Vocabulary
Leaders
WW II Impacts
Events
100
A nation in which a single party controls the government and every aspect of people's lives.
What is a totalitarian state?
100
The leader of Germany.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
American Naval base that was bombed by Japan that led the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
A day that will live in Infamy.
What is December 7, 1941?
200
A strategy in which American forces would capture some Japanese-held islands and go around others.
What is island hopping.
200
The sole dictator of the Soviet Union.
Who is Josef Stalin?
200
On this day more than 155,000 American, British, and Canadian troops crossed the English channel.
What is D-Day?
200
On April 12, 1945, one of America's greatest leaders died of a heart attack.
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
300
Political system based on militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state and its leader.
What is fascism?
300
The Italian leader during World War II.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
300
The year the Japanese seized Manchuria in northeastern China.
What is 1931?
300
The two Japanese cities that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on.
What is Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
400
A warlike act by one country against another without cause.
What is aggression?
400
The leader who believed that his country could take on the German forces single-handedly.
Who is Winston Churchill?
400
When Germany invaded Poland.
What is 1939?
500
The act of setting limits on the amount of scarce goods people can buy.
What is rationing?
500
The emporer of Ethiopia.
Who is Haile Selassie?
500
Murder of 12 million people, including the murders of 6 million Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
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