Early World War II
France and Great Britain Declared war on Germany after it invaded what country?
What is Poland
What tactic do totalitarian leaders use to achieve their goals?
What is violence/ Suppression of their opposition
What secret government project was created to build the Atomic Bomb?
Manhattan Project
Who was the President who made the decision to drop the bombs on Japan
Harry Truman
What country was invaded, which officially started WWII?
German war strategy that used speed, quickness, and armor.
What is Blitzkrieg?
Who was the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union during World War II
What is Josef Stalin
Which countries messages was the US able to decode?
What was Japan
Which three countries made up the Axis Powers
What is Germany, Japan, Italy
Name four countries that made up the allies?
France, USSR, Britain, and USA
What city was the first city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it?
What is Hiroshima?
How many Americans died at Pearl Harbor?
What is 2,403?
This U.S. president could not come to England's aid directly due to Neutrality Acts passed by Congress several years earlier. These Acts were slowly relaxed.
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
Where did the big 3 (leaders of the Allies) meet to discuss the world after the war?
Yalta
This was the location of the Japanese attack against the United States.
What was Pearl Harbor
What ideological battle separated Stalin and the Soviets from the other Allies
Communism v. Democracy
What country did Douglas MacArthur and his troops free from Japanese control
What was the Philippines
Japan invaded this Asian country due to its need of land and natural resources.
What is China?
Who was the emperor of Japan during WW2?
Who was Emperor Hirohito
Mussolini was an example of a new type of political ideology. What was it called?
What is Facism
This country became the "arsenal of democracy" in the early 1940's because it produced war goods for countries around the world.
What is the United States?
What is the tactic used to regain control of territory in the Pacific?
"Island-Hoping"
The name given to the systematic extermination of all European Jews.
What was the Holocaust?
Why was the atomic bomb used to force Japan to surrender?
A land invasion would lead to the death of hundreds of thousands of American troops, and more civilian deaths in Japan