Pre-World War II
A policy by Great Britain, in particular, that desired a lasting peace by giving the Germans what they wanted.
What is appeasement?
The nations that made up the Axis Powers.
What were Italy, Germany and Japan?
The nations that made up the Allied Powers?
What were US, USSR, and UK?
United States President.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
German Fuhrer.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
An ineffectual body that was toothless and unable to enforce their judgements and stop aggression in Europe and Asia.
What was the League of Nations?
A tactic of quick air strikes and powerful armored attacks used by Germany.
What was blitzkrieg?
Shortly after Japan invaded China, they attacked this city and committed horrible war atrocities.
What was Nanking?
United Kingdom Prime Minister.
Who was Winston Churchill?
Japanese Emperor.
Who was Hirohito?
This was an example of a pogrom in Germany; translates as the 'Night of Broken Glass'.
What was kristallnacht?
A system of government that believes that the strength of a country rests on unity and weeding out any force that thinks or acts differently.
What is fascism?
A strategy of using suicide airplane attacks by the Japanese.
What is kamikaze?
Union of Soviet Socialists Republics Chairman.
Who was Josef Stalin?
Italian Il Duce.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
The policy of selling weapons and supplies to the Allies by the United States.
What was Lend-Lease?
Official code name for the invasion at Normandy in 1944 by the Allies.
What was Operation Overlord?
The codename for America's top secret project to build an atomic weapon.
What was The Manhattan Project?
American General in charge of D-Day.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
French General.
Who was Charles de Gaulle?
An agreement between the US and UK that included a vision for the world after war.
What was the Atlantic Charter?
Three factors that led to German failure in their invasion of the USSR.
What was winter conditions, strong resistance and American assistance from Lend-Lease?
Japan's vision for a bloc of Asian nations free of Western influence was called this.
What was the Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere?
German General made famous in North Africa.
Who was Erwin Rommel?*
Japanese Admiral.
Who was Isoruku Yamamoto?