WWI
The year WWI began
What is 1914?
The year Hitler invaded Poland
What is 1939?
The president when the US entered WWII.
Who is Franklin Delano Rooevelt?
December 7, 1941
What date did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
Albert Einstein wrote FDR and told him the Nazis had the technology to develop the atom bomb so we could protect ourselves.
What scientist asked the President to develop the atom bomb and why?
Poland, Albania, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, East Germany
What countries were communist at the end of the war?
The year the United States entered WWI
What is 1917?
Night of Broken Glass–the 1st act of violence against the Jews.
What is Kristallnacht?
The leader of Germany.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
Japan was upset with the US for cutting of their resources
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
Fat Man & Little Boy
What were the names of the 2 atom bombs dropped on Japan?
A non-physical boundary indicating the rivalry between allied powers and the Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The Treaty of Versailles
What is the the peace treaty to end WWI?
Jews rounded up in a tiny, rundown living space where they would be isolated.
What are ghettos?
I kept England from being invaded by Germany
Who is Winston Churchill?
Suspicion of disloyalty
Why were Japanese-Americans relocated or interned?
Nuclear Fission
How does the atom bomb work?
Winston Curchill
The problems with the Treaty
What are it placed too much blame on Germany, it took land and resources from them, and the allies were in disagreement with its terms?
The plan to exterminate all Jews
What was the Final Solution?
A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace
What is a demagogue?
Thailand, Philippines, Mongolia, Russia, China, Indonesia
What are the countries invaded by Japan?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What were the 2 cities in Japan that were hit with the atom bombs?
The iron curtain existed because the Soviet Union tried to block itself from the influence of the West.
Why was there an Iron Curtain?
A type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches
What is Trench warfare?
Blitzkrieg
What new strategy did Hitler use when invading European countries?
He was hung upside down.
What happened to Mussolini when he was captured?
Douglas MacArthur
Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific?
Harry S. Truman
What US president decided to drop the atom bomb on Japan?
US sponsored program designed to rehab economies of 17 countries
What is the Marshall Plan?