Rise of Dictators
Rise of Agressors
Fighting Period
Effects
Miscellaneous
100
Who was the fascist leader who rose to power in Italy?
Mussolini
100
What was the policy in which Britain and many other countries followed in order to prevent war with Germany and Italy?
Appeasement
100
What were the two cities in which the US dropped atomic bombs over?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
100
What were the two conferences in which the US, Russia, and Great Britain discussed issues?
Yalta and Potsdam
100
What was the name of the general who led the fascist in Spain?
Francisco Franco
200
What was the name of the book in which Hitler wrote down his beliefs?
Mein Kampf
200
What were the prisons in which Germans kept jews?
Concentration Camps
200
How did American support the fighting effort while they were at home?
They rationed and conserved food supplies
200
What was the plan to rebuild Europe called?
Marshall Plan
200
What was the German term for "lightning war"?
Blitzkrieg
300
What was one Hitler's main beliefs that Germany needs more living space?
lebensraum
300
What was the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan called?
Axis Powers
300
What character encourage woman to work while the husbands were fighting?
Rosie the Riveter
300
Who occupied Germany at the end of WWII?
US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union
300
The name of the huge Jewish Massacre that killed approximately 6 million people?
The Holocaust
400
What is the main difference between Fascism and Communism?
Fascism had no clearly defined theory or program.
400
What was the ten year agreement in which Hitler and Stalin agreed not to fight against each other called?
Nonaggression Pact
400
What event happened on June 6th, 1944 and led to the liberation of Western Europe?
D-Day
400
Who rejoined the workforce after WWII?
Men
400
What was name of the program in which the US was secretly building atomic bombs.
The Manhattan Project
500
What was the first region that Hitler took as an aggression? (This was a direct defiance of the Treaty of Versailles)
Rhineland
500
Who was the emperor of Japan during WWII?
Emperor Hirohito
500
What was the turning point in the war for eastern europe?
The battle of Stalingrad
500
What new peacekeeping organization was established after WWII?
United Nations
500
WWII brought this major crisis in the US to an end.
The Great Depression
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