Dictators
Allied Leaders
Fascism's Rise
Events 1
Events 2
The Pacific
100
Established a totalitarian, communist state in Russia. Signed non-aggression pact with Germany.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
100
The US President who asked congress to declare war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
What is the definition of fascism?
A militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to the leader.
100
What was Hitler's hope in signing the German-Soviet nonaggression pact?
to avoid a two front war
100
Blitzkrieg literally means what?
Lighting War
100
Roosevelt called the Pearl Harbor Attack on December 7, 1941, a "Date which will live in______"
Infamy
200
He was a fascist leader who believed in the corporate state for Italy. Promised his people revitalization of economy and military.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
200
British Prime minister from 1937-1940 who claimed the appeasement of Hitler at the Munich Conference had created "a peace for our time"
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
200
How did Hitler gain support for his racist ideas against Jews?
Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s defeat in World War I and economic problems. Propaganda.
200
Germany invaded Poland on this date, marking the official beginning of WWII. Two days later, Britain and France declared war.
September 1, 1939
200
While many in the US were isolationist, meaning they wanted to avoid being involved in foreign politics, and although congress had passed several neutrality acts, Roosevelt was able to support any allies deemed essential to the defense of the US with weapons, goods, and soldiers, in exchange for cash and material goods, in a policy known as the ______-_____ Act.
Lend-Lease
200
If American's weren't outraged enough at Pearl Harbor, they were infuriated with this event, where some 70,000 Allied prisoners of war were mercilessly marched through the jungles of the Philippines by the Japanese army. 16,000 died.
"Bataan Death March"
300
Failed artist. He indoctrinated children with anti-Semitism. Committed suicide when he knew he'd lost.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
300
US Commander of forces in the Pacific. Said "I Shall Return" when the Philippines were conquered by Japan and later did. Accepted Japan's surrender.
Who is Douglas Macarthur?
300
How did the League of Nations respond when Hitler pledged to undo the Versailles Treaty?
They disapproved and mildly condemned him, but did nothing to stop him.
300
The beginning of the war between France and Germany saw little to no fighting, earning the conflict this name.
The Phoney War, or Sitzkrieg
300
German and Italian forces in North Africa sought to control this waterway - an essential avenue to British colonies like India, and middle eastern oil.
Suez Canal
300
The battle that destroyed much of the Japanese fleet and turned the tide of the war in the Pacific in favor of the United States
Battle of Midway
400
Japanese Emperor. He was symbol of state power in Japan during WW2. Japanese citizens looked at him as a divine entity.
Who was Hirohito?
400
British Prime Minister during the war. Rallied British determination and war effort with his 'Blood, toil, tears, and sweat' speech.
Who is Winston Churchill?
400
What was the result of the Munich Conference?
Britain and France agreed that Hitler could take the Sudetenland
400
The German Army invaded the Netherlands and Belgium, and then through the dense Ardennes forest in France, creating a pincer movement that trapped British and French forces at this port city, requiring 338,000 them to be rescued by small civilian boats from Britain.
Dunkirk
400
Germany's betrayal of their non-aggression pact with Russia and subsequent invasion of the Soviet Union was called what?
Operation Barbarossa
400
Macarthur's strategy for the Pacific involved avoiding Japanese strongholds, and instead skipping over them to more lightly defended islands closer to the Japanese mainland. This strategy was known as what?
Island-Hopping
500
He was a general who became Prime Minister of Japan during WW2. A militarist, he was primarily in charge of Japan's expansion and war effort.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
500
Five Star General. Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force. Led Allied invasion of Africa and Europe/D-Day and later became US President. Known as 'Ike'
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
500
What is meant by the 'Final Solution'?
Hitler's plant to exterminate Europe's Jewish population and other people he deemed 'inferior'.
500
What two technological innovations helped Great Britain's RAF fend off the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain?
RADAR and Enigma (code-breaking)
500
Armed merchant cruisers were essential in defending shipping from German battleships and U-boats in this, the longest continuous campaign of WWII.
the Battle of the Atlantic
500
The Manhattan project led to the creation of the atomic bomb. This was the first of two Japanese cities it was used on to end the Pacific war.
Hiroshima (Nagasaki was the second)