WW2 Europe
This event started WW2
Germany invasion of Poland on 9/1/1939
What event brought the US into WW2?
attack on Pearl Harbor
Name for event where 6 million Jews were murdered
Holocaust
Name of the conflict after WW2
Cold War
What is one way the US raised money in WW2?
Income tax and war bonds
Word for Germany's fast moving military attacks
blitzkrieg
How did the US end WW2? (2 answers)
dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Why did the Nazis persecute the Jews?
Hitler and Nazis believed Jews were evil and the German people's greatest enemy
Term for preventing the spread of communism
containment
What kind of posters did the US use to promote national pride and employment opportunities during WW2?
propaganda
D-Day (Operation Overlord)
What strategy did the US use to get closer to Japan during WW2?
island hopping
Laws that made it to where Jews lost rights and citizenship in Germany
Nuremberg Laws
idea that if one country becomes communists, more countries will become communist
Domino Theory
What word explains why people were fearful and acqused people of being Communists
McCarthyism
Name of operation where Germany invaded the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
Why did the US choose to bomb Japan?
millions possible dead, Okinawa/Iwo Jima examples, etc
Which group(s) of people did the US put in internment camps in the US?
Japanese (Germans & Italians)
This doctrine stated the US who provide any aide to any country to prevent that country from becoming communist
Truman Doctrine
Why did people agree to ration during WW2?
It war fair and equal, and would help win the war
Why did Germany sign a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union before WW2 started?
To avoid fighting on 2 fronts
What battle was a turning point in the pacific during WW2?
Battle of Midway
Name of Japanese Unit who experimented on mostly citizens.
Unit 731
What was the Soviet response to the Marshall Plan?
Berlin Blockade
After WW2, what kind of economic problems did the US face?
inflation and higher prices