CAUSES: Europe
Hitler's need for "living space", for food production and to settle more Germans is known as ... ?
Lebensraum
Incident when Japanese soldiers exploded a small bomb on the South Manchurian Railway in September 1931, then seized the entire Manchurian province within a few months.
Mukden Incident
During the Winter War (1939-1940), the USSR invaded these five countries.
Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
By mid 1942, the Japanese had successfully captured the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and Burma. They now held a vast empire, which they labeled.....[...].
Meeting of Allied leaders in the USSR in February 1945 where many agreements were made about what the governments and borders of Europe would be after the war's end.
Yalta Conference.
Passed in 1933, this law granted Hitler dictatorial powers for four years without the need to consult or refer to the Reichstag.
The Enabling Act
Name the Month, Day, Year, and time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
December 7, 1941 - 7:53 AM
Sicily
This battle, near the Guadalcanal in May of 1942, was the first major success and turning point for the United States in the Pacific War.
Battle of the Coral Sea
American economic aid program established in 1947 for the recovery of Europe in response to the economic devastation from the war
Marshall Plan
Agreement brokered in 1935-1936, between Britain, France and Italy to work together diplomatically to isolate Germany from world affairs.
The Stresa Front
Name TWO other American-held territories that were attacked on the same day as Pearl Harbor.
Answer options:
Philippines
Guam
Wake Island
USA program that began in March 1941 that lent over $50 billion worth of war supplies to Allied nations
Lend-Lease
In June of 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy planned to attack and occupy this island to lure the US fleet out of Hawaii. But its codes were intercepted and broken before the attack could occur as planned.
Midway
Meeting of Allied leaders in Germany in July 1945 where it was decided to divide Germany into four occupation zones, to prosecute war criminals and expel Germans from lands outside Germany, among other issues.
Potsdam Conference
In the Munich Agreement, GB, FR, IT, and GMY agreed that [...] should be granted to GMY and it was understood, but not written, that GMY would then respect the territorial integrity of the rest of [...].
Sudetenland; Czechoslovakia.
Invasion of this territory by the Japanese, caused the United States to ban all oil exports to Japan.
French Indochina
The code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France) on August 15, 1944.
Operation Dragoon
The invasion of this island, from April 1-June 21 1945, was the last planned operation for the United States before they could launch a full mainland invasion of Japan.
Okinawa
Peace treaty signed with Japan which negotiated the renouncement of territorial claims and establishment of war crimes trials
Treaty of San Francisco
Germany announced in 1939 that it wanted to negotiate with Poland to take back part of its territory East Prussia and the city of [...] could be reattached to the rest of the country. Poland refused.
Danzig
During the Manchurian Crisis, a League of Nations commission was sent in to Japan to investigate and published this document, concluding that Japan had acted aggressively and its expansion should be stopped.
The Lytton Report
meaning "subhuman" - the term used by Hitler to describe races within Europe (including Jews and Slavs) that needed to be exterminated to allow for the growth of the Greater German Reich
untermenschen
On August 6, a USA modified B-29 dropped a uranium gun-type bomb on Hiroshima. What was the nickname for this bomb?
"Little Boy"
Who was appointed the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP), the lead the supervisory rule of Japan after WWII?
General Douglas MacArthur