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The Allies adopted a Europe First strategy because

only Germany was considered a serious long term threat

Willfull annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group

genocide

fostered cooperation between the great powers

United Nations

Limiting the amount of certain goods that a civilian can buy

rationing

strategy used for capturing strategic Pacific locations

island hopping

US organization designed to aid Eastern European Jews

War Refugee Board

During WW2 many African Americans

joined organizations dedicated to fighting segregation

legal actions taken against Nazis

Nuremberg trials

Governs the treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war

Geneva conference

In the years closely following WW2 many African Americans

renewed their efforts to work for civil rights

Which group did Nazi ideology consider superior to other people

aryans

How did the Great Depression eventually change Germany politically

Germans eventually believed that Hitler would solve their problems

Following the battle of Stalingrad

Hitler’s plans of dominating Europe were ended

What role did the Office of War Mobilization play during the war

it supervised use of industry resources

Wartime migration caused the worse incident of racial violence in

Detroit Michigan

Which of the following describes the Battle of Midway

The Japanese navy was concentrated near the location of the battle

At the 1942 Wannsee Conference, Reinhard Heydrich

outlined a plan to exterminate about 11 million Jews

British leader who said that Nazi aggression threatened all democracies

Winston Churchill

Army Auxiliary corps for women

WAC

Germany dictator

Adolf Hitler

US commander

Douglas Macarthur

General who staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

Hideki Tojo

Theory of government in which one person or party controls all aspects of life

totalitarianism

Signed by the Axis powers

Tripartite act

lightning war

blitzkrieg

Document that strengthened the alliance between the US and Britain

Atlantic charter

Germany’s peaceful union with Austria

Anschluss

The Neutrality act of 1939 allowed nations at war to buy arms and other supplies from the US as long as those nations

paid cash and transported the materials themselves

How did Japan attempt to recover from the Great Depression

Japan seized control of resources in other nations

What goal did President Roosevelt hope to achieve when he enacted the embargo on naval and aviation supplies in 1940

to stop Japanese expansion

Which of the following was perceived as being equivalent to declaring economic war against the Axis powers

Lend Lease act

Dropping large amounts of bombs to inflict maximum damage

saturation bombing

drafted under the guidance of Eleanor Roosevelt

universal declaration of Human rights

President Truman’s chief priority in using the atomic bomb was to

save American lives

Dropping bombs that target key political and industrial centers

strategic bombing

who made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan

Harry S Truman

Which of the following limited the initial US response to the Holocaust

Many people underestimated Hitler’s plans

What was one effect of the D Day invasion

the Allies took an important step toward reaching Berlin

As American forces approached Japan the Japanese forces

fought almost to the last preferring killing themselves to surrender

Japanese Americans generally faced more restrictions that Italian or German Americans during WW2 because they

lived along the West Coast

Nazi attempt to kill all Jews as well as other undesirables under their control

Holocaust

Interventionists claimed that the US could avoid war if it

sent aid to Britain

Led the Allied invasion of North Africa

Dwight Eisenhower

All Nisei unit most decorated military unit in US history

442nd regimental combat team

Energetic American officer

Dwight Eisenhower

Big three meeting to discuss postwar plans

Yalta conference

campaigned against discriminatory practices in the US

A Philip Randolph

Famous African American Squadron

Tuskegee Airmen

Accepting defeat without any concession

unconditional surrender

What is one result of WW2

colonial peoples renewed their drive for independence form European powers

Laws Hitler instituted that denied German citizenship to Jews, prohibited marriage between Jews and non Jews and segregated Jews in German society

Nuremberg Laws

One of the effects of the battle of bulge was that

Germany used its reserves and demoralizes its troops in battle

What impact did the appeasement policy have on German aggression

It encouraged more aggression

Why did Stalin want th allies to open a second front in France

He wanted Germany to divide its troops between two fronts