration camp by the "secret police".
What is the Soviet Union.
300
What country did Hitler invade that led to France and Britain declaring war?
Poland.
300
List the main countries that were part of the Allies.
GB, France, US, China, Italy, etc..
300
How would you describe Britain and France's policy toward Hitler before WW2 broke out?
A policy of appeasement.
300
What world security force was created after the war (comparable to the old League of Nations)?
UN- United Nations
400
The military controls everything. The philosophy is to kill by assassination all political opponents. The goal is worldwide expansion and domination.
What is Japan.
400
What Chinese city did Japan invade where they raped 20,000 women?
Nanjing.
400
To which part of the world did the US send most of their supplies, troops, and soldiers to when they entered the war?
Europe
400
What strategy did the US use to bypass a heavily defended island and then capture an island nearby that was not well defended?
Leapfrogging.
400
How did Hitler die?
Suicide.
500
The state comes first, and the individual is second. Unions and opposing political parties were outlawed. Blackshirt squads terrorized all opposition.
What is Italy.
500
What did they call the "puppet" government that the Nazis set up in France?
Vichy France
500
Describe the US military strategy of "leapfrogging".
Islands that are heavily defended by the Japanese were by-passed in order to capture nearby islands that were not well defended.
500
Put the following events in order of when they occurred:
-The attack on Pearl Harbor
-The Neutrality Acts
-The Lend-Lease Act
-The Neutrality Acts
-The Lend-Lease Act
-The attack on Pearl Harbor
500
What did they call the day that Japan surrendered?