Battles
This military strategy was used by Germany to quickly conquer Poland in 1939 and then France in 1940.
What is blitzkrieg?
The United States, led by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What is the Allied Powers?
This is the term for the alliance of countries that opposed the Axis Powers.
What are the Allied Powers?
One of the most famous propaganda pieces of all time, "Rosie the Riveter" helped get factories more workers because it appealed to this group of people.
What is American women?
This ideology created a political climate that pushed more than one nation into war by emphasizing nationalism, racism, and expansion.
What is fascism?
This notable battle of 1940 is important because it was the first major defeat for Adolf Hitler.
What is the Battle of Britain?
Germany, led by Adolf Hitler.
What is the Axis Powers?
This legislation allowed the U.S. to supply military aid to foreign nations during the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This is the limiting of goods that are available to civilians during wartime.
What is rationing?
This was one of the biggest economic problems that led to World War 2.
What is the Great Depression?
December 7, 1941, "a day that will live in infamy", that led to the U.S. entering the war.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Italy, led by Benito Mussolini.
What is the Axis Powers?
This term refers to the countries that fought against the Allies during World War II.
What are the Axis Powers?
During the war, many Americans saved food costs by planting and maintaining these.
What are victory gardens?
What is inflation?
This city fell to Germany less than a month after the initial invasion of France, and was a powerful strategic win for Hitler?
What is Paris?
The United Kingdom, led by Winston Churchill.
What are the Allied Powers?
This term describes the camps where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during the war.
What are Japanese internment camps?
This famous group of black pilots flew thousands of combat missions, and set an example for the rest of the nation to follow.
Who are the Tuskeegee Airmen?
The German invasion of this country marked the official beginning of World War 2.
What is Poland?
The key elements of Blitzkrieg that allowed it to be so incredibly effective against the Polish and French forces.
What are attack where your enemy is weak and never stop moving?
The Soviet Union, led by Josef Stalin.
What is Axis at first, then became an Allied Power?
(you need to know they were mostly on the Allied side)
This term describes the policy of giving in to aggressive demands to maintain peace.
What is appeasement?
Another way for citizens to support the war was by buying these, long term loans to the government that would eventually be returned with interest.
What are war bonds?
The extremely unfair terms of this Treaty, which ended World War 1, helped cause World War 2.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?