Leaders in WWII
This man led Germany into WWII
Adolf Hitler
Many governments in the leadup to WWII used this type of idea to make their people love their country a crazy amount and make them believe their country was better than all other countries and could do whatever they wanted because of them being better
Nationalism
The US entered the war when the Japanese surprised attacked American ships at this Navy Base on Dec 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
The political party Hitler led that became the only legal political party in Germany
Nazis
In 1938, Hitler broke the Munich Pact with England and France by invading Czechoslovakia, proving to the French and British that Hitler could not be _____ to keep his promises
trusted
This man helped America recover from the Great Depression and tried to keep the US out of WWII
Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR)
Benito Mussolini is known for leading Italy and creating the first _____ political movement
Fascist
Before the Japanese attack very few Americans wanted to join the war. After the attack many Americans wanted the US to declare war and many Americans volunteered to fight because they wanted _____ against the Japanese
Revenge
Germany started WWII by invading this country
Poland
The failed policy England and France adopted toward Hitler to keep him happy and hopefully prevent him from starting another war
Appeasement
This man became Prime Minister of Britain in the middle of WWII
Winston Churchill
This government system in Germany promoted extreme nationalism & racism, abolished civil liberties, and forcibly eliminated all opposition
Nazism
The Japanese attacked the US Navy because they were trying to destroy these kind of ships so that the US could not get involved in the Japanese takeover of Asia
Aircraft Carriers
The Nonaggression Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union ended when Hitler did this
Attacked/Invaded the Soviet Union
Britain was able to avoid getting conquered by the Germans because unlike the rest of Europe, Britain was an _____, which meant an army couldn't march into their country
This man was the totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union (Russia)
Joseph Stalin
These 3 countries signed onto the Tripartite Pact to create an alliance of dictatorships and keep other democratic countries (like the US) from getting involved in the war
Germany, Italy, Japan
These laws were passed by the US 4 times before entering WWII because they wanted to avoid getting drawn into another European fight like had happened in WWI
The Neutrality Acts
Hitler was able to come into power in Germany by convincing Germans that only he could fix the economic problems that were caused by these 2 events
WWI and the Great Depression
After Hitler conquered France, he let one part of France remain "free". This part of France known as VICHY FRANCE was not really free but actually his kind of state
puppet state
This man became the leader of Italy and dragged the country into WWII
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin led this type of government system in the Soviet Union where the government controlled every part of their peoples lives
Totalitarianism
The law the United States passed to help send guns, planes, tanks, and ships to England and later Russia to fight Hitler was called
The military strategy used the Germans to make sure they conquered countries as fast as possible using tanks and planes and attacking centers of power
Blitzkrieg
Hideki Tojo