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What were the two main causes of World War II?

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  1. Mistreatment of Germany in the Versailles treaty
  2. The rise of dictators in Europe
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The Great Depression began with what event?

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Stock Market crash on “Black Tuesday” - Oct 29 1929

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Name three extreme forms of government that arose in Europe before or after the Great Depression.

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  1. Communism
  2. Nazism
  3. Fascism
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What was the main factor that allowed these governments to come to power?

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The promise of prosperity and getting out of the depression.

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What 2 promises did Adolf Hitler give to the German people if they elected him?

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  1. Promises to get out of the depression.
  2. Promises revenge for German mistreatment in the Versailles Treaty.
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Name three beliefs these extreme governments shared in common.

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  1. Demanded fanatic loyalty to leader/country
  2. Totalitarian/police state
  3. Racism- superiority of their race.
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List six groups that the Nazis considered to be “undesirables”. and needed to be cleansed from Germany.

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  1. Jews
  2. Jehovah Witnesses
  3. Slavic people
  4. Disabled people
  5. Homosexuals
  6. Negros
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What was the League of Nations response to the aggressive actions of Japan, Italy, and Germany?

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They do nothing to stop them because of the fear of another world war.

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What event was used by Hitler as a “dress rehearsal for World War II?

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The Spanish Civil War

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Why did Great Britain and France “appease” or give in to Hitler’s demands at the Munich Pact?

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To avoid war

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Why were most German Jews refused asylum (entry)into countries during the 1930’s?

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Because the Great Depression was going on

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The ______ were a brainwashed group of German young people who were fanatically loyal to Adolf Hitler.

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HJ

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Whose country did Adolf Hitler consider a weak, “mongrel race”?

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America

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What country other than Germany was the only one that Hitler respected? Why did he respect this country?

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Great Britain because it had a great empire even though it is a small Island country

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Name the four major Allied Powers in World War II.

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  1. Great Britain
  2. France
  3. Soviet Union
  4. USA
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Name the three major Axis Powers in WWII.

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  1. Germany
  2. Japan
  3. Italy
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Was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union

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Operation Barbarossa

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Was the code name for D-Day, The Battle of Normandy

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Operation Overlord

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What were the three major results of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

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  1. USA enters WWII
  2. Unites the American people
  3. Internment Camps
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What reason did the US government give for putting Japanese-Americans into internment camps? What was the REAL REASON?

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National Security, but the real reason was Fear and Prejudice

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Means hatred of the Jews

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Antisemitism

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What were the Jews forced to wear to identify themselves to others?

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The Star of David

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Nazis political ideology was summarized in Adolf Hitler’s book

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Mein Kampf

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The_____ was a demilitarized “buffer zone” between Germany and France that was occupied by Hitler in 1936

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Rhineland

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What was the importance of the Battle of Britain
Boosted morale and showed that Hitler was not unstoppable
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The________ Airmen were the first black servicemen to serve as military pilots in World War II
Tuskegee Airmen
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What were the three major results of the Japanese attack on pearl Harbor?
1. USA enters WWII 2. Unites the American people 3. Internment Camps
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What reasons did the US government give for putting Japanese-Americans into internment camps? What was the REAL REASON?
Reason given was for national security but the real reason was fear and prejudice
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What 4 things did Hitler do in his "Final Solution" to rid Europe of the Jewish nation?
1. Immigration - make life hard for Jews so they leave. 2. Mobile Death Squad - make Jews dig trenches and kill them 3. Ghettos - Isolate and work with little food 4. Death Camps/Gas Chambers
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During the________, 16,000 Americans and Filipinos soldiers died on their way to a POW camp
Bataan Death March
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Name and give a brief description of the three different types of German concentration camps used in WWII
1. POW Camps - most survived 2. Work Camps - worked to death 3. Death Camps - to exterminate people
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Why did the United States decide to use the atomic bomb on Japan rather than to invade the country.
Because it would save lives compared to a n invasion
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List the results of World War II (6)
1. Approx. 70 million death 2. Europe in ruins - 30 million refugees 3. Cold war - US vs Soviet Union 4. Great Britain loses its empire 5. Nuclear Age 6. Creation of Israel
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Eva Braun
Hitler's mistress that became his wife
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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain
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James Doolittle
Commander of the Doolittle Raid
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Dwight Eisenhower
Commander of the European Theatre
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Charles de Gaulle
Led French government in exile
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Heinrich Himmler
Head of SS and in charge of the Holocaust
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Hideki Tojo
Militarist leader of Japan
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Hirohito
Japanese emperor
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Douglas MacArthur
Commander of the Pacific theatre
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Robert Oppenheimer
Chief scientist that worked on the Manhattan Project
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Erwin Rommel
German General known as the "Desert Fox"
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
US president during most of WWII
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Joseph Stalin
Dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II
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Paul Tibbets Jr.
Piloted the "Enola Gay" and dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima
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Harry Truman
President of USA after FDR dies
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Adolf Hitler
Leader of Nazi Germany
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German pastor that wrote "Cost of Discipleship"; helped Jews
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Corrie Ten Boom
Dutch Christian that wrote "The Hiding Place"; hid Jews
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Anne Frank
Jewish girl that wrote the "Diary of Anne Frank"
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Isoroku Yamamoto
Admiral of the Japanese Navy who plans the Pearl Harbor attack
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Auschwitz
Most infamous death camp in the Holocaust
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Blitz
Attack on London for 57 days and nights by the Germans
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Blitzkrieg
Lightning Warfare
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Bushido
Japanese code that says to fight to the death or commit suicide; never surrender
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Convoy
Group of ships sailing together for protection
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Dunkirk
A miraculous rescue of British and French armies
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Enola Gay
Plane that dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima
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Einsatzgruppen
Mobile death squads
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Hiroshima
The first Japanese city to be bombed with an atomic bomb: Little Boy
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Holocaust
The systemic mass slaughter of Jews and other undesirable groups
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Hitler Youth
German young people that are brainwashed into being fanatically loyal to Hitler and the Nazi party
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Island Hopping
America's strategy against Japan to get closer to them
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Kamikaze
Japanese suicide planes
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Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass"; organized massacre against Jews in Germany
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Lebensruam
Living space
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Lend Lease program
Lend or lease arms to any country vital to the defense of the USA.
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Manhattan Project
secret project of developing an atomic bomb
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Navaho
USA secret code
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Nisei
Japanese-Americans
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Nuremberg Laws
Anti-Jewish laws
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Pearl Harbor
Longest American naval bases
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Radar
This turned the tide of the Battle of Britain
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Swing Kids
German kids that wereinto American jazz music
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Third Reich
Nazi Germany
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Atlantic
The longest/continuous and pivotal battle of WWII because it was the suplly line of Great Britain from America
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Britain
Battle in which Hitler plans to invade Great Britain
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The Bulges
The great surprise; Hitler's last offensive of the war
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D-Day
Battle of Normandy; largest amphibious attack in history
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El Alamein
Key Allied victory in Africa because of oil
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Guadalcanal
USA's starting point to attack Japan; first island taken
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Iwo Jima
Battle in which 5 US soldiers raise the US flag on Mount Suribachi
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Leyte Gulf
Battle in which the Japanese navy was destroyed
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Midway
The battle where the US stops the invasion of Hawaii/coast of US by the Japanese
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Stalingrad
The battle that fought for control of the Russian oil fields
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China
The country that Japan first targeted
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Israel
Became a country after WWII
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Germany
Major Axis power that caused World War II
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Great Britain
Major Allied power in Europe that Hitler respects
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Italy
Fascist Axis Power
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Japan
Militarist Axis power
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Poland
World War II officially started when this country was invaded by Hitler/Germany
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Soviet Union
Communist Allied power
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USA
Allied power that was known as the "Arsenal of Democracy"

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