World War Flashcards
Leader of Britain
Churchill
Leader of Germany
Hitler
Leader of Italy
Mussolini
What was fascism
Rooted in extreme nationalism militarism and imperialism
What is a totalitarian state
A single party controls the government every aspect of peoples lives
What happened to Ethiopia when Mussolini became aggressive
They asked the league of Nations for help and they responded weakly
Who were the Nazis
The Nationalist Socialist German workers party
Who brought the Nazis to power
Hitler
Who did Hitler blamed for Germany’s troubles
Jews and other traitors
What did Hitler control in Germany
The German government
What were Jews rounded up and placed in
Concentration camps
Who all was put in concentration camps
Jews,gypsies, Slavs
What was the Platt amendment
Limited the independence of Cuba
What is a blitzkrieg
A lightning war
What is appeasement
The practice of giving into aggression in order to avoid war
Did the Japanese and Chinese people get along
No
Did Japan attack China
Yes they bombed China
Allied powers
United States Britain France Soviet union France China
Axis power
Germany Italy Japan Romania Hungary
did Poland surrender to the Nazis
Yes
What happened at the attack of Pearl Harbor
June 7
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and killed about 2400 people, dropped bombs from planes
Many injured \ killed
What happened at the battle of Britain
German planes bombed London and many other cities
How did President Roosevelt support allies
He asked Congress to repeal the neutrality law and he gave Britain 50 old American destroyers (ships)
What is the land lending lease act
Allowed sales and lows of woman tale to any country he’s Defence the president deems vital to the defense oft he US
What was the war production Board
Helped factories shift frim making consumer goods to making guns, ships, Aircrafts and other materials
What is a victory garden
Gardens to combat food shortages
How did women contribute to the war effort
Almost 5,000,000 entered the workforce in and replaced men who joined Armed Forces
Who was Rosie the riveter
A symbolic fictional factory worker, a symbol of American women’s contribution to the war effort
What was the double V campaign
Victory over the enemy abroad and victory over discrimination at home
Who were the Tuskegee airmen
African American fighter pilots that trained at Tuskegee, Alabama
What was the impact of sub Marines
They sunk ships faster than the allies could
Who commanded the US forces in the Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
What happened at the battle of Midway
U.S. Navy sinks four Japanese aircraft carriers and destroys hundreds of airplanes: major Japanese offensive is turned back
Who commanded the American forces in the northern Africa
Dwight D Eisenhower
Omar Bradley
George S Patton
What happened at D-Day
Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy and go onto free France from Germany control
Who was president after FDR
Harry S Truman
What was Allies VE day in Europe
Their victory of Europe
Who were Navajo code talkers
Navajo soldiers made their own language
What happened to hiroshima on August 6, 1945
American bombers dropped an atomic bomb on Japan
What was a kamikaze pilot
A pilot who intentionally killed themselves. They loaded old planes w bombs and then deliberately crashed them and Allied ships
What was VJ day
Victory of Japan
What was the holocaust
More than 6 million Jews were tortured or murdered
What happened at the Nuremberg trials
12 Nazi leaders were sentenced death thousands were imprisoned
What is the timeline of World War II
1931 to 1945
Leader of Soviet union
Stalin
