Totalitarian dictator of Germany beginning in 1933.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
This political movement was strongly nationalistic, emphasized solidarity and team spirit, de-emphasized individual rights, believed in a superior Aryan race, and strongly persecuted Jews.
What is Nazism?
100
Hitler began to violate the Treaty of Versailles in 1935 in these ways.
What is rebuild the army, cease reparations payments, begin to reoccupy and add lost territory.
100
The majority of Americans in the 1930s favored this foreign policy position as dictatorships and militarism were emerging throughout the world, and the Nye Committee report on weapons profits only encouraged this position further.
What is isolationism?
100
This was FDR's preferred method of punishing Japanese aggression in the 1930s.
What are economic embargoes on strategic materials?
200
Fascist Dictator of Italy, beginning in the early 1920s.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
200
This aggressively nationalist and militarist movement was strongly anti-communist and emphasized national solidarity with a strong dictator leading the nation.
What is fascism?
200
This German-speaking nation was added to Germany in 1938, in violation of Versailles.
What is Austria? (Anschluss)
200
This US law made it illegal for American arms manufacturers to sell weapons to any country at war.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1935?
200
Japan responded to FDR's methods by joining this alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What are the Axis Powers?
300
Communist dictator of Russia beginning in mid 1920s
Who is Josef Stalin?
300
This political philosophy abolished private property, had one-party political rule with no toleration for political dissent, trampled on individual rights and liberties, and criticized the profit motive as an incentive for work.
What is communism?
300
The Munich Conference of 1938 centered around Hitler's demands for this piece of Czechoslovakia.
What is the Sudetenland?
300
FDR began the campaign change American attitudes toward the rise of aggressive dictatorships with this 1937 speech, in which he likened the spread of aggressors to a disease.
What is the Quarantine Speech?
300
The Japanese brought the US into the war by bombing naval and air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on this date.
What is December 7th, 1941?
400
Japan's Minister of War and the real mastermind behind Japan's military expansion in the 1930s and 1940s.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
400
These two political movements were both totalitarian yet bitterly opposed to one another.
What is fascism vs. communism?
400
World War II officially began on this date, the day when Hitler invaded Poland.
What is September 1, 1939?
400
This US law was an important revision that enabled the US to sell arms to Britain and other nations on a "cash-and-carry" basis.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1939?
400
The US was very fortunate that these naval ships were not at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked.
What are aircraft carriers?
500
The rise of antidemocratic dictators can be directly linked to these two things.
What is the Treaty of Versailles and the worldwide economic depression?
500
Japan was motivated to expand its territory by military aggression throughout East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands in search of these.
What are natural resources?
500
This British Prime Minister led the world and his nation in the fight against Hitler in 1940 after France's surrender. He promised never to surrender and inspired his nation during the Battle of Britain.
Who is Winston Churchill?
500
This law allowed the US to give any nation fighting aggressors weapons and supplies so long as such a nation promised to pay it back "somehow, sometime." It was a drastic step toward involvement in the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
500
The Nazis persecuted all these groups during the Holocaust (at least four).
What are political opponents, the disabled, homosexuals, Slavs, Gypsies (Roma), and Jews.