Rise of Dictators
What did Hitler want to be as a young man?
Artist
Which countries made up the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
What countries made up the Allied powers?
USA, USSR, Great Britain
Where did the Nazis send the Jews?
Concentration camps
What is MAD?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What city did Mussolini and his black shirts march on?
Rome
What year did Germany invade Poland?
1939
1940
What terms is given to the night the Nazis and others vandalized Jewish businesses and homes?
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
Who were the two competing powers in the Cold War?
USA and USSR
Who followed Lenin as leader of the USSR?
Stalin
What was the name of the project that developed the atomic bomb?
The Manhattan Project
Which US president made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
Harry Truman
Approximately how many Jews died in the Holocaust?
6 million
What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
What was the name of the event initiated by Stalin that sent millions to the gulags?
The Great Purge
The USSR pledged which of the following at the Yalta Conference in February of 1945?
To attack Japan within 90 days of German surrender
Which of the following agreements allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland as long as he did not invade the rest of Czechoslovakia?
The Munich Pact/Agreement
What was the largest ghetto in WWII?
Name both of the main Proxy Wars that occurred during the Cold War
Korean War and Vietnam War
What is the name of the group Japan proposed as a justification for expansion?
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Why were the bombs dropped on Japan?
It was believed that using the bombs would end the war quickly and ultimately save lives.
What is the name of the military operation where Germany invaded the Soviet Union?
Operation Barbarossa
What is the Hebrew term the Jews use to describe the Holocaust?
Who was leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Khruschev