midterm history studyguide final

World war 1 beginning years and end

1914-1918

Treaties year ending world war 1

1919

Woodrow Wilson

was a U.S president during the world war and was apart of the big four at the treaty of Versailles.

Eddie rickenbacker

Vladimir lenin

Took Russia out of WWI

Armistice

Agreement to stop fighting

What years did World War II take place?

1939-1945

What three countries were the axis in World War II?

Germany

Italy

Japanese

What three countries were the Allies in World War II?

USSR

Great Britain

U.S.

Holocaust

A tragic destruction of people on a mass scale (genocide) where 6 million Jews were killed in concentration camps

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

An American general who commanded Operation Torch and later became the supreme allied commander in Europe. He was top commander at D-Day.

George Patton

This American general led troops in North Africa and Sicily, and was important as a decoy to deceive the Germans on D-Day.

Franklin D Roosevelt

He was