| A | B |
|---|
| Hitler and Stalin signed | non-aggression pact |
| WWII begins with invasion of | Poland |
| Nurmeberg | war crime trials |
| "scorched earth" | destroying anything of use |
| D Day | massive attack in Normandy-France |
| Harry Truman represented U.S at | Potsdam |
| facist advocated | totalitarianism, single party, nationalism |
| allow Nazis power to rise | Great Depression |
| Nremberg Laws | stripped Jews of rights |
| why U.S. doesn't join League | don't want to be involved in foreign affairs |
| causes of WWII | imperialism, failure of League,failure of agreements |
| impacts of depression | bank fail, no credit, high unemployment |
| Mussolini invades Ethipia | to prove Italy a world power |
| exterminated by Nazis | Jews, Slavs, Gypsies |
| policy of "appeasing" | British Prime Minister-Chamberlain |
| League takes actions against Italy | prohibiting the sale of weapons |
| consequences of stock market crash | prices/wages fall,unemployment,banks fail |
| Legue condemned Japan | Japan withdrawls from League |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Nationalist movement in China |
| blitzkrieg | lightening wars |
| blitzkrieg first used in | Poland |
| Hitler believed in | a master race |
| U.S. drops atomic bombs on | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| president during most of war | Franklin Roosevelt |
| President who drops bombs | Harry Truman |
| reason Truman becomes President | Franklin Roosevelt dies |
| president during WWI | Wilson |
| new military equipment in WWI | submarines |
| leader of National Socialist party | Hitler |
| places where genocide have taken place | Rwanda, Bosnia and Kososvo |
| critical new naval weapon of WWII | aircraft carrier |
| total war refers to | mobilizing all economic and human resources |
| U.S. strategy for defeating Japan | recapture one island or island group at a time |
| main purpose of meeting at Yalta | reach agreement of United Nations |
| Japan first invaded | Manchuria |
| during start of WWII, U.S. | tried to remain neutral |
| Great Britain, Russia and France | allies-WWII |
| Germany, Italy and Japan | axis powers-WWII |
| Zimmerman note | WWI letter to Mexico from Germany |
| Lusitania | cruise ship sunk-WWI |
| elements leading to Holocaust | "Kristallnacht", master race, final solution |
| kamikaze pilots | suicide pilots |
| Lend-Lease Act | Arsenal of Democracy |
| Lenin | "father of communism" |
| Stalin | leader of Russia WWII |
| Russian Revolution | 1917 |
| WWI begins | 1914 |
| U.S. enters WWI | 1917 |
| WWI ends | 1918 |
| WWII begins | 1939 |
| U.S. enters WWII | 1941 |
| WWII ends | 1945 |
| VE Day | victory in Europe |
| victory in Japan | VJ Day |
