world war 2 - history

What was the ultimate cause of WW2?

The treaty of versailles

Who was the leader of Italy?

Benito Mussolini

Why were german people angry after WW1?

Because they didnt know how they could have lost and were upset with the treaty

Who is the leader of the U.S.S.R?

Joseph Stalin

Which countries were part of the Axis powers?

Japan, Italy, Germany (JIG)

Who was the leader of Japan?

Hirohito

How did the German's violate the treaty of versailles?

By moving unto Rhineland

What was the first area Germany invaded?

Rhineland

A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war.

Appeasement

Why did the British prime minister Chamberlain and french premier Daladier propose a policy of appeasement to hitler?

To avoid war

When did Hitler come to power?

1933

Date of D-Day

June 6, 1944

Date of Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941

What was the nonaggression pact? Who was it between?

The nonaggression pact was an agreement made between Hitler and Stalin to not attack each other, so that they could take over Poland, and keep the peace with one another.

Blitzkrieg meaning

lightning war

Who was the British prime minister during the war?

Winston Churchill

What was the beach at France that was being invaded by Germany, but many escaped safely?

Dunkirk

What was Operation Overlord?

D-Day attack of Allied troops on the coast of German-occupied Normandy.

What was Operation Barbarossa?

German invasion of the Soviet Union, directly violating their nonaggression pact.

What were the neutrality acts?

Act passed that banned the U.S. from making loans or transporting goods to hostile countries

What was cash and carry?

allowed the United States to sell arms and other goods as long as nations paid cash and shipped the goods on their own vessels.

What cause the US to enter World War 2?

The attack on Pearl Harbour

Who was the Allied commander in Europe?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Who was the Allied Commander in the Pacific?

Douglas MacArthur

A symbol of working women in WW2

Rosie the Riveter

What was the battle that was the turning point in the Pacific?

Midway

How many aircraft carriers did japan lose?

4

Who were the Big Three?

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

What was the purpose of Yalta conference?

To discuss the future of Europe

What did the Yalta Conference decide?

That they would force Germany to surrender, germany would be divided into four zones, Great Britian, France, U.S., U.S.S.R., and so would Berlin be divided by the same countries. They discussed a need for an international peace keeping organization, which would become the united nations

How did the United Nations become an idea?

At the Yalta Conference

Who became president after FDR?

Harry S. Truman

What is V-E Day

Victory in Europe Day

What was the holocaust?

Hitler's systematic extermintation of over 6 million jewish people

Who was the leader of the Nazi SS

Heinrich Himmler

worst concentration camp

Auschwitz, poland

Trials held after the war to prosecute individuals for war crimes related to holcaust

Nuremberg trials

Why were internment camps established and who was sent there?

Japanese who lived on west coast or Hawaii sent here because they were assumed spies or loyal to Japan

Kamaikaze

Japanese suicide pilots

What was the secret plan to make atomic bombs called?

Manhattan Project

How many waves did Japan have prepared to fight?

3, but they only did 2

The first atomic bomb

Hiroshima (Little Boy)

The second atomic bomb

Nagasaki, Fat Man