CAUSES of WWII
This global economic crisis helped create instability and allowed extremist leaders like Hitler to rise to power.
What is the Great Depression?
Which war did the TOV officially end?
What is WWI?
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
This U.S. law allowed the United States to send war supplies to Allied nations before officially entering WWII.
These three countries were known as the main Axis Powers during World War II.
What are Germany, Italy and Japan?
This major Japanese attack in 1941 brought the United States officially into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This German leader promised to rebuild Germany and overturn the Treaty of Versailles.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
The treaty blamed this country for starting World War I.
What is Germany?
This president pushed Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act in 1941.
Who is FDR?
The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were members of this alliance.
What are the Allied powers?
This strategy allowed the U.S. to move across the Pacific by capturing key islands.
What is Island Hopping?
This political ideology, led by Hitler, emphasized extreme nationalism, dictatorship, and militarism.
What is Nazism?
Germany was forced to pay these to Allied nations after WWI.
What are reparations?
The main country the U.S. first supported through Lend-Lease was this Allied nation fighting Germany.
What is Great Britain / The United Kingdom?
This country was part of the Axis and attacked Pearl Harbor.
What is Japan?
These two cities were hit with atomic bombs, leading Japan to surrender and ending WWII.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This policy by Britain and France involved giving in to Hitler’s demands to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
This clause forced Germany to accept full blame for World War I.
What is The War Guilt Clause?
The U.S. sent these types of materials through Lend-Lease. (List 3)
What is: supplies, weapons, food, tanks, airplanes, trucks.
Which Allied country suffered the most casualties in WWII?
What is the USSR (Soviet Union)
This invasion of France in 1944 opened a second front against Germany in Western Europe.
What is DDAY?
Germany’s invasion of this country in 1939 officially began World War II.
What is Poland?
This international organization was created as part of the Treaty of Versailles to help prevent future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
Why was the Lend-Lease Act controversial in the U.S.?
What is many Americans believed it would pull the U.S. closer to war and break neutrality?
This Axis country switched sides in 1943 after Mussolini was removed from power and later joined the Allies in fighting Germany.
What is Italy?
This event in 1933 marked a major turning point because it allowed Germany to move toward dictatorship and eventually war.
What is Hitler's rise to power.