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| In 1939, the nations known as the Allied Powers were | Britain, France |
| December 8, 1941 which country joined the allied powers? | United States |
| What event caused the US to join the Allies? | Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on 12/7/1941. |
| When the US declared war on Japan, who declared war on the US? | Germany |
| In 1939, the nations who were part of the Axis powers were: | Germany & Japan, Italy Italy and Japan |
| In 1944 the nations who were part of the Axis powers were: | Germany & Japan, Italy surrendered & joined the Allies. |
| WW II began on 9-1-1939 when: | Germany invaded Poland even though Hitler promised he would not invade Poland. |
| Prior to 9-1-1939, the countries of the world had appeased Hitler by: | Allowing him to take over countries in Europe with the understanding that he would stop. |
| The Battle of Britain describes the battle betweenthe: | British & German air forces for air supreacy over Europe. |
| To pay for the war, the US government: | Raised taxes and sold war bonds. |
| The War Production Board was in charge of: | Converting factories to war production. Automobile factories began manufacturing tanks & jeeps. |
| As men left the workforce to join the armed forces: | Women replaced them in the factories & business offices (Rosie the Riveter). |
| Who was Hideki Tojo? | Prime Minister of Japan |
| Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt? | President of the US until April 1945 |
| Who was Joseph Stalin? | Leader of Russia (Soviet Union). |
| Who was Bonito Mussolini? | Dictator of Italy |
| Who was Harry S. Truman? | President of the US when FD Roosevelt died. |
| Who was General Dwight Eisenhower? | General in charge of the invasion of Normandy France on D-Day (Operation Overlord). He was elected President of the US after Truman. |
| Who was General Douglas McArthur? | Leader of the US forces in the Pacific theatre. |
| Who was General George Patton? | US general who lead troops in central Europe. |
| Japan formally surrendered to the US on: | 9-2-1945 |
| Under internment, the US government removed most Japanese Americans from the West Coast & transported them to: | Internment camps throughout the western US. |
| When the US government removed the Japanese, they were forced to: | give up their homes & businesses. The Japanese later received $20,000 for their losses. |
| Jews arriving at Nazi death camps across Europe were sent to: | Work as slave laborer in camp factories or were executed in jas chambers. |
| The purpose of Operation Overlord (D-Day, invasion of Mormandy) was to: | Launch an Allied invasion of German-occupied France & begin reclaiming Europe from the Nazis. |
| Allied troops advanced toward Japan using the strategy of : | Island hopping. They captured each island in the Pacific that Japan occupied in order to get to Japan. |
| Germany & russia both invaded Polandin 1939. Why? | Germany had signed a non-aggression agreement with Russia. Russia agreed not to attach Germany when they invaded Poland in exchange for Russia being able to invade Poland in exchange for Russia being able to invade Poland from the east. Germany & Russia would divide Poland. This worked until Germany decided to invade Russia for the natural resources. |
| Of the nearly 16 million Americans who seved in the military during WW II, about how many were African Americans? | 1 million were African Americans who were not allowed to serve in combat positions until near the end of the war. The significant role the African Americans played in WW II did not stop discrimination against them. |
| During the Holocaust the Nazi's killed how many Jews and Gypsies & "undesirables"? | 6 millions Jews & 5 million gypsies & other "undesirables" were killed. |
| What were the causes of WW II? | World wide economic depression, the failure of the Treaty of Versailles, high inflation, & massive unemployment. |
| A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator & individual freedoms are denied is: | Fascism |
| The US aided the Allies & China during WW II before they entered the war by enacting: | Lend-lease program. They loaned or leased armaments & war supplies to the Allies and China on a cash & carry basis. The US remained neutral from 1939- 12/1941. |
| The powerful secret weapon known as the Manhattan Project that the US developed during WW II was: | The atomic bomb whidh was dropped on the cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in Japan. |
| Anti-Semitism & Aryan supremacy are words that describe: | Nazi attitude toward humankind. They felt that Semantic people or Jews were inferior and the Aryan Race or white, blonde hair people with blue eyes were superior. |
| The Nazi's mistreated the Jewish population in Europe by: | Boycotting their businesses and eventually closing their businesses, threatening their lives, discriminating against them & segregation them from society. The Final Solution eventually led to the murder of 6 million Jews & 5 million other people. |
| The 3 theatres of war during WW II were: | European Theatre, Pacific Theatre, & North Africa Theatre |
| What were the technological advances that were developed in WW II? | DD T a pesticide used to kill mosquitoes, nylon used to replace silk to make parachutes, penicillin an antibiotic was used to prevent infections & save lives. span, a canned meat was used to feed soldiers, radar, atomic bomb, & computers. |
| Most Americans responded to Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939 & the declaration of war in Europe by: | Americans wanted to remain neutral, staying out of the war and not reliving the horrors of WW I. |
| In 1945, the war ended. What was the sequence of significant events? | Hitler committed suicide, the US dropped 2 atomic bombs, Japan surrendered. |
| Which famous battle fought on Russian soil halted the German advance in WW II & was the turning poing for the war in Eastern Europe? | Stalingrad |
| The largest amphibious invasion in the history of the world which was the turning point of the war in western Europe when the Allies began the assault on Germany that eventually reclaimed Europe was: | The invasion of Normandy also known as D-Day & Operation Overlord. |
| The turning point of the was in the Pacific when the Americans began defeating the Japanese was: | The Battle of Midway. |
| President Truman defended his decision to drop the A-bomb by arguing that it would: | Avoid huge US troop casualities & shorten the war. |
| The primary motive of all the Axis powers for conquering territories and establishing an empire was to: | Gain land that was rich in natural resorces, especially fossil fuels |
| US citizens at home did their part by: | Rationing sugar and meat; recycling fats and metals; women went to work in the factories; growing victory garden; buying war bonds. |
| Georgraphy played a major role in WW II for example: | The US was never invaded because it was an ocean away. Great Britain's location on an island prevented the Nazi's from successfuly invading the country by land, the flat cold plains in russia helped to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad, Japan's location on an island made it difficult to invade. The countries of Switzerland and Spain remained neutral due to mountain ranges. |
| The US lost many ships in the pacific due to: | Japanese Kamikaze pilots (suicide bombers) directly hitting the ships by piloting their planes into the ships. |
| WW II was the first war that was fought in the air. Examples of how air power was used is in: | The Battle of Britain, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Enola Gay dropping the atomic bomb. |
| The US was the main allied power that fought Japan in the Pacific. The Japanese: | Mistreated US prisoners by starvation & torture. |
| The US was in WW II from: | December 1941 until August 1945. |
| More Jews were exterminated in: | Poland than any other country in Europe. |
| WW II cost more lives than any war in history, a total of | 59.5 million people died (8.7 million were military perxonnel, 40.8 million were civilians (11 million killed during the Holocaust Russia (USSR) lost 25.5 million, China lost 11.3 million, Germany lost 7 million, Poland lost 6.8 million, USA lost 300,000.) |
