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When did Japan attack Pear Harbor?
December 7, 1941
What was the largest amphibious assault in history?
Operation Overlord (aka D-Day) 6 June 1944
Which president asked congress to declare war on Japan?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What was the largest and deadliest single battle fought by U.S. troops in WW II?
The Battle of the Bulge
What two words appear on Brazilian flag?
Order and Progress
When did the Operation Barbarossa start?
In June 1941
What was the title of a book that Hitler wrote in 1923?
Mein Kampf (my struggle)
Who supported Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War?
Hitler and Mussolini
What brought the U.S out of the Great Depression?
WW II
When was the neocolonial era in Latin America?
1880–1930
When did German army was forced to surrender to Russian forces after the battle of Stalingrad?
February, 1943
What was “Operation Sea Lion”?
the German invasion of the British Isles
Who was the leader of Chinese communists that fought the Nationalists?
Mao Zedong
What happened at Babi Yar?
Jewish men were forced to dig mass pits into which they and their families were herded naked and shot by Einsatzgruppen and Ukrainian collaborators.
Who benefited the most from the export boom in Latin America?
City dwellers, large landowners
When did Japan launch a full-scale invasion of China?
July 7, 1937
Explain Kristallnacht (“the Night of Broken Glass.)
German mobs murdered dozens of Jews, publicly humiliated thousands, and burned businesses and synagogues. November 9-10, 1938
Who was the leader of the Chinese Kuomintang that fought Chinese communists?
Chiang Kai-shek
In February 1937, why did the Italians went on a three-day killing spree in Ethiopia that killed at least 20,000 people?
to exact vengeance on the Ethiopians in response to an attempted assassination on the new Italian viceroy in the capital city, Addis Ababa.
During the Great Export Boom in Latin America, what did Mexico mostly export?
silver, sugar, coffee, and fibers
What year did U.S. dissolve its trade treaties with Japan?
In 1939
When the Americans and Filipino soldiers surrendered to the Japanese, the prisoners were marched eighty miles to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp without food, water, or rest. Ten thousand died. This is known as…
the Bataan Death March.
Who was the leader of the Manhattan Project?
Robert Oppenheimer
This campaign called on African Americans to fight and win two wars: the war against Nazism and fascism abroad and the war against racial inequality at home.
“Double V” campaign
What is a “Banana Republics”?
a politically unstable country that relies heavily on the export of a single agricultural product, particularly bananas, and is often controlled by foreign corporations.