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Why did WWII end the Great Depression?
Huge increase in government and spnding put more money into the economy.
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Who were the major members of the Allied Powers?
U.S., USSR, Britain, France, China and 29 others
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Who was the supreme allied commander in Europe and the American general known for toughness in North Africa?
Eisenhower and George Patton
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What is genocide and who did Hitler commit genocide against and where?
Destroying an entire race, against the Jews, killed 2 million of them just at Auschwitz - 6 million in all
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What was the Manhattan project? What president Ok'd the use of it, what mad led the project, who told the president that the Germans were working on it, what 2 cities were hit?
Atomic bomb, led by Oppenheimer, Truman decided to use the bomb because Einstein said the Germans were working on it. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What is the black market?
illegal selling of goods
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Who are the members of the Axis Powers?
Germany, Italy and Japan Plus 7 others
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Who was the most important British general and the best known German General who was known as the Desert Fox?
Montgomery and Rommel
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Who was MacArthur? What did he say? What Pacific Island was he the general for the Americans?
Douglas MacArthur, "I shall return", Philipines - largest surrender in hisotry. Famous Bataan Death March for many Filipino and American soldiers
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When did the Japanese surrender?
August 1
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What are the four government boards that were established and what did they do?
WPB, OSRD, OPA, NWLB
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Where are the four places the war was fought?
Italy/North Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the Far East/ Pacific
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What is important about El Alamein and Stalingrad?
El Alamein was the turning point in 1942 and Stalingrad was in 1943.
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Who is James DooLittle and what is he known for?
James Doolittle and bombing raid on Tokyo.
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How many U.S. died - How Many USSR and how much was spent in the war?
U.S. 300,000-700,000 deaths USSR 2 million deaths U.S. spent $320 billion
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What is a Nesei person?
Japanese American put in concentration camps during WWII.
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What were the four strategies of the Allies?
1. Defeat Germany, accept only unconditional surrender, no major invasion of Western Europe (D-DAY) until 1944, Island hopping strategy (capture certain ones and bypass others)
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When was D-Day and where and why was it important?
June 6, 1944, on the Normandy Beach in northern France, and it was the largest amphibious operation in history - also called Operation Overlord - pushed Germany out of France eventually
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Name the 3 battles in the Pacific you studied and why they were important?
Battle of the Coral Sea was the first battle fought entirely by aircraft based planes, Battle of Midway was turning point of the war in the Pacific, and Guadacanal was first allied offensive in the Pacific.
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What was the name of the Conference where Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin got together at the end of WWII? What 4 decisions did they make?
Yalta Conference 4 zones of occupation Berlin divided into 4 zones Stalin said he'd hold free elections USSR would enter war against Japan 3 months after German's surrender and get North Korea
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What is the reason that WWII caused inflation?
The demand was up because people had more money, but the government was busy making war products.
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Why did they want to defeat Germany first?
1. Would leave Japan exposed to overwhelming force, 2. Germany posed a more direct threat to the west, 3. Germany might develop new weakpons, 4. Germany might force USSR out of the war.
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What was the Battle of the Bulge
Last German offensive battle in 1944, it failed, V-2 missles were launched against England... so on VE Day the Germans surrendered.
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What were the kamikaze?
Japanese suicide bombers
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What United Nations committee is responsible for keeping world peace? Who belosngs?
Security Council, U.S., USSR, Britain, France and CHina