Individuals
Who was the Italian Dictator who created the Fascist Party? He believed in having full power in order to run the country.
Benito Mussolini?
What country did Hitler invade on September 10, 1939?
Poland
What was the name of the German strategy of attack? It involved bombers, tanks, machine gun fire, and attack from the air?
Blitzkrieg, also known as "lightning war"
The United States government agreed to provide weapons to any country considered important to American security. What was the name of this policy?
The Lend-Lease Act?
What was the strategy of "Island Hopping?"
Capturing critical islands in the Pacific to establish air and naval bases
Who took over the Soviet Union in 1927?
Joseph Stalin
What countries declared war on Germany when Hitler invaded Poland?
France and Britain
What other country attacked Poland from the East in 1939?
The Soviet Union
Roosevelt declared that America would be what in their effort to help England in the war?
An "Arsenal of Democracy"
Women were allowed to join the military during the war. What do we call the branches of the Army and Navy where they served?
WACS and WAVES
Who became chancellor of Germany in 1933. He called himself, "Der Fuhrer."
Adolf Hitler
Who did Hitler regard as an "inferior race?" He believed that they were preventing Germany from reaching her potential as a world power.
The Jews
Hitler invaded which country in June of 1941? The code name for the attack was "Barbarossa."
The Soviet Union
The Neutrality Act of 1937 adopted what policy toward supplying warring nations with ammunition?
"Cash and Carry"
What happened to Adolf Hitler?
He committed suicide in an underground bunker
Who was the Emporer of Japan during World War II? He served as Emporer until 1989.
Hirohito
What country did Japan attack in December of 1941, bombing the naval base at Pearl Harbor?
The United States
What was the Battle of Britain?
The German Luftwaffe repeatedly bombed the cities of England, leaving much damage and loss of life.
The automobile industry was converted to produce what?
Tanks, airplanes, trucks, and artillery
The massacre of millions of people by the Nazis became known as what?
The Holocaust
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain who wanted to appease Hitler by signing the Munich Pact, stating that it would bring "peace in our time."
Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier gave the Sudentenland to Hitler in 1938. What was this policy to "preserve the peace" known as?
Appeasement
What was Roosevelt's response to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
He declared December 7th as a "day which will live in infamy!" and asked Congress to declare war on Japan.
Treblinka, Dachau, and Auschwitz were the names of what facilities established to eliminate those Hitler considered inferior.
Concentration camps
Who made the famous statement to the Filipinos when he left in 1942, "I shall return!"
Douglas MacArthur