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America and the World
WWII Begins
Holocaust
America Enters War
Vocabulary
100
What type of government is run by a single ruler?
Dictatorship
100
What was appeasement?
Giving into Hitler's demands to avoid war
100
What was the name of the German secret police?
The Gestapo
100
Japan's attack on what American base led to America joining WWII?
Pearl Harbor
100
Dictator of Germany
Adolf Hitler
200
What were the three countries of the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
200
What country did Germany invade to start WWII?
Poland
200
What is the name of the night of an attack on Jewish businesses and synagogues?
Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass"
200
What act allowed the US to give arms to countries that were vital to the defense of the US?
Lend-Lease Act
200
Dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini
300
What was the name of Adolf Hitler's book calling for the unification of Germany?
Mein Kampf
300
What was the word that meant "lightning war" or using tanks as well as aircraft bombing
Blitzkrieg
300
What was the name of the ship that Jewish refugees were on, but were turned away by the United States and Cuba?
The SS St. Louis
300
What was the name of the group that did not want America to help the Allies?
America First Committee
300
Leader of USSR that began an effort to industrialize their country?
Joseph Stalin
400
What made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country in war?
The Neutrality Act of 1935
400
What was the name of the German Air Force?
The Luftwaffe
400
What was the name of the laws made to take away Jewish rights such as German citizenship?
the Nuremberg Laws
400
What was the treaty between Roosevetl and Churchill that pushed for free trade, freedom of the seas after the war?
The Atlantic Charter
400
Leader of Russia that created the USSR
Vladimir Lenin
500
What was an aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual?
Fascism
500
What was the event where Germans had the Allies moving toward the English Channel, but Hitler ordered them to stop?
"The Miracle at Dunkirk"
500
What was the conference to decide the final solution to the Jewish question?
Wannsee Conference
500
What did Roosevelt use to patrol the Western Atlantic to get locations of German submarines?
Hemisphere defense zones
500
Dictator of Spain
Francisco Franco