Review Flashcards
Dec 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
June 6 1944
D-Day
Aug 6 & 9 1945
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was “The Great Depression”?
Stock market crashed
Inflation
More money is printed and value goes down
Totalitarian
Government controls everything
Dictatorship
One person in control
Fascist leader of Italy
Mussolini
Fascism
Nationalism, power to country, state above individual.
Hitler’s party
Nazism
Mein Kampf
Master race and inferior race; written by Hitler
Non-aggression pact
Germany and soviets will not fight
Blitzkrieg
Lighting war. Fast attacks that never stop coming
President of US during most of WWII
FDR
President of US at end of WWII
Truman
Dictator of Soviets during WWII
Stalin
Dictator of Italy during WWII
Mussolini
Britain before WWII
Churchill
Britain during WWII
Chamberlain
Axis
Germany Italy and Japan
Allied
Britain France and Soviets
Battle of Britain
Aircraft battle; Britain never gave up
Cut of trades to Japan
Oil
U.S. Used to attack Japan
Island hopping
Manhattan project
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sep 1, 1939
Blitzkrieg hits Poland