What was the name of the German Empire under Hitler?
Third Reich
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What were Japanese suicide pilots called?
Kamikazes
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What is rationing?
Establishing a fixed allotment of goods
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What is a totalitarian government?
A government that exerts complete control over its citizens
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What was the "cash and carry" policy?
US would give aid to countries that paid cash and transported it themselves
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Where did Hitler move his troops that was supposed to be demilitarized after WWI?
Rhineland
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Where did Japan first invade?
Manchuria (CHINA)
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How did women's lives in the US change during WWII?
jobs, more freedom, could join military
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What is nationalism?
Loyalty to one’s country above all else
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What is appeasement?
Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor
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What country did Hitler invade first?
Austria
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Who was the military leader of Japan?
Tojo
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Why did the USA enter WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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What is fascism?
An ideology that stressed nationalism and the interest of the state above those of individuals
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What is isolationism?
Staying out of all foreign affairs and only focusing on your own country
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What area did Hitler claim would be his last territorial demand?
Sudetenland
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On what island did a very bloody battle take place and where one of the most famous pictures of WWII was taken?
Iwo Jima
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Who became president after FDR died?
Harry S. Truman
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What is neutrality?
The policy of refusing to be involved in the conflicts of other nations
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What was one goal of Nazism under Hitler?
Racial purification,
Unite all German speaking people,
National expansion
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What was the Munich Agreement?
France and Great Britain turned the Sudetenland over to Germany w/o a single shot being fired because Hitler promised it was his last territorial demand. -An example of appeasement.
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What was the Allies' strategy of taking back one island at a time in the Pacific called?
Island hopping
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Who led during the US occupation of Japan?
General MacArthur
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What is propaganda?
Material that is meant to make you feel or believe a certain way; usually put out by a government