World War II Flashcards
Leader of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
The United States entered World War II after Japan attacked a naval base in
Hawaii
Japan began it’s policy of expansion by invading..
China
Even before entering the war, the United States gave aid to..
Great Britain
The Battle of Britain forced Germany to abandon…
plans to invade Britain
appeasement
Giving into aggression to avoid war.
Who made up the Allied Powers?
England, United States, France, China
The mass slaughter of Jews in Europe is known as…
The Holocaust
Define aggression.
Warlike act by one country against another one without just cause.
Define scapegoat.
a person or group on whom to blame their problems.
Define fascism.
rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism and blind loyalty to the state.
Leader of Italy.
Benito Mussolini
FDR withdrew American troops from Nicaragua and Haiti and canceled the Platt Amendment. Which isolationist policy is this an example of?
Good Neighbor Policy
Define Neutrality Acts.
Banned arms sales or loans to countries at war. Warned Americans not to travel on ships of countries at war.
Which countries made up the Axis Powers?
Germany, Italy, Japan, early in the war the Soviet Union
Nazi-Soviet Pact.
Agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union not to attack each other. They also agreed to divide up Poland.
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed the sales or loans of war materials to “any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.”
Which fictional factory worker became a symbol of American women’s contribution to the war effort?
Rosie the Riveter
How did the Allies open up a second front in Europe?
by staging the D-Day invasion off the coast of Normandy
What was the U.S. strategy in the Pacific that involved American forces capturing Japanese-held islands and going around others?
island-hopping
Who did the U.S. use in the Pacific so that the Japanese would not understand their radio messages?
Navajo code-talkers
What was the name given to Japanese pilots that executed suicide missions?
kamikaze
What was the name of the warning given to the Japanese of the Atomic Bomb, surrender or face destruction?
Potsdam Declaration
What was the name given to the brutal treatment of prisoners in the Philippines?
Bataan Death March
