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Invasion on June 6, 1944, in which thousands of Allied soldiers were killed or wounded?
D-Day
Tactic of purposely crashing piloted planes into an enemy's ship.
Kamikaze
Harry Truman took over as President because President Roosevelt...
Died of a Stroke in April 1945
What American General was forced to retreat from the Philippines in March 1942?
Douglas MacArthur
Executive Order 9066 allowed the government to begin the process of _______, or forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans.
Internment
Extermination of an entire group of people.
Genocide
Policy allowing the U.S. to aid any nation vital to its defense.
Lend-Lease Act
The first priority of President Roosevelt and Churchill to defeat the Axis powers was to ...
Why did Hitler direct his anger towards intellectuals, Communists, and Jews in the 1930s?
He blamed then for Germany's economic problems and its defeat in WWI
The Allied Powers included U.S., Great Britain, Soviet Union, and _______.
China
Appeasement
Battle of the Bulge
600 Americans and thousands of Filipinos
What was significant about America's Selective training and Service Act in 1940?
It was the first peacetime draft in the country's history
In April 1943, Jewish people in the _______ rose up against the Germans, and it took nearly a month for the Nazis to crush the uprising.
Warsaw Ghetto
Battle in the Soviet Union during which German forces froze or starved to death.
Battle of Stalingrad
Fascist Italian Leader who allied with Hitler to form the Axis Powers.
Benito Mussolini
What Tuskegee Airman later became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force?
Benjamin O. Davis
Why did Japan plan a large scale attack against the U.S. naval fleet in Pearl Harbor?
It wanted to give itself time to secure control of East Asia before the U.S. military could respond
The Battle of _______ in the Philippines was the largest naval battle in history.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Organized a march on Washington in 1941 to demand equal pay for black workers.
A. Philip Randolph
The president who ordered the use of atomic bombs on Japan.
Harry S. Truman
The U.S. was expected to be responsible for the most postwar rebuilding because it...
Escaped much destruction and was the strongest power in the world
Why did Great Britan and France finally declare war on Germany in September 1939?
The had pledged to defend Poland Against Hitler, who attacked it from the west