World War 2 Flashcards
Name the dictators who rose to power in Italy and the Soviet Union in the 1920s and in Germany in the 1930s.
Mussolini, Stalin, and Adolf hitler
What African nation did Italy conquer in the 1930s?
Ethiopia
What was Anschluss?
Union of Germany and Austria
What nation was forced to surrender one region of its land to Germany at the Munich Conference? What was the name of that region?
Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland
Place the following nations in the proper chronological order in which they fell to Germany: Belgium, Denmark, France, Norway, Poland.
Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France
What three forces kept the United States out of the war until late 1941?
Isolationist sentiment, resentment over war debts, focused on domestic rather than international concerns
Who was one of the leading spokesmen for the isolationist America First committees?
Charles lieudbiergh
What three actions did FDR take in response to Japan’s seizure of French Indochina?
Oil Embargo on Japan, froze Japan’s assets, placed all his forces in Far East under the command of general MacArthur
What was the turning point of the Pacific war?
The battle of midway
What action did several states take during World War II to conserve gasoline?
They set a speed limit of 35 miles per hour, it was called “victory speed”
What was the first military operation of World War II in which the United States took part?
Operation torch
At their conference at Casablanca, where did FDR and Churchill agree to open another front against the Axis?
Italy
In what region of France did the landings in Operation Over- lord take place?
Normandy
What battle resulted from Hitler’s last gamble to win the war in the West?
Battle of the bulge
Who was the military commander of each of the two prongs of the Allied attack in the Pacific war?
General Douglas MacArthur, admiral Chester Nimitz
