Two World Wars Flashcards
President ____________ called December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.”
Franklin Roosevelt
The Triple __________ included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
Alliance
The Triple _________ consisted of England, France, and Russia.
Entente
When the Germans violated Belgium’s ___________ Great Britain declared war on Germany.
Neutrality
The two side of World War 1 were the Central Powers and the _________ Powers.
Allied
The United States did not declare war on Germany until nearly two years after the sinking of ___________.
Lusitania
_____________ commanded the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War 1.
General Pershing
President _____________ presented his Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference, the last which proposed a League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson
The 1920s, known as the “roaring twenties,” brought back the _________ in American society.
Change
Women gained the right to vote with the ___________ Amendment.
Nineteenth
The __________ Amendment instituted national prohibition.
Eighteenth
The ___________ Amendment repealed prohibition.
Twenty-first
_______________ made the first nonstop, solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927.
Charles Lindbergh
_______________ was President of the United States when the Great Depression took place.
Herbert Hoover
__________ wanted to exterminate all the Jews because he thought they were responsible for all the problems in Germany and because they were not members of the “master race.”
Adolf Hitler
____________, led the Fascists Party in Italy.
Benito Mussolini
_____________ was the British Prime Minister who signed the Munich Pact.
Neville Chamberlain
___________ officially began when Germany invaded Poland.
World War 2
Allied troops were rescued from the French beaches of ____________ in 1940.
Dunkirk
_____________ was British Prime Minister during the Battle of Britain.
Winston Churchill
The Russian victory at ___________ was the turning point of World War 2 in Europe.
Stalingrad
Japan attacked United States warships at Pearl Harbor on what date?
December 7, 1941
On _____________, Congress officially declared war on the Axis Powers.
December 8, 1941
The turning point of World War 2 in the Pacific was at _____________.
Midway Island
General ___________ led the Allied Forces in the Pacific.
Douglas MacArthur
General ___________ led the D-Day invasion of Europe.
Dwight Eisenhower
General _____________ led Allied troops at the “Battle of the Bulge.”
George Patton
Germany surrendered on ___________.
May 8, 1945
J. Gresham Machen led conservative faculty members who left __________ and formed Westminster Seminary.
Princeton
