WW2

Question 1

Totalltarism

Answer 1

Someone controls everything, politicss economy, culture, and media

Question 2

Appeasement

Answer 2

Give someone what they want to avoid war

Question 3

Fascism

Answer 3

A political movement that stressed extreme nationalism and autocratic rule

Question 4

Mein Kampf

Answer 4

Book he wrote that promised solidarity stability Good economy, German empire

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Axis Powers

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Group of counties led by Germany, italy, and Japan

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Isolationism

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A policy of remaining apart from affairs or interests of other groups the especially political affairs of other countries

Question 7

Neutrality acts of 1939

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Act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the US If they paid cash and carried merchandise on their own snips

Question 8

Selective service

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Trained 1.2 million active troops
800,000 reserves

Question 9

War production board

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Factory conversion

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Non aggression pact

Answer 10

Nazi/soviet union agreed on no aggression, and to divide Poland

Question 11

Atlantic Charter

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Churchill and FDR 41’
Pact signed by great Britain and the US that endorsed certain principals for building a lasting peace and establishing free gov in the world

Question 12

Strategic bombing

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Dropping bombs on political/ industrial targets

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Tuskegee airman

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. African saudron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe

Question 14

America first committee

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’ Charles Lindbergh congress against American involvement

Question 15

Kamikaze

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Japanese pilots who deliberate crashed planes into American ships

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Executive order 9066

Answer 16

Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.

Question 17

Potsdam conference

Answer 17

Big 3
Division of Germany (4 zones)
Free elections
USSR would help defeat Japan

Question 18

Office of price administration

Answer 18

The OPA’s main responsibility was to place a ceiling on prices of most goods, and to limit consumption by rationing

Question 19

War bond

Answer 19

Bond bought to fund a war effort, redeemable for interest after a certain period of time

Question 20

Island hopping

Answer 20

WW2 strategy mat involved seizing selected Japanese held islands in the pacific while bypassing others

Question 21

Universal declaration of human rights

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Document issued by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedoms

Question 22

Nuremberg trials

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Trials in which nazi leaders were charged with war crimes
13,000 trials
22 put on trial
12 death sentence

Question 23

Great terror

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Stalin purged gov and military

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Munich pact

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England and France appeasement for hitler Scared of Stalin
Germany = butler

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Anti-semitism

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Displaying prejudice and discrimination against Jewish groups

Question 26

Blitzkrieg

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“Lightning war” that emphasizes the use of speed and firepower to penetrate deep into the enemy’s territory

Question 27

Allied powers

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Group of countries led by Britain France, U.S., USSR

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Neutrality

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Not picking sides

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Embargo

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is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country/state or a group of countries.

Question 30

Rationing

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Gov= controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during war time

Question 31

Tripartite act

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Agreement created an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 32

Lend lease act

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Passed jn 1941 that allowed president FDR to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the US

Question 33

Unconditional surrender

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Giving up completely without any concessions

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Saturation bombing

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Tactic Of bombing massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage

Question 35

Navajo code talkers

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Marine Corps leadership selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language

Question 36

Bracero program

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Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms

Question 37

Manhattan project

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Name of the U.S. government research project that developed the atomic bomb

Question 38

Internment

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Temp imprisonment of members of a specific group

Question 39

YAlta conference

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Big 3 Strategy Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would have free elections

Question 40

Office of war information

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Gov agency that encouraged support of the war effort

Question 41

Superpowers

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Strong nations that dominated post war world USSR and US

Question 42

Fair employment of practice committee

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, creating a Committee on Fair Employment Practices (FEPC) to investigate complaints of discrimination and take action against valid complaints in any defense industry receiving government contracts.

Question 43

Kristallnacht

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Nazi destroyed everything that belonged to Jewish night of broken glass

Question 44

Geneva convention

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International agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war

Question 45

Franklin rosevelt

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President if US apart Of the big 3

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Benito Mussolini

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Italy Fascist

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Hideki Tojo

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Leader of Japan

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Joseph Stalin

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Soviet Union Communist Great terror Gulags

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Adolf hitler

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Led nationalist socialist German workers party Anti-semantic Attempted to overthrow government which resulted in jail (9 months in jail) Write mein kompf

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Douglas mcarthur

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New military ruler of Japan Supervised writing of Japan constitution Gave women the right to vote Led economic recovery Attacks Philippines

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Chester Nimitz

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Battle at midway, blockaded Japan

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Eisenhower

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Alamen kept Germany from Suez Canal Dday at Normandy

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Rommel and Bradley

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Big names in North America Generals

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Oppenheimer

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Developed atomic bomb wirh Einstein

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Rosie the riveter

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The face of industrial working woman

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Winston Churchill

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Head of Britain Apart of big 3

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Bernard mkontgomery

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Britain fought alongside Eisenhower at alamen

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George patten

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Helped in Normandy and North Africa