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Leader who has absolute power and rules over a nation by force (vocabulary)
What is a dictator?
Fast, sudden attack by massed forces. (vocabulary)
What is a blitzkrieg?
To make scarce items available to peopl eon a limited basis. (vocabulary)
What is a ration?
A military blockade. (vocabulary)
A strategy used during World War II that called for attacking and capturing certain key islands and then using these islands as bases from which to attack others. (vocabulary)
What is island hopping?
Dislike or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group. (vocabulary)
What is anti-Semitism?
Giving up military weapons. (vocabulary)
What is disarmament?
Protective measures taken by civilians in case of attack. (vocabulary)
What is civil defense?
An attempt to kill an entire population, such as an ethnic group. (vocabulary)
What is genocide?
During World War II, a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target. (vocabulary)
What is a kamikaze?
Seeking to control all aspects of life through dictatorial control. (vocabulary)
What is totalitarianism?
Great Britain & France declared war on Germany two days after Hitler invaded this country.
What is Poland?
Camp where Japanese Americans were kept during World War II. (vocabulary)
What is an internment camp?
The name given to the mass slaughter of Jews by the Nazis during World War II. (vocabulary)
What is the Holocaust?
The war with this country ended when the United States dropped atomic bombs on two of their cities.
What is Japan?
The policy of giving in to the demands of others in an effort to keep peace. (vocabulary)
What is appeasement?
Japan attacked this American navy facility on Dec 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
These United States businesses started producing materials needed to fight the war after the United States joined the war effort.
What are factories?
A large prison camp used to hold people for political reasons. (vocabulary)
What is a concentration camp.
In this battle, the Americans destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and hundred of airplanes.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Some of the factors that contributed to the rise of European dictators.
What is joblessness and resentment?
This President broke from American tradition and was elected to a third term in 1940. The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution now limits all Presidents to two terms.
Who is FDR?
The places where many Japanese-Americans were held after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
What are internment camps?
This German leader was in command of the German forces in North Africa.
Who is Erwin Rommel?
Top Secret project created by FDR to create the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?