WWII People
Dictator who used violence, brute force, and deception in an attempt to overthrow the German government in 1923.
Adolf Hitler
Which area did Germany set in motion the final steps to war by invading?
Poland
"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor, they will have war."
Winston Churchil
Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:00 A.M
Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
Giving into demands to keep the peace.
Appeasement
This emperor of Japan invaded lands in China and throughout Eastern Asia to build a Japanese empire.
Hirohito
A region in Western Germany along the borders of France and Belgium.
Rhineland
"A day which will live in infamy."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
One of the most horrific events in the history of the world.
The Holocaust
Helping any nation whose defense was essential to the United States.
Lend-Lease Act
This dictator's real name was Ioseb Dzhugashvili.
Joseph Stalin
An area of eastern Czechoslovakia heavily populated by Germans.
Sudetenland
Mein Kampf, "My Struggle."
Hitler's autobiography
By the start of 1941, 30,000 were killed, 120,000 were injured, and there were 1500 fires in London alone.
Battle of Britain
Gangs of Fascist thugs
Black Shirts
Dictator who believed that Italy had been shortchanged in the WWI settlements.
Benito Mussolini
A mineral-rich region in northern China.
Manchuria
"The country is nothing without conquest."
Benito Mussolini
Japanese troops sacked the city, massacred 300,000 Chinese, and raped thousands of women.
Raping of Nanjing
Controls every aspect of life for its citizens
Totalitarian government
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1940?
Winston Churchill
A U.S. naval base in Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor
"arsenal of democracy"
Used to describe the U.S. providing weapons needed to protect democracies.
September 1938
Representatives from Germany, France, and England met at the Munich Conference.
This policy is one in which only non-military goods are sold to countries at war, and only if the country picks up the goods themselves.
Cash and Carry