World War II and Division of Germany

President who asked that war be declared on Japan

Franklin Roosevelt

Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II

Winston Churchill

Military dictator of Japan during World War II

Hideki Tojo

Leader of Nazi Germany

Adolph Hitler

Admiral of the Allied Navy in the Pacific

Chester Nimitz

Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II

Joseph Stalin

Fascist leader of Italy during World War II

Benito Mussolini

Allied leader of Operation Overlord

Dwight D. Eisenhower

General of the Allied Army of the Pacific

Douglas MacArthur

How did the Treaty of Versailles create World War II?

Britain and France harshly punished Germany with reparations and guilt.

The North Africa Campaign

Operation Torch

The invasion of Sicily and Italy

Operation Husky

The invasion of Europe through Normandy, France

Operation Overlord

What event began World War II in Europe?

The German invasion of Poland

What was the Battle of the Bulge?

Germany's last attempt to regain territory

The Axis Powers

Germany, Italy, Japan

The killing of 6-10 million Jews in Nazi Germany

The Holocaust

What happened on June 6, 1944?

The invasion of Europe began at Normandy, France

The Allied military strategy of using one captured Pacific Island as a base to launch an attack on the next island.

Island Hopping

The name of the German Fascist party

National-Socialism

National-Socialist leader of Germany before and during World War II

Adolph Hitler

Militarist Leader of Japan before and during World War II

Hideki Tojo

Fascist leader of Italy before and during World War II

Benito Mussolini

Communist leader of the Soviet Union before and during World War II

Joseph Stalin

An economic system based on ownership of all property by the community as a whole

Communism

A political system based on the importance of the military and aggressive preparedness for war

Militarism

A political system based on extreme nationalism, a rigid one-party system, racism, and militarism

Fascism

What was a major cause of World War II?

Failures of the Treaty of Versailles

What four countries divided up Germany after World War II?

USA, Great Britain, France, USSR

What did the USA guarantee to the Japanese after World War II?

The US would protect Japan, militarily, if Japan was attacked.

A war of threats between the USA and the USSR

The Cold War

Stalin's attempt to drive the Allies out of Berlin once Germany was divided

The Berlin Blockade

The Allied response to Stalin's Berlin Blockade

The Berlin Airlift

The trials of the Nazi officials after World War II ended

The Nuremberg Trials

Genocide

The attempt to eliminate a segment of a country's population

National Socialism (Nazism)

Germany's form of Fascism

Hirohito

Emperor of Japan

Harry Truman

President who made the decision to use the atomic bomb

Put these in the correct order: . Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Allies invade Europe on D-Day, British forces driven out of France, Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

British forces driven out of France, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Allied invade Europe on D-Day, Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Battle of Britain

Battle between the Germans and the "last stronghold of democracy in Europe"

Armenian Genocide

the Turkish government organized the department of the armenians in the Ottoman Empire and over a million were murdered or starved - one of the first genocides of the 20th centuries

Cambodian Genocide

1975-1979 attempt to form Communist peasant farming society by Pol Pot, resulted in deaths by starvation, overwork, and executions.

Rwandan Genocide

The killing of more than 500,000 ethnic Tutsis by rival Hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994. The conflict between the dominant Tutsis and the majority Hutus had gone on for centuries, but the suddenness and savagery of the massacres caught the United Nations off-guard. U.N. peacekeepers did not enter the country until after much of the damage had been done.

Soviet Genocide

peasants, government and military leaders and member of the elite committed it under Jospeh Stalin, 7,000,000 dead

Bosnian Genocide

Between April 1992 and November 1995, Serbia set out to "ethnically cleanse" Bosnian territory by systematically killing Muslims and Croats.

United Nations

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

Douglas MacArthur

Accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and administered the ensuing Allied occupation and restructuring of the Japanese Constitution

The years of World War II

1939-1945

Blitzkrieg

The German military strategy during World War II

Battle of Britain

June-October of 1940, a massive air battle where the Luftwaffe bombed British cities and fought against the Royal Air Force (RAF)

Role of the British Empire during WW2

The British Empire supplied Great Britain with manpower, raw materials, land, and money. Great Britain exploited their Empire during the war by forcing soldiers from their colonies to fight in WW2, by forcing people from their colonies to work in factories, and by paying these people no money or less money than their British counterparts.

Fall of France

In June of 1940, Germany quickly defeats this Allied power after only 6 weeks.

Japanese Internment

Starting in 1942, the United States forcibly incarcerated around 120,000 Japanese people within the US out of a fear that there were Japanese spies within the population. Most of the Japanese who were imprisoned were American citizens.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

A military alliance between the United States and other western European democracies formed at the beginning of the Cold War to counter the Soviet threat.