WWII Study For Test

Social Studies Review

What was the Allied Strategy in the Pacific known as?

Island Hopping

Who was the leader of Great Britain during WWII?

Winston Churchill

Where did the largest land-sea-air invasion in world history take place?

Normandy, France

Who was the dictator of the soviet union during WWII?

Josef Stalin

Where were Japanese and Japanese Americans were sent to during WWII?

Japanese Internment Camps

What year did WWII end?

1945

What made WWII more deadly than previous wars?

The technology of weaponry

Fascism ws a form of which government used by which dictator?

Benito Mussolini

Which of the folowing was not an Axis Power?

(A)Germany (B)Italy

(C Japan (D)Soviet Union

(D) - Soviet Union

The day that Japan officially surrendered is called?

V-J Day

Post WWII left tensions between……

The Allied Powers (US, GB, France) and Russia

The German-Soviet non-aggression pact allowed…..

Both Germany and Soviets to invade Poland

What secret research and development project in the us was used to create the atomic bomb?

Manhattan Project

Hitler, being against jews, is considered….?

Anti-Semitic

What did the Treaty of Versailles impose on Germany?

To take the blame, Pay reparations for damage, reduce military, take away their territories

Loyalty and Devotion to a nation

Nationalism

What word means the deliberate killing of a large group especially those of an ethnic party or nation

Genocide

The policy of forming and maintaining an empire, by establishing colonies and/or dominating the affairs of weaker nations

Imperialism

A close association of nations acting together for a common objective

Alliances

The Nazi program of exterminating jews under hitler

Holocaust

What type of combat has opposing troops fighting from trenches facing each other?

Trench Warfare

Why did Japan surrender in August 1945

The united states dropped an atomic bomb on Japan

What political system is based on an extreme national loyalty where the government controls the economy, culture, and all parts of people's lives, and is usually controlled by a dictator?

Fascism

Tojo Hideki was the military leader of what country?

Japan

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during WWII

Allied Powers

What event led tot he start of WWII?

Germany invading Poland

A state of extreme, aggressive military preparedness

Militarism

At first, Europeans gave in to Hitlers demands under what policy?

Appeasement

What country had Communism as their government?

Soviet Union (Russia)

What was the most often result of Trench Warfare?

Stalemates