The Rise of Dictators
who is the Fascist leader who established a dictatorship in Italy
Benito
What Committee investigated allegations that huge profits that arms factories had made during the war and created the impression that these businesses influenced the decision to go to war, causing even more Americans to turn toward isolationism?
The Nye Committee
What German laws took citizenship away from Jewish Germans, banned marriage between Jews and other Germans, barred Jews from holding public office or voting, compelled Jews with German-sounding names to adopt “Jewish” names, banned Jews from practicing law and medicine and from operating businesses.
The Nuremberg Laws
General Author said " I will return", after the fall of what U.S. territory?
The Phillipines
What is the name of the commander of the American forces landing at Omaha and Utah
General Omar Bradley
Who is the Leader of the communist part in the USSR
Joseph Stalin
The name of several laws passed to prevent the U.S. from getting involved in WWII
Neutrality Acts
What was the systematic murder of members of a group with the intent to destroy the existence of the group? Hebrew name Shoah
Holocaust
What major battle was the turning point in the war with Japan?
Battle of Midway
the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
D-Day
Who is the military leader that invaded Manchuria and took control of Japan?
Minister of War Hideki Tōjō
What was the national policy of actively trading with foreign countries to foster peace and prosperity?
Internationalism
on the nights of November 9th and 10th 1938 mobs of Germans Nazis stormed Jewish communities destroying property and killing Jews is called?
Kristallnacht
What was the name of the group used to transmit secret military messages during WWII?
The Navajo Code Talkers
What was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.
Operation Overlord
Who wrote Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”)
Adolf Hitler
What policy allowed the United States to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the United States.”?
The Lend-Lease Act
On May 27, 1939, hundreds of Jewish refugees were denied entry into the U.S, Cuba and other North and South American nations. this was called the?
The St. Louis Affair
On On April 18, the U.S. Navy used B-25 Bombers to drop bombs on Japan for the first time. This Event was called?
The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
What is the name of the case brought to the Supreme court that challenged executive order 9066? This gave the military the right to remove Japanese American citizens from the west coast to internment camps.
Korematsu v. United
What is the name of the Militia group in Italy that Supported Mussolini and fascism?
Black shirts
What policy declared the entire western half of the Atlantic as part of the Western Hemisphere and therefore neutral.
Hemispheric Defense Zone
a camp where persons are detained or confined is called?
Concentration Camps
Who led the American team of engineers and scientists building the atomic bomb
Robert Oppenheimer
What order Prohibited Discrimination practices in the Defense Industry during WWII?
Executive Order 8802