Cold War
WW2 Battles
Russian Revolution
Hitler
WW2
100
What is the Iron Curtain?
100
Japanese suicide fighter pilots
What are kamikazes?
100
A communist party led by Lenin who overthrew the czar in 1917.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
100
A book written by Hitler that stated:
•Aryans were the master race
•Germany should invade Eastern Europe and Russia
•Jews were to blame for all of Germany’s problems
What is Mein Kampf?
100
Germany, Italy and Japan.
Who are the Axis Powers?
200
A policy drafted by US President Truman aimed at promoting free elections and aid to countries who resisted communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
A battle that marked the end of German advances in the Eastern Front which resulted in over 1 million soldiers dying and 1 million injured.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
200
Stalin’s attempt to do away with all opposition from the Communist party.
What is the Great Purge?
200
Hitler ended economic depression and fought the communists.
What is the MAIN reason why Germans accepted Hitler and the Nazis?
200
A joint declaration signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in 1941 that said ALL nations had the right to free trade and the right to choose their own government
What is the Atlantic Charter?
300
This Chinese leader won the hearts of the Chinese peasants but did not have American support because he was Communist.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
Because Japan wanted to clear the way for a Japanese empire in the Pacific.
What is the MAIN reason why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
300
One political party, one leader
Use of propaganda and terror tactics
Censorship of the press
What is totalitarian rule?
300
Laws that excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and Germans.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
300
Lightning war.
What is “blitzkrieg”?
400
He said, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent.”
Who is Winston Churchill?
400
This battle marked a turning point in the war in the Pacific and after this battle the Allies began attacking Japanese-held areas.
What is the Battle of Midway?
400
What is Socialist Realism?
400
In order to avoid a war in Europe, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain advised this policy towards Hitler when he demanded the Sudetenland.
What is appeasement?
400
•It would save 500,000 US troops
•It would end the war more quickly
•The US had already spent millions of dollars on the Manhattan Project
What are the reasons for dropping the Atomic bomb on Japan?
500
Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania,Bulgaria
What are the Soviet Satellite Nations?
500
During this battle, the British used radar, the enigma code-breaking machine and RAF planes which resulted in the defeat of Hitler’s attempted bombing campaign.
What is the Battle of Britain?
500
Stalin's plan to dictate what is GROWN for the benefit of the Soviet Union.
What is a collective farm?
500
The meeting called by Benito Mussolini to resolve the crisis over the Sudetenland.
What is The Munich Conference?
500
General Douglas MacArthur used this strategy in which the US would attack the lesser defended islands closer to Japan first.
What is “island hopping”?