Social Studies WW2 test Flashcards
FDR
Franklin Delanor Roosevelt President of the United States at the beginning of WW2.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
General who directed the Allied invasion of Europe
Harry Truman
US President who made the decision to drop the Atom bomb on Japan
Benito Mussolini
Head of Italy during World War Two
Joseph Stalin
Leader of Russia during World War Two
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Britain during ww2.
inflation
Rise in prices combined with a decrease in the value of money.
depression
an economic period when people lose jobs
fascism
idea that the govt is deemed more important than the individual people
Douglas MacArthur
US Army commander in the Pacific during WW2.
collectivization
combining small farms into large factory-like farms.
genocide
killing of an entire group of people
totalitarianism
political leaders try to totally control the way citizens think and live
appeasement
meeting another govts demands to avoid war
Concentration camps
places where people are imprisoned because of their heritage, political beliefs, or religious views
kristallnacht
night of shattered glass; Nov 9, 1938. Nazis burned synagogues, jewish shops and killed jews.
Battle of Britain
air battle lasting for months before Hitler gave up on plans to invade Britain. It was Germany’s attempt to control England and was an air battle in London.
Pearl Harbor
Dec 7, 1941, Japan bombs US Naval base in Hawaii, destroying most of the US Pacific fleet.
D Day
June 6, 1944. The day that the allied invasion of France began.
Nations that have fascists govts in the 1930s and 40s:
Japan, Germany, Italy
The African country taken over by Italy:
Ethiopia
Examples of how Hitler broke the treaty of Versailles:
builds new airforce
increased size of the army
sent troops to Rhineland in 1936 (invaded France)
Events that led to the outbreak of war in Europe:
March 1938- Hitler annexes Austria
Sep 1938- Britain and France give into Hitler’s demands for Sudetenland
Mar 1939- Hitler takes control of all of Cz
Britain promises to defend Poland from Hitler
Sep 1 1939- Hitler invades Poland, beginning WW2 in Europe;
Britain and France declare war
Blitzkrieg starts (the beginning of the Battle of Britain)
Poland falls in a month
April 1940- Germany enters France
June 1940- Paris falls
Battle of Britain began
the allies
US, Britain, France, China, and Russia
the axis powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
tehran conference
- FDR, Churchill, Stalin meet to make plans for post-war Europe. They agreed to divide Germany to monitor after the war.
Manhattan Project
Program to build the 1st atomic bomb
What cities were the bombs dropped on?(don’t have to know the dates)
Hiroshima Aug 6, 1945
Nagasaki Aug 9, 1945
The name of the US strategy for getting closer and closer to Japan
Island Hopping
Nuremburg trials
special war crimes trials that tried all the Nazi leaders. Took place in Nuremburg, Germany
Who/what did Hitler blame for Germany’s problems?
inflation, the great depression, jews, France, the treaty of versailles
What part of the govt took control of Japan in the early 1930s?
Japan’s military
Who signed a non-agression pact?
Russia and Germany, specifically Hitler and Stalin
the Holocaust
genocide of the jewish people
what happens to Hitler?
commits suicide
United Nations
organization to investigate and propose settlements to international problems
