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One of the earliest Fascist leaders, who came to power in Italy in 1922.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
100
One of the deadliest battles in the Pacific, with over 100,000 Japanese deaths, and gave the U.S. a location from which to launch an invasion of Japan.
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
100
The genocide of over 6 million Jews via concentration and extermination camps.
What is the Holocaust?
100
The contested area in Czechoslovakia that was given to Germany as part of the 1938 Munich Agreement.
What is the Sudetenland?
100
These countries are known as the Allies.
What are Great Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union?
200
He was a strong anti-semitic leader who was brought into power democratically, but promptly crushed his opposition and put into place a totalitarian, fascist government.
Who is Adolph Hitler?
200
Surprise German offensive in the middle of the winter in 1944, that was held back by the Allies and became the final major German offensive of the war.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
200
Form of government that stresses "nationalism" over "individualism".
What is fascism?
200
The cities in Japan that were each decimated by an atomic bomb.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
Countries invaded by Germany in order to improve access to the Atlantic Ocean.
What are Norway and Denmark?
300
Leader that was very critical of his predecessor's appeasement of Germany with the Munich Agreement, and warned that it would likely lead to war.
Who is Winston Churchill?
300
This was the first time the U.S. stopped the Japanese advance in the Pacific, at a great cost to both sides.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
300
Treaty that severely crippled Germany following WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
The prevailing attitude of the American public before WW2?
What is isolationism?
300
Produced the atomic bomb, and was led by J. Robert Oppenheimer.
What is the Manhattan Project?
400
Prime Minister of Japan who did not want to compromise with the United States, and instead sought to use the military to expand the Japanese empire.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
400
Plan to invade Northern France (aka Normandy) by crossing the English Channel.
What is Operation Overlord?
400
Idea of wanting to be involved in foreign affairs, and was the the attitude of Franklin of Roosevelt.
What is interventionism.
400
The river in Germany that had to be crossed by the western Allies in order to begin advancing into the heart of Germany, and bring about an end to the European war.
What is the Rhine River?
400
Placing troops into a region in order to maintain control of that area.
What is an occupation?
500
Organized the mobilization effort in the U.S. and played a key role in devising the U.S. strategy for WW2.
Who is George C. Marshall?
500
A battle that gave the U.S. an airfield in the Solomon Islands, and protected Australia from Japanese attack.
What is the Battle of Guadalcanal?
500
The democratic government in Germany before Adolph Hitler came to power.
What is the Weimar Republic?
500
A battle in the Soviet Union that occurred at a city on the Volga River, where the German army was badly defeated by the Soviets. This marked the turning point of the war for the Soviet Union, as the German army was constantly in retreat afterwards.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad.
500
These are the main ideas for the three Neutrality Acts.
What is: 1. Not providing weapons to foreign nations at war. 2. Not providing loans to foreign nations at war. 3. "Cash and Carry"