World War II 1
How was dictator of Italy?
How was Benito Mussolini
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 major Allied Powers?
What is England, France, Soviet Union, and U.S.
Who was the General in charge of the European Theatre and the D-Day invasion?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
What country was invaded, which officially started WWII in Europe?
What is Poland
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 in the Pacific?
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 by the Japanese?
Batan Death March
U.S. president during the majority of World War II
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
The American secret plan to create a nuclear bomb before the Germans.
The Manhattan Project
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 in their own front and backyard by growing it themselves.
What is Victory Gardens?
Who was dictator of Germany?
Who was Adolph Hitler
economic and political interdependence of nations; stop spread of totalitarian governments
What is Justification of war?
Mussolini was a dictator 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
United States victory and turning point in the Pacific Theatre where the Navy sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.
What is the Battle of Midway?