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Aggression
100
What was the main cause of WWII?
What is aggression?
100
The invasion of Normandy to liberate German-controlled France and northern Europe that began on June 6, 1944.
What is DDAY?
100
These were the two theaters of WWII.
What is Europe and Asia?
100
When the Great Depression occurred, Japan was a newly industrialized country still heavily dependent on its export earnings to finance its imports of raw materials and fuels. As a solution, Japan adopted this policy.
What is expansionism?
200
What was Italy mad about?
What is land they were promised but did not receive?
200
Allied troops from both east and west moved into Germany, causing the Germans to surrender on May 7, 1945.
What is VEDay?
200
The United States chose a foreign policy of isolationism, passing a series of acts that prohibited the country from loaning money or selling weapons to countries at war, and thus, hopefully, preventing some of the issues that had led the United States into the Great War.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
200
The Germans used this style of fighting against Poland.
What is blitzkrieg?
200
The Japanese first acted on their policy of expansionism by invading this country in 1931.
What is Manchuria?
300
What paved the way for the rise of totalitarian leaders?
What is the Great Depression?
300
Six days after the dropping of the second atomic bomb, Japan announced its intention to surrender, formally doing so on September 2, 1945.
What is VJDay?
300
Congress amended its isolationist policy of neutrality to allow the United States to sell weapons to the Allies that were paid for with cash and transported on their own ships.
What is cash and carry policy?
300
Mussolini attacked this country in 1935.
What is Ethiopia?
400
What was Germany mad about?
What is the Treaty of Versailles (especially the war guilt clause)?
400
Great Britain and France falsely believed this policy would prevent another world war, however, this lack of a firm hand against aggression allowed Hitler to annex Austria in 1938, directly violating the Treaty of Versailles.
What is appeasement?
400
This allowed Roosevelt to lend or lease weapons and other supplies to countries that were important to the interests of the United States.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
During this battle, the German air force repeatedly bombed a country. The country refused to surrender and Hitler suffered his first loss of the war.
What is the Battle of Britain?
400
The Germans wanted to control the Suez Canal in order to have access to the oil-rich Middle East, so fighting took place in two locations.
What is North Africa and the Balkans?
500
What organization failed to prevent the war?
What is the League of Nations?
500
At this meeting in 1938, Hitler demanded the Sudetenland and western Czechoslovakia.The British and French agreed to this in return for promises that his demands for additional territory would cease.
What is the Munich Conference?
500
These two strategies were used to limit the loss of American soldiers.
What are island-hopping and the atomic bomb?
500
This was Japan's response to the United States placing an oil embargo on them to prevent their aggression.
What is attack on Pearl Harbor?
500
Name two other places Japan invaded.
What is China and Indochina.
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