Preparation for War
Steps Toward a Second World War
World War II Begins
War in Asia
The War Ends
100
He was the Italian Dictator that created the Fascist Party. He believed in having full power in order to run the country.
Who was Benito Mussolini? (or Who was Mussolini?)
100
Hitler wanted to created to create an empire by ruling other countries. He called it this.
What is the Third Reich?
100
This simple act of German aggression was the beginning of World War II.
What is blitzkrieg?
100
The United States opposed Japan's plan to rule Asia because it went against this American Policy with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
100
Allied troops captured this island in 1943.
What is Sicily?
200
It is a steady rise in prices that made German paper money worthless when the economy fell apart in 1923.
What is inflation?
200
Chamberlain and Daladier chose a policy of appeasement by giving this land to Germany if Hitler promised to not seize any more territory.
What is Sudetenland?
200
This is a system used to locate objects such as planes.
What is radar?
200
This was made up of Japan, Italy, and Germany.
What were the Axis Powers?
200
The attack on Normandy was called this.
What is D-Day?
300
He became chancellor of Germany in 1933. He called German Jews traitors and took away their citizenship.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
300
This is what the murder of millions of Jews in Germany is known as.
What is the Holocaust?
300
When Great Britain, Canada, Australia, the Soviet Union, and other nations joined together to fight Germany, they became known as this.
What were the Allies?
300
When Japan attacked Indochina, the United States froze these.
What are Japanese Assets?
300
The Germans were pushed back in this battle, occurring in December of 1944
What was the Battle of the Bulge?
400
He became the leader of the Fascist government in Spain in 1939, following a three year civil war between Fascist forces and Anti-Fascists.
Who was Francisco Franco?
400
Hitler sought an agreement with this country in order to seize Poland.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
Under this act, the United States government would provide weapons to any country considered important to American security.
What is Lend-Lease Act?
400
On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese air force attacked the American fleet at this location in Hawaii.
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
Allied leaders met at this small town on the Black Sea in the Soviet Union.
What is Yalta?
500
He was criticized for keeping the people of the United States of America aware of the problems in Europe. People thought he wanted to start a war.
Who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
500
Great Britain and this country agreed to go to war to defend Poland from Germany.
What is France?
500
This was the first peacetime law that drafted men into the armed forces.
What is Selective Service Act?
500
After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked and defeated these islands.
What are the Philippine Islands?
500
America dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and this town.
What is Hiroshima?
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