Intro to War
This dictator created "five year plans" to industrialize the USSR.
Who is Stalin?
This dictator based his ideology on racist beliefs.
Who is Hitler?
This expanded the draft and eventually provided another 10 million soldiers to meet the armed forces’ needs.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This battle was the largest sea-land-air invasion in history.
What is D-Day/Operation Overlord?
This is when a warring nation is allowed to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own ships.
What was the cash and carry policy?
This was the fascist dictator that ruled Italy.
Who is Mussolini?
This general won the Spanish Civil War?
Who is Francisco Franco?
This allowed women to serve in noncombat military roles.
What is Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)?
This was the commander of the allied forces in the Pacific.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This general liberated Paris.
Who is George Patton?
Congress passed a series of neutrality acts, and they did this.
What is forbid the sale of weapons/ loaning money to nations at war?
The Munich pact demonstrates Britain and France's policy of this.
What is Appeasement?
This man led the Manhattan Project.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This was the last German offensive.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
These were the "Big Three" Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference.
Who were Stalin, FDR, and Churchill?
This nation signed a nonaggression pact with Germany and agreed to divide Poland.
What is the Soviet Union?
A policy of genocide, the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population.
What is the final solution?
This person organized a march on Washington to protest discrimination in wartime industries.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
This was the reason Midway was a turning point in the Pacific.
What is the Allies began “island hopping”? Island by island they won territory back from the Japanese.
The United States defeated Japan dropping atomic bombs on these two cities.
What were Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This is how the treaty of Versailles lead to the rise of the Nazis.
What are War Guilt Clause, War Reparations, etc.
These groups were target for elimination by the Nazis.
What were Jewish population, Romani, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, etc.
This fought inflation and rationed food.
What is the Office of Price Administration?
This was the reason the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was created.
What is to fight segregation in the North?
This bill provided education and training for veterans, paid for by the federal government.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?