World War II 1
What was the Final Solution?
It was the plan to fix the problems in Germany with Jews, foreigners, gypsies, the mentially ill, and homosexuals.
What were the men called who fought against the Japanese in China?
Flying Tigers
What were the African American Airforce men called that fought in WWII?
Tuskegee Airmen
Name four countries that made up the allies?
What is England, France, USSR(aka...Soviet Union,Russia) U.S.
African American veteran of WWII; received Medal of Honor
Who is Vernon Baker?
What country was invaded, which officially started WWII?
German war strategy that used speed, quickness, and armor.
What is Blitzkrieg?
Who was the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union during World War II
What is Joseph Stalin
What was it called when citizens received coupons in order to reduce the amount of items consumed during a time of war?
Rationing
Which three countries made up the Axis Powers
What is Germany, Japan, Italy
A new strategic weapon developed at Los Alamos,New Mexico;used to quickly end WWII;Japan surrendered after bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; resulted in arms race with Soviets.
What is the Atomic Bomb?
What was the policy called of liberating one island at a time?
Island Hopping
What city was the first city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it?
What is Hiroshima?
What was the forced march of American POWs in the PHilippines during WWII called?
Batan Death March
This U.S. president could not come to England's aid directly due to Neutrality Acts passed by Congress several years earlier. These Acts were slowly relaxed.
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
What was Eugenics and how is it related to the Holocaust?
Eugenics was a pseudo-scientific belief that the human race could be improved by breeding people with the most desirable genes. Hitler believed he could create a master race by practicing this.
Took on new roles to support war effort;joined nurse cadets and worked in factories to keep up production
What is Women?
This was the location of the Japanese attack against the United States;retaliation for trade embargo which resulted in the U.S. entering WWII.
What was Pearl Harbor?
Navajo Code Talkers
What were the series of trials that put Germans on trial for crimes against peace and crimes against humanity called?
Nuremberg Trials
Support war effort by increasing food supply
What is Victory Gardens?
Who was the military dictator of Japan during WW2?
Who was Tojo
economic and political interdependence of nations; stop spread of totalitarian governments
What is Justification of war?
Mussolini was an example of a new type of political ideology. What was it called?
What is Facism
This country was isolationist until its attack in 1941.
What is the United States?
What was the policy Britain and France used to avoid war with Germany?
Appeasement
The name given to the genocide or systematic extermination of all European Jews.
What was the Holocaust?
This order forced Japanese Americans from their homes, give up their businesses, and most of their possessions. It also forced them into Internment Camps within the interior of the United States.
Executive Order 9066
created after WWII; result of baby boom and increased demand for housing
What is Suburb?