America and the World
Political system led by a dictator who believed in strong nationalism, was anti-communist, and racist.
Fascism
To make concessions in exchange for peace.
Appeasement
Laws which took citizenship away from German Jews and banned marriages between Jews and Germans.
Japan attacked this U.S. naval base in Hawaii which brought the United States into World War II?
Pearl Harbor
Who is the superintendent for the Princeton School District?
Ben Barton
He was responsible for the deaths of millions of Ukrainians, a result of a man-made famine. He destroyed all opposition to him by send his political opponents to gulags in Siberia.
Joseph Stalin
Also known as "Lightning War"
Blitzkrieg
Name of Hitler's secret police.
Gestapo
Agreement which committed the United States and Great Britain to a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, free trade, etc.
Atlantic Charter
What was the name of the land between the trenches in World War I called?
No Man's Land
What was the name of Hitler's book in which he stated his beliefs about German unification, Jews, etc.
Mein Kampf
A series of concrete bunkers and fortifications built by France to prevent a German invasion.
Maginot Line
"Night of the Broken Glass" was also known as what?
Kristallnacht
Act which allowed the United States to lend or lease arms to country considered vital to the defense of the United States.
Lend-Lease Act
What was the name of a rebellious woman of the 1920s?
Flapper
Japan, Germany and Italy were known as this.
Axis Powers
What was the name of the city in France where the world's largest evacuation took place?
Dunkirk
Name of a camp where Jews and other prisoners worked as slaves until they dropped dead due to exhaustion.
Isolationist group opposed to any American intervention into World War II.
America First Committee
Daily Double: What was the name of the 1925 court case over whether or not the theory of evolution should be taught in high schools?
The Monkey-Scopes Trial
What territory in China was invaded by Japan in order to gain natural resources, starting a war between China and Japan?
Manchuria
Daily Double: What kind of battle was the Battle of Britain?
A. Naval battle
B. Aerial battle
C. Tank battle
Aerial battle
Name of the ship filled with German Jews that was prevented from docking in the United States and therefore had to return back to Europe where 2/3 of the Jews were eventually killed.
St. Louis
The United States provided what Axis country with strategic materials such as oil, scrap metal, and steel?
Japan
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC