Dictators & Axis Powers
Allies
1931-1941
USA in buildup to WWII
Nations at War
100
Il Duce
Who was Benito Mussolini?
100
Great Britain, France and eventually America, Soviet Union, China, and other nations.
What are the "Allies"
100
Nation in Africa invaded by Italy in 1935.
What is Ethiopia?
100
American's refusal to join this international body doomed it to weakness, as did its own lack of standing army and no real power to enforce its decrees.
What is the "League of Nations"
100
Two European nations that appeared to be winning the war in Europe at the end of 1940.
What are Germany and Italy?
200
Repressive theory and system of government in which a single aggressive leader (or party) controls and dominates the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people and limits individual freedom
What is Totalitarianism?
200
Prime Minister and defense minister of Great Britain during WWII
Who was Churchill?
200
Treaty that Hitler violated when he enlarged the army, navy, and air force from 1933 to 1936.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
200
1939 Act of Congress that included a "cash-and-carry provision" that allowed belligerent nations to buy goods and arms in the United States if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships.
What is the "Neutrality Act of 1939"?
200
December 7, 1941
What was the date that the Japanese mounted a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
300
Axis power that was not a totalitarian dictatorship but constitutional monarchy
What is Japan?
300
The British Prime Minister associated with appeasement
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
300
Fascists were victorious in the bloody civil war in this nation that raged from 1936 to 1939.
What is Spain?
300
Act that allowed President Roosevelt to sell, exchange, lease, or otherwise provide to any government any defense article he thought necessary for the defense of the United States; it was "an economic declaration of war against Germany and the Axis Powers"
What is the "Lend-Lease Act"?
300
Two nations defeated by Germany in April of 1940, after he had already conquered Poland and before conquered Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
What are Denmark and Norway?
400
1940 pact between Germany, Italy, and Japan to become allies.
What is the Tripartite Pact?
400
Leader of the free French who were not under German control.
Who was Charles de Gualle?
400
German name for "lightening war" or sudden attack, such as when Germany used speed and firepower to penetrate deep into energy territory.
What is "blitzkrieg"?
400
This group, whose most prominent voice was Charles Lindbergh, believed that the war was a European problem and that America should stay out of the war by remaining neutral.
What are "isolationists"? (Will accept the answer of Isolationism, which is the policy of national isolation).
400
Commander of the U.S. Army forces in Asia at time of Pearl Harbor.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
500
Name of the peaceful union that Germany completed with Austria in 1938, without notable objection from America, Britain, or France.
What is the Anschluss?
500
Agreement signed between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in August 1941, who met secretly on a warship off the coast of Newfoundland
What is the Atlantic Charter?
500
Name Japanese gave to new nation after Japan attacked and conquered Manchuria and established a puppet state
What is Manchukuo?
500
The act that established a peacetime draft.
What is the Selective Service Act?
500
Leader of raid of 16 B-25 bombers against Tokyo in April 1942.
Who is Colonel James Doolittle?