Individuals
Who was the Italian Dictator who created the Fascist Party? He believed in having full power in order to run the country.
Benito Mussolini? (or Who was Mussolini?)
What country did Hitler invade on September 10, 1939?
Poland
What was the name of the German strategy of attack? It involved bombers, tanks, machine gun fire, and attack from the air?
Blitzkrieg, also known as "lightning war"
Under this act, the United States government would provide weapons to any country considered important to American security.
What is Lend-Lease Act?
What was the strategy of "Island Hopping?"
Capturing critical islands in the Pacific to establish air and naval bases
Who took over the Soviet Union in 1927?
Joseph Stalin
What countries declared war on Germany when Hitler refused their demands?
France and Britain
What other country attacked Poland from the East in 1939?
The Soviet Union
Roosevelt declared that America would be what in their effort to help England in the war?
An "Arsenal of Democracy"
Women were allowed to join the military during the war. What do we call the branches of the Army and Navy where they served?
WACS and WAVES
Who became chancellor of Germany in 1933. He called himself, "Der Fuhrer."
Adolf Hitler
Who did Hitler regard as an "inferior race?" He believed that they were preventing Germany from reaching her potential as a world power.
The Jews
Hitler invaded which country in June of 1941?
The Soviet Union
The Neutrality Act of 1937 adopted what policy toward supplying warring nations with ammunition?
"Cash and Carry"
What happened to Adolf Hitler?
He committed suicide in an underground bunker
Who was the leader of the Nationalist Chinese Government?
Chiang Kai-Shek
What country did Japan invade in 1931, using the philosophy of "Samurai" to justify conquering other nations.
Manuchuria
What was the "Panay Incident?"
A US gunboat attacked by the Japanese on teh Yangtze River in China
The automobile industry was converted to produce what?
Tanks, airplanes, trucks, and artillery
What did the term "GI" stand for?
Government Issue
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain who wanted to appease Hitler by signing the Munich Pact, stating that it would bring "peace in our time."
Neville Chamberlain
What was the land that Chamberlain and Daladier gave to Germany following a policy of appeasement? In return, Hitler agreed not to take over any other territories.
The Sudetenland
Who was the German Field Marshall in North Africa known as the "Desert Fox?"
Erwin Rommel
Treblinka and Auschwitz were the names of two of the Nazis most infamous what?
Concentration camps
Who made the famous statement to the Filipinos when he left in 1942, "I shall return!"
Douglas MacArthur