Axis Powers
Allied Forces
Key Terms
Japan builds an Empire
During WWII.
100

Adolf Hitler was the dictator of this European country.

What is Germany?

100

This major country was the last to join the WWII.

What is the United States?

100
This was a form of fascism shaped by Hitler's ideas of German nationalism and racial superiority. 

What is Nazism?

100

The Japanese army seized this Chinese province to set up a puppet state which is now as this.

What is the Manchurian Incident?

100

This attack led the Untied States into WWII.

What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

200

Benito Mussolini was the dictator of this European Country.

What is Italy?

200

The following countries make up the Allied Forces. 

What is Great Britain, France, Russia, and the United States?

200

This is a policy of giving your competitor their demands to keep the peace.

What is appeasement?

200

In 1941 Japan allied itself with Italy and Germany with this signing of this agreement.

What is the Tripartite Pact?

200

The United States placed trade embargo on Japan as a way to ______________. 

What is limit Japans army ability to wage war?

300

This type of government was set up in Germany after WWI.

What is democracy?

300

Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of this country.

What is Great Britain?

300

This military tactic translated means "lightning war", included a fast, concentrated air and land attack that took the enemy by surprise. 

What is blitzkrieg?

300

According to Japan what was the purpose of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?

To liberate Asia from European colonizers.

300

These two tactics were used by the Allies to weaken Germany. 

What is saturation bombing and strategic bombing?

400

This Asian Country joined the Axis Powers.

What is Japan?

400

This American law helped the Allies buy goods and ammunition from the United States 

What is the Neutrality Act of 1939?

400

The political term of removing enemies and undesirable individuals from power.

What is purge?

400

This was the real goal of Japans Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

What is Japan needed the regions natural resources to carry on the war with China. 

400
Internment camps were illegal camps used to imprison people of this particular ethnic background as a result of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

What is Japanese-Americans?

500

Why did many Germans support Hitler and Nazism in the early 1930s. 

At the onset of the Great Depression, Hitler and the Nazis promised to stabilized the country, rebuild the economy, and restore the empire that had been lost. Through this promises, he gained the support of many Germans.

500

In early 1941 Congress approved this act that gave the President the power to sell, give or lease weapons to protect the United States. 

What is the Lend-Lease Act.

500

This policy in 1937 permitted the trade with fighting nations in nonmilitary goods, as long as those nations paid in cash and transported the cargo themselves.

What is cash and carry?

500

This is the reason why Japan was unable to win the war in China.

What is despite Japanese troops controlling the cities, Mao Zedong's Chinese guerillas dominated the countryside causing a stalemate. 

500

These group of people worked in the factories to build war munitions and vehicles during WWII.

What is women.

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