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________ is a type of nationalism that puts the state above the individual.
fascism
________ is complete government control over citizens with no opposition.
totalitarian
________ is giving up principles to pacify an aggressor?
appeasement
________ is loyalty to one's country above all else.
Nationalism
The rise of dictators caused what?
economic depression and inflation
The U.S. attacks what countries before they attack Japan?
Germany and Italy
What as the Doolittle Raid?
Raid on Japan in 1942
What battle finished off the Japanese Navy?
Battle of Leyte Gulf
What battle was fought in the air and stopped the Japanese advance to Australia?
Battle of the Coral Sea
What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific where Japanese carriers sunk?
Battle of Midway
What bill gave free college education and federal loans to veterans?
G.I. Bill of Rights
What countries did Germany defeat in 1940 that were considered the stepping stone to England?
Denmark and Norway
What country did Germany take over in 1939?
Czechoslovakia
What day did Britain and France declare war on Germany?
September 3, 1939
What day did the war begin?
September 1, 1939
What day did the war end?
September 2, 1945
What did U-Boats travel in?
Wolf Packs
What event was caused by the tension between whites and minorities?
Detroit Race Riot
What forest did German tanks go through to attack France?
Ardennes Forest
What group helped the Allies, but never entered the war?
Great Arsenal of Democracy
What group of laws stripped Jews of citizenship, jobs, and property?
Nuremberg Laws
What happened when Austria wouldn't join Germany in 1938?
Anschluss
What is the "Final Solution" and the deliberate killing of an entire population?
Genocide
What is the name for a phony war with no active warfare?
Sitzkrieg
What is the name for intense fighting, lighting warfare, and mechanized warfare (planes, tanks, etc.)?
Blitzkrieg
What is the systematic murder of 11 million people for racial purity?
Holocaust
What kind of warfare was the Battle of Britain in 1940?
Air war
What made the U.S. stay out of world affairs?
isolationism
What name did Mussolini give himself?
Il Duce
What organization coordinated scientists, radar, etc.?
Office of Scientific Research and Development
What organization said which companies would switch from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials?
War Production Board
What piece of land was given to Germany under the Munich Agreement in 1938?
Sudetenland
What special force fought in the Battle of Britain?
Royal Air Force
What treaty made Germany the sole cause of WWI, took away their land, and made them a democracy?
Treaty of Versailles
What was a 1943 report on clearing out Jews from a newly conquered territory?
The Final Solution
What was France's defense line on the Rhine River?
Maginot Line
What was Germany's defense line on the Rhine River?
Siegfried Line
What was skipping some islands and only capturing the important one?
island hopping
What was the battle where the first land was retaken from Japanese?
Battle of Guadalcanal
What was the buying of rationed items illegally at inflated prices?
Black Market
What was the committee that allowed the banks and war material factories to make huge profits in WWI?
Nye Commission
What was the conference when terms were set to end the war?
Yalta Conference
What was the costly battle that took Japanese soil?
Battle of Okinawa
What was the famous battle where the U.S. flag was raised?
Iwo Jima
What was the formal alliance between Italy and Germany called?
Rome-Berlin Axis
What was the joint declaration of war aims between the U.S. and Britain?
Atlantic Charter
What was the last major German offensive of the war?
Battle of the Bulge
What was the most decorated unit in U.S. history?
Nisei Battalion
What was the mutual defense treaty between Germany, Italy, and Japan (Axis Powers)?
Tripartite Pact
What was the name for manufactures under the Nye Commission?
merchants of death
What was the name of the Nazi Police?
Gestapo
What was the night of broken glass when Jewish properties were attacked?
Kristallnacht
What was the program of buying U.S. arms as long as on own ship and paid cash?
Cash and Carry
What was the project to develop the atomic bomb?
Manhattan Project
What was the southern part of France with Petain at its head?
Vichy France
What was the Supreme Court Case that attempted to stop the confinement of Japanese in internment camps?
Korematsu vs. United States
What was the system of fixed allotments of goods and coupons?
Rationing
What was the turning point of the war in Africa?
El Alamein
What was the turning point of the war in Europe where the Germans surrendered in January, 1943?
Battle of Stalingrad
What was the unconditional surrender?
Casablanca Conference
What was U-Boat vs Allied shipping protection?
Battle of the Atlantic
What were the acts that had two parts that outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war and a third part that extended the ban to nations engaged in civil war?
Neutrality Acts
What were the attacks on Mexican-Americans by whites in Los Angeles, California called?
Zoot-Suit Riots
What were the four Death camps?
Chelmno, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau
What were the Jews forced to wear on their clothes?
Star of David
What were the names for the death squads who wore black uniforms? (SS)
Security Squadrons
What were the segregated Jewish areas in cities?
Ghettos
What were the two cities where war criminals were tried after WWII?
Tokyo and Nuremberg
What were the war crime trials for Nazi officials?
Nuremberg Trials
What wing of the Nazi army was Hitler's private defense?
Brown Shirts
What women's group held noncombat positions?
Women's Army Corps
When did Germany invade the Soviet Union and started a two front war?
June 1941
When did Italy surrender after Sicily is taken?
1943
When did Japan sign the peace treaty?
September 2, 1945
When did Pearl Harbor occur?
December 7, 1941
When did the U.S. send supplies to England and started to be not neutral?
1940
When did Tojo invade Manchuria?
1931
When is V-J Day (Victory in Japan Day)?
August 15, 1945
When was D-Day (Operation Overlord)?
June 6, 1944
When was France defeated?
1940
When was the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
August, 1945
When was V-E Day (victory in Europe Day)?
May 8, 1945
When were the French and British troops saved by seaport allies?
Dunkirk
Where did the Bataan Death March occur?
the Philippines
Where did the U.S. send Japanese-Americans?
internment camps
Where was the Allies first attack?
Africa
Where was the Germany military built up and moved to in 1935?
Rhineland and Ruhr
Who became the prime minister of England after WWII began?
Churchill
Who did FDR beat in the 1940 election?
Wilkie
Who did Italy declare war on in 1940?
France and England
Who froze the prices on most goods and raised income tax rates and more people had to pay?
Office of Price Administration
Who hated the Jews?
Antisemitic
Who issued an executive order to let all workers participate in defense industries without discrimination?
FDR
Who made the film "The Desert Fox"?
Rommel
Who signed a nonaggression pact to avoid a two front war?
Soviet Union and Germany
Who was a fascist leader during the Spanish Civil War?
Franco
Who was given aid because no war was declared?
China
Who was head of the Free French?
de Gaulle
Who was Mussolini's private army?
Black Shirts
Who was the Allied tank commander?
Patton
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