World War II Causes
The 3 countries in the Axis Powers
What are Japan, Germany, and Italy?
Battle in France that killed thousands of soldiers at a beach
What is the Battle of Normandy (D-Day)?
America joined World War II after this event.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The 2 Japanese cities where the United States dropped atomic bombs.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The most well known concentration camp.
What is Auschwitz?
Giving into aggression in order to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
FDR met with this leader in secret after the attack on Pearl Harbor to determine a gameplan for the war. They decided that Europe would be first.
Who was Winston Churchill?
Presidents during World War II
Who are Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), and Harry S. Truman?
Hitler’s famous strategy for attacking other countries.
What is Blitzkrieg?
The Holocaust killed this many Jews
What is 6 Million?
September 1, 1939- Hitler invades this country, officially beginning WWII.
What is Poland?
The US loaned goods to the Allies.
What is Lend-Lease?
Character used to recruit women into the workforce.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
International organization that replaced the League of Nations.
What is the United Nations?
This was the night of the broken glass.
What is Kristallnacht?
The reason Appeasement was chosen in Munich.
What was to avoid another war?
Date of the attack on Pearl Harbor
What is December 7, 1941?
Japanese Americans were put into what because we thought they might be spies?
What is Internment Camps?
What was the Allied forces strategy to defeat Japan?
What is island hopping?
Jewish girl who hid with her family from the Nazis for two years. She later became famous for the diary that she wrote.
Who is Anne Frank?
The name for the type of government found in Italy and Germany during WWII.
What is Fascism?
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, these 2 countries declared war on the United States.
What are Germany and Italy?
Americans were encouraged to plant these.
What are Victory Gardens?
This was the plan to build the Atomic Bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The two words Hitler used to describe his plan to wipe out all Jews from Europe
What is the Final Solution?
The Neutrality Acts forbid the US to sell thses to warring nations.
What were arms and ammunition?
The reason given by President Truman fo using the atomic bomb on Japan.
What was to save American lives?
What did Executive Order 9066 do?
What is sent Japanese-Americans to Internment camps?
This battle was the turning point of the war in Europe.
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
These put war criminals on trial following WWII.
What were the Nuremberg Trials?