Key Terms
The type of pact that Germany signed with the Soviet Union where they agreed not to attack each other
Non-Aggression
Two atomic bombs were dropped in August of 1945
Japan
When he returned from the Munich Conference with Hitler in 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain claimed that he had achieved "___________ for our time."
Peace
World War II involved how many different "theaters?"
Two- North Africa/Europe and the Pacific
What are the three colors of the Mexican flag?
Red, White, and Green
To cut off the supply of a trade good to a particular country
Embargo
The Rhineland, a major industrial zone, was re-occupied in 1936
Germany
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, shortly after he became Prime Minister: "we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans...we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall ________ __________.”
Never Surrender
A major power joined the Allies against Hitler when the German army violated a previous agreement and launched a surprise invasion of this country in the summer of 1941
The Soviet Union
What is the mascot for the University of Northern Colorado?
Bears
A type of government that focuses on complete control of all aspect of society, is led by a single, all-powerful ruler, and makes promises to restore the nation to its former greatness.
Fascism
Months of terror bombing known as the Blitz occurred in 1940-1941
Great Britain
Elie Wiesel, in reflecting on his survival of the Holocaust:
"The opposite of love is not hate, its ___________"
Indifference
This key battle in the winter of 1941 marked the end of German expansion in Europe
The Battle of Stalingrad
What is the ratio of white stripes to red stripes on the United States flag?
6:7
A policy of giving in to the demands of an aggressive power to avoid larger conflict
Appeasement
German and Soviet armies invaded simultaneously in 1939, marking the official start of WWII.
Poland
Robert Oppenheimer, just after the successful Trinity Test of the atomic bomb:
"Now I am become death, the _____ _____ _____"
Destroyer of Worlds
This strategy allowed the United States to focus their invasions on the most strategic of the Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while avoiding and isolating others.
Leap-frogging or Island Hopping
What was the name of Byzantine Emperor Justinian's wife?
Theodora
Germany's new military strategy in World War II, German for "Lightening War"
Blitzkrieg
was the Sudetenland, a region rich in natural resources and home to many German people, before it was given over to Germany at the Munich Conference in 1938.
Czechoslovakia
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in an address to the U.S. Congress:
"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in ____________"
Infamy
This battle in the Pacific resulted in the loss of four Japanese aircraft carriers and swung momentum against Japanese expansion.
The Battle of Midway
Who painted The Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh