Causes
He was the communist leader of Russia, which was also known then as the Soviet Union
What is Josph Stalin
The name of the empire that Hitler was building
What is the Third Reich?
This conference was held in 1938 with Germany, Italy, Britain and France. It settled on a policy of appeasement with Hitler
What is The Munich Conference
What day "shall live in infamy" for marking the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What is December 7th
FDR gave a speech in 1941 alluding to the dangers of Fascism and America's prosperity. What was it called?
What is The 4 Freedoms
Extreme pride in one’s nationality or country
What is Nationalism
The Fascist dictator of Italy during WW2
What is Benito Mussolini
Also called Lightning attack...the German method of attacking quickly and disorganizing their opponent to lead to a quick victory!
What is Blitzkreig
The name of the type of attacks that were suicide missions by the Japanese.
What is Kamikaze
The first city America dropped an Atomic bomb on.
What is Hiroshima?
a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
What is Fascism
The Japanese wanted their land for oil and raw materials
What is China's land and/or Asia
Allied amphibious invasion of Normandy
What is D-Day
The name of the important battle that got the US within striking distance of Japanese Islands.
What is Iwo Jima?
VJ day stands for this?
What is Victory in Japan?
A Totalitarian Dictator can be described as having total control of what?
What is society.
This country refused to sell Japan, oil and other raw materials
What is America? What is USA?
Battle where the Germany army was defeated in Russia's winter conditions and turned the tide of the war
What is battle of Stalingrad?
This was the US strategy for the war in the Pacific in which heavily defended islands would be jumped over for less defended or more strategic ones
What is Island Hopping?
One reason to drop the bomb was to gain the upper hand with which country in post war negotiations.
What is Soviet Union, or Russia
Another name for German Fascism
What is Nazism
France and Britain's policy of giving in to Hitler's demands to avoid a conflict
(Mr. Dewey's parking spot incident)
What is Appeasement
The three countries that were called the Axis powers during WW2.
What is Germany, Italy and Japan?
After Iwo Jima, this was the other option for finishing off Japan that could cost up to one million American lives
What is an invasion of Japan?
Who was the Supreme Commander of the US forces?
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower