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Axis, Allied Powers
European Theater
Pre-War
Post-War, Women, Home-front Challenges, Propaganda
Pacific Theater
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Germany's Leader
Who is Hitler
100
Turning Point
D-Day (mass Allied invasion of French beach)
100
Joining of Austria and Germany because Germany threatened to attack Austria, this scared the allied powers.
What is Anschluss
100
What was rationed
What are, meat, butter, sugar, nylon, gas
100
Resolution?
Atomic bomb dropped (see below) Japan surrenders shortly after
200
The Leaders of England, America, and Soviet Union are
Who are, FDR, Churchill, Stalin
200
Resolution
Germany surrenders, V-E (Victory in Europe) Day
200
Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded only a few days before the beginning of World War II and which divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence
What is Nonaggression Pact
200
Iron Curtain?
Churchill used this term to describe that the soviet union was in control of Europe
200
Turning Point?
Midway (island that US forces are pushed back to, launch offensive against Japanese and reverse process of island hopping)
300
Who was on the Axis side and who was the leaders (3)
Who is Germany- Hitler, Japan- Hirohito, Italy- Mussolini?
300
How was Rhineland and Poland important in the pre-war (2 answers)
Rhineland- Was western Germany, Germany re-invaded it. This action was forbidden by the treaty of Versailles Poland- one of the final straws before war
300
Marshall Plan?
By the USA, it was a policy that gave money to European countries to help them rebuild after the war. This plan had as an additional motive: linking these countries to the U.S. instead of the Soviet Union. The Cold War had begun.
400
The Big Three
What is the Allied Powers: America, Soviet Union, England
400
Key Events?
Key Events: Germany (& its allies) gain control over all of Europe (including France) except Switzerland & UK by 1942 Germany invades USSR, but suffers heavy losses Allies invade France (D-Day), Italy surrenders Paris liberated from German control Heavy Allied bombing of Germany & Battle of the Bulge (Germany's last big stand)
400
What are three actions that lead to the war are...
What is... 1. Germany invades Poland 2. Germany made an alliance with Japan and Italy 3. Germany re-occupies Rhineland
400
How were women affected?
Many go to be employed due to labor shortages from men
400
Terms Related?
Island-hopping- attacking one island and using it as a base to attack other islands Kamikaze- when Japanese ran low on bullets & bombs, pilots would crash their planes into ships/Allied troops Atomic bomb- US 1st considered an all-out invasion of Japan, decide to use the bomb instead, Hiroshima on August 6 (80,000 die immediately) and Nagasaki on August 9 (60,000 die immediately)
500
Who Won the war
Allied Powers
500
Terms Related?
Luftwaffe-German air force, bombed England Royal Air Force (RAF)- much smaller than Luftwaffe but hold them off Slash and Burn- Soviet policy of destroying everything as they retreat, Germany retreats from USSR
500
Minister of England signed this saying that Germany could have Sudetenland
What is Munich Pact
500
This helped Hitler spread his word to the public through the news...
What is Propaganda?
500
Key Events?
Invasion of Manchuria (beginning of Japanese expansion) Bataan Death March- captured US Prisoners of War were forced to march over 100 miles w/o water, widely publicized in US newspapers- made Americans furious Okinawa and Iwo Jima- costly victories for US (12,500 US soldiers, 160,000 Japanese deaths), led the US to believe that Japanese would fight to death