Major Battles and Bombings
This country attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Japan
These are the countries that made up the Allied powers (name 3).
What are: Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, or China
This person became the dictator in Germany.
Who is Adolf Hitler
What ethnic group did Adolf Hitler blame for all of Germany's problems?
Who are the Jewish people
The stipulations of this treaty ended WWI and also caused people of Germany, Italy, and Japan to be angry with the West
What is The Treaty of Versailles
This was the last major battle in the Pacific between the U.S. and Japan.
What is The Battle of Midway
These countries made up the Axis powers.
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
This person was Britain's prime minister during WWII
Who was Winston Churchill
These were the places that the German government relocated jews and political prisoners
Concentration camps - labor and death camps
This is what the German government did in order to try and help its failing economy and caused hyper-inflation
Printed too much money
These two cities were destroyed by the USA with the atomic bomb on August 6 and August 9th of 1945
Heroshima and Nagasaki
The invasion of this country by Germany led to the start of WWII.
What is Poland
This American military leader led the Allied forces for most of WWII and later became U.S. president
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This is the approximate number of Jewish people who were murdered during the Holocaust?
What is 6 million.
This was the political approach that most of Europe had in response to Germany's disregard of the Treaty of Versailles
What is appeasement
The German bombing of London is called this.
What is The Battle of Britain or The Blitz
The country that lost the most most men was this Allied nation.
USSR (Soviet Union)
This was the dictator of Russia.
Who was Joseph Stalin
The term "Final Solution" means this.
What is Germany's plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe
This part of the Treaty of Versailles contributed to its inability to get a better economy.
The invasion of this part of France is known as D-Day.
The Battle of Normandy
This was the type of government that the Axis powers practiced.
What is Facism.
This Italian dictator was overthrown, escaped, and was later recaptured and executed
Who is Benito Mussolini
True or false: the persecution of the Jewish people was a new idea and was only practiced in Germany
False
This is why Italians didn't like the Treaty of Versailles
They did not get the land and colonies promised to them after WWI