Terms to Know
Pre-WW II Events
People to Know
Major Battles
Important Events
100
This policy states that a country should not be involved in the affairs of other countries in order to avoid foreign entanglements.
What is isolationism?
100
Hitler violated this treaty when he created a private army and increased the German military above the 100,000 person limit.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
100
He was the totalitarian dictator of Russia during World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
100
At this major battle, France fell to the Germany.
What is the Battle of France?
100
Japanese Americans were forced into these after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
What are internment camps?
200
This is a political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied
What is fascism?
200
The League of Nations did nothing when the German army invaded this buffer zone between France and Germany.
What is the Rhineland?
200
He was fascist leader of Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
200
Britain won this major battle.
What is the Battle of Britain.
200
This was a systematic attempt to rid all of Europe of people of Jewish descent.
What was the Holocaust?
300
This is a deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
What is genocide?
300
Hitler created an alliance and annexed this country just before the start of World War II.
What is Austria?
300
He spoke these words: "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..."
Who is Winston Churchill?
300
Japan seized this region of China for its natural resources.
What is was the Invasion of Manchuria?
300
This event is considered the first battle of World War II.
What is the Blitzkrieg of Poland?
400
This military strategy calls for violent surprise offensive by air forces and ground forces.
What is a blitzkrieg (lightning war)?
400
In order to find more "lebensraum", Hitler threatened to invade this area of Czechoslovakia because its people had German heritage.
What is the Sudetenland?
400
He was the president who approved the top-secret program known as the "Manhattan Project."
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
400
This invasion of Russia violated the Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and Russia.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
400
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said this day "would live in infamy".
What is Pearl Harbor?
500
This is a policy in leaders give into demands of potentially dangerous nations in the hope of maintaining peace.
What is appeasement?
500
At this conference, Neville Chamberlain and others tried to appease Hitler by agreeing this he could annex a portion of Czechoslovakia.
What is the Munich Conference?
500
He was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and later became the thirty-fourth president of the United States.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
500
This last ditch attempt (by the Germans) at stopping the Allied forces failed.
What is was the Battle of the Bulge?
500
These Japanese pilots would "dive bomb" their planes into Allied ships.
What are kamikazes?
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