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WWII Review

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JewI am one of a group of people targeted and nearly exterminated by Adolf Hitler.
Benito MussoliniI am the founder of fascism and the dictator of Italy during World War II.
Karl LuegerI am the German mayor who inspired Hitler.
Franklin RooseveltI am the American president who led the U.S. out of the Great Depression and through the majority of WWII.
General George PattonI am the American leader responsible for invading Northern Africa.
Harry TrumanI am the American president who ended WWII by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan.
Willard Van Orman QuineI am an American philosopher during WWII.
Joseph StalinI am the communist dictator of Russia who led the U.S.S.R. against the Axis Powers in WWII.
Winston ChurchillI am the Prime Minister of England who led Britain during WWII.
HirohitoI am the emperor who led Japan into WWII.
General RommelI am the German general who was responsible for taking over most of Northern Africa.
Neville ChamberlinI am the British prime minister who invented the policy of appeasement.
Robert OppenheimerI am the American scientist who led the effort to construct the first atomic weapon.
Dwight EisenhowerI am the American general in charge of U.S. troops in Europe during WWII.
Adolf HitlerI am the founder of Nazism and led Germany through WWII.
EthiopiaThe first African country freed by the British.
RhinelandA narrow strip of land that France lost to Germanybefore WWII.
SudetenlandA large portion of Czechoslovakia annexed by Adolf Hitler.
EgyptThe country in which General Rommel was stopped during Operation Torch.
RussiaWhere the German army met defeat as a result of the harsh winter conditions there.
Pearl HarborThe American naval instillation that was attacked by surprise on December 7, 1941.
PolandThe country Hitler invaded which began WWII in 1939.
HolocaustThe systematic, bureaucratic, state sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews.
AppeasementA British policy invented to give in to Hitler's demands in order to avoid war.
CollectivizationA Russian policy to take land and property so it could be shared by all.
Neutrality ActsAn American set of laws prohibiting the sale of arms or loans to any nations at war and meant to keep the U.S. out of war.
Lend Lease ActAn American law that allowed the U.S. to loan countries munitions and supplies during WWII.
NationalismAn extreme form of patriotism that has led many nations into war.
Munich AgreementHitler's pledge after taking the Sudentenland not to pursue more territory.
Kellogg-Briand PactA pledge by 61 nations not to go to war ever again signed after WWI.
Mein KamfHitler's book entitled, "My Struggle."
Yalta ConferenceThe meeting to end WWII by the "Big Three" -Churchill, Stalin, & FDR.
Manhattan ProjectThe American top-secret program to engineer the first atomic weapon.
Non-Agression PactAn agreement between Germany and Russia pledging not to attack one another.
BlitzkriegDirectly translates into "lightning war" and a new military strategy meant to overwhelm an opponent by using artillery, tanks, air force, etx. all at the same time.
LuftwaffeThe German air force.
G.I. Bill of RightsAn American law that provided educational & economic assistance to veterans.
Island HoppingThe U.S. plan to capture pacific territories.
United NationsAn international committee of countries working together to keep peace.
KamikazeJapanese suicide pilots.

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