Good to Bad Times
Fab Vocab!
World War II
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The Aftermath
100
During the 1930s, what affected the economies of most countries around the world?
What is the Great Depression?
100
Great Britian, Soviet Union, China, and the United States
What are the Allies?
100
What was the leading cause of World War II?
What is Hitler's effort to conquer Europe for Germany?
100
The ______ took away many democratic freedoms in Germany.
What are the Nazis?
100
The Allied victory in World War II put an end to which terrible practice?
What is placing Jews in concentration camps?
200
What is the most important concern of a fascist government?
What is the nation?
200
preserving peace by meeting the demands of an aggressor
What is appeasement?
200
Why did Hitler abandon the idea of capturing Great Britain?
What is He realized his forces could not defeat the Royal Air Force?
200
In the polictical system called ______________, the leader has total control over the government and industry.
What is fascism?
200
How did U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt hope to create a new and better world after World War II?
What is forming an international peacekeeping organization (United Nations)?
300
Which two European countries were led by fascist governments during the 1930s?
What are Germany and Italy?
300
Germany, Italy, and Japan
What are the Axis Powers?
300
Which event in June 1944 is rememebered as history's largest invasion by sea?
What is D-Day (Omaha Beach, Normandy, France)?
300
The Nazis spread new ideas rapidly through the use of _______________.
What is propaganda?
300
Why did the Marshall Plan provide no help to the countries of Eastern Europe?
What is Stalin would not allow Eastern Europe to accept help from America?
400
Why did fascist dictators rise to power in some countries in the 1930s?
What is promised to end hard times?
400
a place that imprisoned people of a particular ethnic group or for their polictical or religious beliefs
What are concentration camps?
400
Name the 3 countries Hitler invaded prior to World War II.
What are Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia?
400
Under Stalin's rule, Russian farmers worked on the land of a _______________ every day.
What is a collective?
400
People who fleed their homes because of the threat of being killed during the war.
What are refugees?
500
Why did France and Great Britian make little effort to stop Hitler's actions during the 1930s?
What is feared another war?
500
Japanese pilots who flew their airplanes directly into enemy warships
What are kamikazes?
500
Why did the Japanese emperor tell his government to surrender in 1945?
What is atomic bombs had devastated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
The World War II Allies created a __________ to guide the actions of teh United Nations.
What is a charter?
500
How do we know the story of Anne Frank, a victim of the Holocaust?
What is she kept a diary while she and her family were in hiding?
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