totalitarianism
Totalitarian leaders of Germany, Italy and Soviet Union
Who are Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin?
Axis Powers
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
Largest seaborne invasion in history
What is D-Day?
a suicide plane attack in which the Japanese pilots crashed their bomb-laden planes into Allied ships
What is kamikaze?
Name of Hitler's book laying out his dreams of the future
What are the Soviet Union and Germany?
the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast
What is Japanese Internment?
Luftwaffe vs. the RAF
What is the Battle of Britain?
Commander of American naval forces in the Pacific
Who is Admiral Chester Nimitz?
Two goals for Hitler's perfect German Empire
What is racial purification and expansion of living space?
Fighting including surprise attacks, rapid advances, massive air attacks stunning/shocking the enemy
What is blitzkrieg?
Reason behind the US dropping the second bomb at Nagasaki
What is the Japanese were not surrendering?
Winter setting in allowed the Soviets to win this nearly lost battle
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
Compared this act to lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire
What is the Lend Lease Plan?
Where Hitler demanded to give France their terms of surrender
What is the same exact railroad car where the allies humiliated Germany in WWI?
The Supreme Court decided that the government’s policy of evacuating Japanese Americans to camps was justified on the basis of “military necessity.”
What is Korematsu vs. US?
Greatest number of losses in the Pacific (up until the Abombs)
What is the Battle of Iwo Jima?
What is the Office of Scientific Research and Development - sonar/radar, pesticides, penicillin, and the atomic bomb?
The reason totalitarian leaders were able to take over in Europe
What is the Great Depression, inflation, unemployment, citizens being unused to Democracy especially in a time of crisis?
What is the phantom army placed at the narrowest spot of the English Channel, spies giving false information that they'd attack at Calais?
Percent of people with Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii
What is 37%?
Battle that showed the US that if they ever attacked the mainland, it would be a long, life consuming fight, pushing them to the decision of launching the ABombs
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
Treaty between the Soviets and its satellites to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and set up a unified military
What is the Warsaw Pact?