Leaders during
the war
the war
Who was the leader of the Nazis?
Adolf Hitler
What was the Power that included Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Axis Powers
What was the political rivalry that stops short of the actual war?
Cold War
In late August ______ Joseph Stalin signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which incited a crazy amount of worry in London and Paris.
1939
What was the German empire created by Hitler?
Third Reich
Who was the founder of Italian Fascism?
(HINT: Named himself dictator under the tile IL DUCE meaning the leader)
Mussolini
What was the Power that included Great Britain, France, The Soviet Union, The U.S., and China?
Allied Powers
What were the bombs code names that were dropped on Japan?
Fat Man and Little Boy
World War II started on September ____, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.
1
____________________ served as the prime minister of England. He led the European nations with a policy to avoid war by means of appeasement.
Neville Chamberlain
Who was the Spanish general, overthrew the republican government and imposed a fascist dictatorship?
Francisco Franco
T/F
The start of World War II was when Poland invaded Germany.
False
What was the invasion of the beaches of Normandy and France?
D-day
The Japanese had taken a progressively more dominant role in Manchuria. In ______ someone destroyed a section of railroad in Manchuria controlled by the Japanese.
1931
In _______ President Roosevelt signed the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944.
1944
Who was the Emperor of Japan during World War II?
Hirohito
T/F
The Allied Powers, or the US were the ones who used atomic Bombs.
True
What is the destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war?
Holocaust
When war erupted in _____ with the German invasion of Poland, Japan expanded into Southeast Asia.
1939
WWII ended _________ dominance of the world.
Europe's
Who played a central role in expanding the power in Japan and supporting Japanese conquest?
Hideki Tojo
T/F
The Axis Powers, which included Great Britain bombed Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941.
False
In the year of _______, Germany had tried to conquer Denmark and Norway.
1940
In _____ Mussolini sent a well equipped, modern army into Ethiopia and quickly conquered this poor African county.
1935
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the ________ naval base and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
American