Interwar Period
Terms & Events
Dictators
U.S. Leaders
Major Battles
100
Germany experienced a great deal of inflation because it printed a lot of money to pay ______ for WWI
Reparations
100
The surprise Japanese attack that drew the U.S. into the war
Pearl Harbor
100
Replaced Vladimir Lenin as the leader of the USSR
Joseph Stalin
100
1st U.S. President of WWII
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
100
1945: This picture was taken after the Battle of ___
Iwo Jima
200
Hitler blamed ___________ for the economic problems Germany faced and its defeat in WWI
Jews
200
An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
Blitzkrieg
200
Founded the Fascist Party
Benito Mussolini
200
U.S. President who ordered the drop of the atomic bombs
Harry Truman
200
1940: during four months the German Luftwaffe carried out attacks on British airfields, radar stations, and aircraft factories, and bombed British cities, too.
Battle of Britain
300
The _________ were lists of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism
Five Year Plans
300
The Iron Pact was made between ____ and ____
Germany & Italy
300
Responsible for the Great Purge
Joseph Stalin
300
U.S. Commander who oversaw Japanese rehabilitation
Douglass MacArthur
300
1944: The largest amphibious operation in history involved more than 5,000 ships landing Allied troops on a heavily-defended 50-mile stretch of Normandy coastline, while thousands more took part in an airborne assault.
D-Day
400
Worldwide depression occurred in the 19___'s and 19___'s
1920s and 1930s
400
Neville Chamberlain had a policy of _______ towards Adolf Hitler pre-WWII
Appeasement
400
Selected as Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938
Adolf Hitler
400
The U.S. Allied Commander in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
400
1942: a catastrophic defeat from which the Imperial Japanese Navy never fully recovered. Much of the credit goes to the codebreakers who revealed the Japanese plan to ambush U.S. forces in time for the Allies to plan a counter-ambush.
Battle of Midway
500
Italy invaded ______ in 1935
Ethiopia
500
The imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects".
Internment
500
Executed as a war criminal in December 1948
Hideki Tojo
500
Only career officer in the United States Army to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize; Secretary of Defense
George Marshall
500
1942: The largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city now named Volgograd
Battle of Stalingrad