America and the World
WWII Begins
The Holocaust
America Enters the War
America
100
He was the dictator who founded Fascist Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
100
This policy led the Britain and France to agree to Hitler's demands to grant him Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia.
What is Appeasement?
100
These were the detention centers where Nazis imprisoned Jews.
What are concentration camps?
100
Under this act by congress, warring nations could buy weapons from the US only if they paid cash and carried the arms on their own ships.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1939?
100
This was the goal of some African American's to win a victory over Hitler's racism overseas and a victory over racism at home.
What is the "Double V?"
200
This man led the Bolshevik Party and established communist governments throughout the Russian empire.
Who is Vladimir Lenin.
200
Hitler invading this country started WWII.
What is Poland?
200
More than 90 Jews were killed, hundreds were badly injured, and thousands were terrorized due to the anti-Jewish violence that erupted on this "night of broken glass."
What is Kristallnacht?
200
In this deal, America exchanged 50 US destroyers for American bases on on British-controlled Newfoundland.
What is Destroyers for Bases?
300
Based on the belief that arms sales had helped bring the US into WW I, this act made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1935?
300
This is the line of concrete bunkers and fortifications along the German border built to protect France.
What is the Maginot Line?
300
At this conference, the Nazis gathered to determine "the final solution to the Jewish question."
What is the Wannsee Conference?
300
Under this act, the US would be able to lend or lease arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States."
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
The idea that trade between nations creates prosperity and helps to prevent war.
What is internationalism?
400
Hitler sent troops into Austria to announce this, which means the unification Austria and Germany.
What is Anschluss?
400
These laws took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
400
This committed Roosevelt and Churchill to a post-war world of democracy, nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
500
In this committee in 1934, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota held hearings to investigate the country's involvement in WWI.
What is the Nye Committee?
500
This battle was where the Luftwaffe launched an all out air battle to destroy the British Royal Air Force.
What is the Battle of Britain?
500
These were attached to many concentration camps solely for executing Jews in massive gas chambers.
What are extermination camps?
500
America embargoes Japan by restricting the sale of strategic materials, which led to this event.
What is Pearl Harbor?