World War II Causes
This was the document that Germany was forced to sign after WWI causing them to accept blame for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versaille?
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The date when the second world war officially started.
When is September 1, 1939?
Germany was divided into THIS after the war.
What is Eastern and Western Germany?
The place where Jews and others were imprisoned and murdered.
What are concentration camps?
The whole world was hit by this causing businesses to close, prices to fall, banks to fail, and unemployment to rise.
What is an economic depression?
A leader who gains complete control of a country's government.
What is a dictator?
True or false: The US immediately entered the war when it began.
The US offered aid to Europe to help rebuild roads, bridges, and buildings that had been destroyed. This was known as the ____ Plan.
What is the Marshall?
The name of the Nazis' mass murder of over 6 million innocent people, including Jews, Romas, and prisoners of war?
What is the Holocaust?
Germany was secretly building THIS up and eventually joined forces with Italy and Japan.
What is their military?
The President of the United States at the beginning of WWII
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt? (FDR)
Americans were known as this because they didn't want to get involved in the war.
What are isolationists?
This was built in the capital of Germany to divide the sections of the city controlled by both the Soviet Union and the US.
What is the Berlin Wall?
True or false: Women served in the military as pilots and mechanics.
This is the country that Britain and France agreed to protect, and warned Germany to not invade, as they would officially then declare WWII?
What is Poland?
Germany, Italy, and Japan were collectively called...
What are the Axis Powers?
The policy where U.S. decided to help by allowing Britain to borrow all of the military supplies it needed without having to repay the US.
What is the Lend-Lease policy?
This country was forced to surrender after the atomic bomb was dropped.
What is Japan?
Where is Internment Camps?
Japan invaded China and other parts of South East Asia, thus leading to the US blocking trade with the country. Japan then felt US threatened its expansion, and launched an attack on this location.
What is Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
Great Britain, France, U.S., and Soviet Union were collectively called...
Who were the Allied Powers?
This Project was known as the efforts by the U.S. to build an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The Allies formed this in order to try and PREVENT WWIII from happening.
What is the United Nations?
The name of the first group of African American pilots to fly combat missions in WWII