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| This gave the U.S. the right to sell, lend, or lease military supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States". | The Lend Lease Act |
| These laws were passed in Nazi Germany in 1935 and they stripped Jews of their citizenship and forbidded Jews and Germans to marry. | Nurenburg Laws |
| The night of Nov. 9, 1938 when Nazi mobs attacked Jews throughout Austria and Germany. They smashed windows and burned down Jewish businesses and synagogues. | Kristallnact |
| Which country suffered the largest number of military casualties during WW2? | The Soviet Union |
| What were some reasons Germany wanted to invade the Soviet Union? | Natural Reasources, and living space |
| Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WW2? | Stalin |
| After taking Manchuria, Japan attacked the Chinese capital, killing thousands of civilians. What is this event known as? | The Rape of Manking |
| Where did Allied forces make a land-sea-air invasion on D-day? | The beaches of Normandy |
| Which U.S. President made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan? | Harry Truman |
| On which 2 Japanese cities was the atomic bomb dropped? | Nagasaki and Hiroshima |
| What was the name of the Italian dictator who ordered the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935? | Benito Mussolini |
| What policy did England and France initially adopted toward Hitler. It said that they were willing to compromise and to give into his demands in order to maintain the peace. | Appeasment |
| The agreement in which Hitler and Stalin agreed not to attack each other and to divide Poland. | The Non-Aggression Pact |
| "lightning war" and intensive attack combining land and air forces (Hitler ordered one on Poland.) | Blitz |
| What motivated Japan to invade China? | They wanted more natural reasources. |
| Germany's air war against Great Britian is known as? | Battle of Britian |
| These people in the U.S. favored forming no alliances and taking no sides during the war. They formed the Committee to Defend America First. | Isolationists |
| They believed the U.S. should give all possible aid to the allied forces short of war. | Interventions |
| In Oct. 1935 who did Italian armies invade? | Ethiopia |
| In March 1938 what did Hitler declare was a part of Germany? | Austria |
| In Sept. 1938 German armies occupied the Sudetenland region of what country? | Czechoslovakia |
| Hitler violated what pact in Jan. 1939 that said he wouldn't invade other parts of Czechoslovakia or Europe? | Munich Pact of Sept. 1938 |
| On Aug. 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a pact that said that Germany and the Soviet Union wouldn't attack each other. What was that pact called? | Non- Aggression Pact |
| What did Hitler and Stalin secretly agree to do? | Divide Poland between them. |
| On Sept. 23, 1939 Germany invaded what country? | Poland |
| What countries declared war on Germany 2 days after it invaded Poland? | England and France |
| Germany threatened to launch an assault against what city? ( They ended up being given the city.) | Paris, France |
| What are some reasons for the Japanese aggression? | 1. Japan desired to decrease dependency on foreign imports by aquiring new lands with natural reasources. 2. Japans military leaders had believed in and sought after horror through conquest. |
| What Chinese providence did Japan take over in the fall of 1931? | Manchuria |
| What 2 major Chinese cities did Japan attack in 1937? | Shanghai and Nanking |
| When were the neutrality acts passed by Congress? | 1935 and 1936 |
| What did the neutrality acts do? | 1. They prohibited the sale of American weapons to nations at war. 2. It required countries at war to pay cash when purchasing American products. (Including cotton and wheat.) |
| What did the British refuse to surrender to and they asked the U.S. for more aid? | Being bombed in the Battle of Britian. |
| We helped Britaian and made ourselves more prepared by doing what? | Transfering 50 old American destroyers to Britian. |
| What did FDR do to increase preparadness? | 1. Establishing the first peacetime draft. (Within the Selective Service Act.) 2. All men between ages 21 and 35 had to serve in the military for one year, but the Americans that were drafted could only serve in the Western Hemisphere. 3. Made the Lend Lease Act, which gave him the right to lend or lease supplies to other countries he thought were in need. 4. To make sure the supplies go where they needed to go, Navy ships tracked and destroyed German submarines that were gaurding British ships. |
| What was the massacure of about 6 million Jewish people during WW2 called? | The Holocaust |
| Besides Jewish people, who else did German's kill about 6 million of? | Gypsies, Soviet prisoners, political dissidents, disabled persons, and gay people. |
| Hitler had openly expressed hostility towards Jewish people as early as when? | The 1920's |
| What was Hitler's book called? | Mein Kempf |
| In Mein Kempf what did Hitler blame the plight of on at the endGermany of WW1? | A international Jewish conspiracy |
| What were some things that Hitler did to discriminate Jewish people? | Economic and political disenfrancisment, physical attacks, boycotts of Jewish owned businesses, etc... |
| What did the Nurenburg Laws do? | Stripped Jews of their civil rights by stating that only individuals of German blood could be citizens. (It also forbidded marriage between Jews and Germans.) |
| In Poland and other German ruled countries where were Jews forced to live in the late 40's? (They had to wear a yellow star of David for identification and were forced to do labor.) | Ghettos and camps |
| When did mass extermination begin? | 1941 |
| Concentration camp used what to kill people? | Poisen gas |
| What was the largest concentration camp? | Auschwitz (also know as Birkerau) |
| How many people were killed at Auschwitz? | About 1 million |
| How many Jewish refugees were allowed to enter the U.S. during the war? | 21,000 |
| Under exsisting immagration laws at that time a lot of people could have immagrated at that time. Of the Jews that did immagrate, what percentage of them did? | 10% |
| In June 1941 Germany attacked what country? | The Soviet Union |
| Why did Germany invade the Soviet Union? | Hitler wanted to gain control of Soviet oil and food reasources. He also wanted more living space for the German people. |
| What was the plan called that Germany had to take Moscow, Lenigrad, and Ukraine using 3 seperate army groups? | Operation Babarossa |
| How long was Lenigrad under seige? | For about 3 years |
| When winter set in, what was Hitler unable to take? | Moscow |
| When the Soviet Union was under attack by Germany, what did the U.S. extend to them? | Lend- lease |
| In Aug. 1941 FDR and Churchill met on a British battlehip off the coast of Newfoundlend. What was the statment they issued called? | Atlantic Charter (it described a post-war policy) |
| What did the Atlantic Charter do? | 1. It affirmed the right of all peoples to self-government. 2. It rejected and territorial acquistion as a result of the war. 3. It called for the destruction of Nazism. |
| In addition to China, what other places did Japan expand into? | French Indochina (present day Vietnam), Hong Kong, Thailand, The Dutch East Indies (present day Indonesia) |
| In Sept. 1940 who did Japan form an alliance with? | Italy and Germany |
| The U.S. placed an embargo on all products which had military uses to what country? | Japan |
| When did the bombing of Pearl Harbor happen? | December 7, 1941 around 8 am |
| How many Americans were killed? | 2,300 |
| FDR asked who to declare war on Japan the day after the bombing? | Congress |
| Who declared war on the U.S. four days after the bombing? | Germany and Italy |
| The Allies made the decisions to defeat what country first? | Germany |
| Stalin urges FDR and Churchill to invade Germany from where? | The West |
| Where did the Allies first invade Germany from? | Northern Africa |
| What place did the Germans attack in 1942 but fail to take? | Stalingrad |
| What was the day of June 6, 1944 called when Allied forces took the beaches of Normandy, France in a land-sea-air invasion? | D-day |
| Who was in commander of the troops that invaded the beaches of Normandy on D-day? | Dwight Eisenhower |
| When was Paris liberated? | August 25, 1944 |
| In early April of 1945, soviet armies marched toward where? | Berlin |
| How did Hitler die on April 30, 1945? | He committed suicide. |
| When did Germany surrender unconditionally? | May 8th, 1945 |
| American forces began to reverse the tide of Japanese expansion in what year? | 1942 |
| What was the U.S. military planners strategy to take Japan? | To take one Pacific Island at a time. |
| What did the Allies want to do to Japan in the way of supplies? | Surround Japan and cut it off from supplies. |
| American bombers began bombing what city in Japan in 1944? | Tokyo |
| What did the U.S. demand of Japan that they refused? | Uncondtional surrender |
| An invasion of Japan had been scheduled of later 1945 but President Harry Truman decided to do what instead? | Drop the atomic bomb |
| Where was the first bomb dropped on Aug. 6, 1945 | Hiroshima |
| Where was the second atomic bomb dropped? | Nagasaki |
| How many people were killed from the atomic bombs? | 240,000 |
| When did Japan surrender? | August 13, 1945 |
