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| Fascism was an aggressive form of nationalism that emphasized the supreme importance of individualism & free enterprise. True/False | False. Emphasized the state over the individual |
| The ____ Act of 1935 made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to countries at war | Neutrality |
| The Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941 that led to the US entry into WWII occurred where? | Pearl Harbor |
| In September 1939, Germany invaded Russia, leading to declarations of war by Britain & France. True/False | False. they invaded Poland |
| FDR supported _________, the idea that trade between nations prevents war | internationalism |
| On D-Day, the Allies met the most resistance at which beach? | Omaha |
| Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps were finally defeated for good at the battle of | El Alamein |
| By 1932, the Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag, the lower house of the German parliament. True/False | True |
| This allowed US to send weapons to Britain if Britain paid rent or returned them after the war | Lend Lease Act |
| Yugoslavia was liberated when ____ and his partisans defeated the Nazis & Chetniks using guerrilla warfare | Tito |
| The German air force in WWII was called the | Luftwaffe |
| At the Munich Conference, Britain & France informed Czechoslovakia’s leaders that they must give up the Sudetenland. True/False | True |
| FDR & Churchill came to an agreement on postwar democracy & free trade called the | Atlantic Charter |
| Who revoked landing certificates for those aboard the St Louis. | Cuba |
| The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was the | Enola Gay |
| The secret American program to build the atomic bomb was called | Manhattan project |
| Extermination camp where 1,600,000 people died | Auschwitz |
| The Nazis secret police | Gestapo |
| Iwo Jima was an important objective for the American military because | US planes could bomb Japan from there. |
| Mobilizing the American economy for WWII created 19million new jobs and | ended the Great Depression |
| Why was the Battle of Stalingrad important? | It put the Germans on the defensive for the rest of the war |
| The last, desperate German offensive of the war became known as | Battle of the Bulge |
| Took citizenship away from German Jews | Nuremberg Laws |
| Word meaning unification, it described Germans annexation of Austria | anschluss |
| Invading Iwo Jima proved difficult because of the island’s rugged terrain and | underground bunkers |
| The Germans goal at The Battle of the Bulge was to cut Allied supplies coming through the port of | Antwerp |
| At the Tehran Conference, the Allies agreed to | helping to fight Japan after Germany was defeated |
| Capturing Stalingrad was the key to Hitler’s strategy to | destroy the Soviet economy |
| Fascist leader who established a dictatorship in Italy | Benito Mussolini |
| Policy that stopped fuel sales & scrap iron from the US to Japan | embargo |
| British prime minister who promised “peace for our time” | Neville Chamberlain |
| Symbol of the campaign to hire women in WWII | Rosie the Riveter |
| The key to American success at Midway was | breaking the Japanese naval codes |
| Why were the Japanese unable to decipher the messages of the Navajo code talkers? | They used the Navajo language which had no written form |
| On April 18, 1942, US bombs fell on Japan for the 1st time when US carriers short-range bombers were replaced with | B-25 bombers |
| The Pittsburgh Courier argued that African Americans should join the war effort to achieve victory over Hitler’s racism & over racism at home, a campaign called | the double V |
| Victory in this battle kept American supply lines to Australia open | The Coral Sea |
| This battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific | Midway |
| Overall Allied commander for the invasion of France | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Area of France where the Allied invasion force landed | Normandy |
| Led the American team of scientists building the atomic bomb | Robert Oppenheimer |
| The belief by many Americans who wanted to avoid involvement in international conflicts | isolationism |
| In 1934, the Nye Committee report indicated that America’s entry into WWI was influenced by | US arms manufacturers |
| At the Munich Conference, Britain & France | gave in to Hitler's demands |
| 2 major causes of the rise of dictators after WWI were | treaty of versailles and economic depression |
| Commander of the US Navy in the Pacific | Admiral Chester Nimitz |
| American general who said, “I shall return” when evacuating the Philippines | Douglas MacArthur |
| American general who helped turn the German lines back in the Battle of the Bulge | George S. Patton |
| Highest ranking African American officer in the US military | Benjamin O. Davis Sr. |
| The Final Solution was the Nazi plan to | exterminate European Jews |
| What event in 1938 that marked a significant escalation of the Nazi persecution of the Jews? | Kristallnacht |
| The Nazis reserved their hatred for Jews, homosexuals, the disabled, Gypsies and | Slavs |
| Mussolini exploited the public’s fears by portraying fascism as a bulwark against | Communism |
| Many military leaders in Japan believed they were destined to dominate | East Asia |
| At 1st, Britain & France gave in to Hitler’s demands, a policy known as | appeasement |
| The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact provided for the division of | Poland |
| Essays: What were 2 factors in the British victory in the Battle of Britain and what, in your opinion, would have happened had they lost? | + |
| Essays:Describe the “Miracle of Dunkirk” including Hitler’s crucial mistake | + |
