World War II Flashcards
Axis Powers?
Japan, Italy, Germany
As European tensions worsened, Congress passed the _________________ , continuing the ban on selling arms to warring nations and requiring them to buy all non-military supplies from the US on a “cash and carry” basis.
Neutrality Act of 1937
In 1940, FDR listed the Four Freedoms that the US and Britain stood for:
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Worship
Freedom from Want
Freedom of Fear
The _______________report documented the huge profits that arms factories had made during the war and had created the impression that these businesses influenced the decision to go to war.
Nye Committee
In 1934, Senator _____________ held hearings to investigate these allegations.
Gerald P. Nye
When did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
December 7th, 1941.
Committed both nations to a post world war and democracy, non-aggression, free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas.
Atlantic Charter
Who developed the Atlantic Charter?
Roosevelt and Churchill
The __________ ________ ____ declared that the entire western half of the Atlantic was apart of the Western Hemisphere and therefore neutral.
Hemispheric Defense Zone
The _____ ___ _______ _________ wanted the repeal for neutrality laws and stronger action against Germany.
Fight for Freedom Committee
Allowed the US to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the united states”.
Lend-Lease Act
Took the title of iL Duce
Mussolini
Hitler ordered the German air force, ________, to begin attacking British ships in the English Channel.
Luftwaffe
________ used massed tanks, combined with waves of aircraft and paratroopers, to break through and encircle enemy positions.
Blitzkrieg
The Germans crossed the __________ ___________ __ _________ and eastern Belgium and smashed the British and French troops waiting on them.
Ardennes Mountains of Luxemburg
At the ______ ________ ,on September 29, 1938, Britain and France agreed to Hitler’s demands, a policy that became known as appeasement.
Munich Conference
_________ was an aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual.
Fascism
He was backed by the ___________ , a Fascist militia.
Blackshirts
What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
After Lenin died in 1924, ______ ______ came to power.
Joseph Stalin
What does Nazi stand for ?
National Socialist German Worker’s Party
The Nazi party was known to be ____ _______.
Anti-Semetic.
Government owned farms?
Collectives
What was Hitler’s book?
Mein Kampf
What race did Hitler believe was the “master race”?
Aryans.
He then have himself the new title of ___ ______, or “The Leader”
Der Fuhrer
Fascism was also strongly ____ _________.
Anti-Communist.
Japanese Prime Minister?
Hirohito
Japanese Minister of War?
Tojo
Who founded Italy’s fascist movement?
Mussolini
He focused on getting Nazis elected to the _________ , the lower house of the German Parliament.
Reichstag
In 1931, Japan invaded the resource-rich region, _________ ______
Manchuria, China
The invasion of Nanking became known as the ____ __ _______.
Rape of Nanking
________ became independent in name, but it was under German control.
Slovakia
On ________ __, Germany and Italy both declared on the United States.
December 11th.
The Hebrew term for Holocaust is _____ , meaning “catastrophe”
Shoah
On January 20, 1942, Nazi leaders met at the ______ __________ and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans.
Wansee Conference
_____________ _____ were where men, women, and children were sent to be executed.
Extermination Camps
_____________ _____ was a camp where persons are detained or confined.
Concentration Camps
___ _________ was the mass extermination of millions of European Jews
The Holocaust
Hitler underestimated the strategy of the US, which was to view Germany as the larger threat but fight the Japanese with the __ ____
U.S. Navy
The Senate voted __ to _ and the House voted ___ to _ declare war on Japan.
82 to 0
388 to 1
Roosevelt sent _________ to the Philippines.
MacArthur
_________ _________ were materials important for fighting a war.
Strategic materials.
Japan depended on the US for many key materials, including _____ ____, _____, and ___.
scrap iron, steel, and oil
___ ________ _____ _________ opposed any intervention to help the allies.
The American First Committee.
June 4, and estimated 338k British and French troops had been saved during the _______ __ ______
Miracle at Dunkirk
