HISTORY TEST b4 springbreak

Leader of Nazi Germany during WW2

Adolf Hitler

Leader of fascist Italy during WW2

Benito Mussolini

Leader of communist Soviet Union during WW2

Joseph Stalin

Military leader of Japan during WW2

General Hideki Tojo

U.S. President for most of WW2

Franklin Roosevelt

U.S. President who took over in 1945 when FDR died

Harry Truman- made the decision to use the atomic bomb

Ideas promoted by Fascist dictators

Beleive that they were a superior race and that they had the right to take over other countries

Two sides that fought during WW2

Axis and the Allies

Axis Powers

Germany, Italy & Japan

Allied Powers (Main)

UK, France, China, US, & eventually the Soviet Union

Policy of giving an aggressor what they want in hopes that they stop

Appeasement

Why Britain & France agreed to the Munich Pact, appeasing Hitler by letting him take over the Sudetenland?

WW1 had ended just 1 generation earlier and they were not willing to go back to war over the Sudetenland

How appeasement is viewed today

Generally in a negative light b/c Hitler did not stop

Name given to the empire Japan wanted to control

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Event that led to WW2 starting in Europe

Germany’s invasion of Poland

Event that led to the U.S. joining WW2 w/ the Allies

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Two main theaters of war

Pacific and European (w/North Africa)

What FDR’s Executive Order 9066 did?

Began Japanese-American Internment

Japanese-American Internment (Executive order 9066)

The removal & relocation of Japanese Americans to remote camps during WW2

Location of most interment camps

Remote, dry areas by mountains or deserts

Where U.S. troops 1st fought in the European theater

North Africa

After North Africa, Axis Power where the U.S. fought

Italy

Mainland invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944. Allied forces attacked the beaches of Normandy in France.

D-Day Major turning point because it opened up another front in Europe to fight the Germans.

Important of D-Day

Allowed for the Allie’s to control part of mainland Europe leading to the eventual defeat of Germany

Last ditch counter-attack by German forces in late 1944

Battle of the Bulge

Turning point battle in the pacific where Japan lost 4 aircraft carries

Midway

Strategy used by U.S. to get closer to mainland Japan

Island hopping- it would minimize casualties and time to get closer to Japan

Pacific battles that showed Japanese unwillingness to surrender

Iwo Jima, Okinawa

Figure that became the symbol for all the women who took jobs in factories & other workplaces

Rosie the Riveter

A system that limits the amount of essential goods. This was implemented by the U.S. government during WW2

Rationing

Examples of things Americans were asked or required to do on the home front

Grow victory gardens, register for the draft, limit driving, recycle paper, metal, & clothing, buy wat bonds, black-out lights at night, hang service flags, make wise choices/be careful w/ what you share

The program set up to develop the atomic bomb

Manhattan project

President who decided to use the atomic bomb

Harry Truman

Two cities that atomic bombs were dropped on

Hiroshima, Nagasaki