WWII (1) Flashcards
What is a dictator?
*A dictator is a leader who gains complete control of a country’s government.
What three countries began forcibly taking over other countries around them in order to expand their country’s borders and make them more powerful.
Benito Mussolini (Italy) Tojo (Japan) were also dictators of their countries Adolf Hitler (Germany) to try and take over Europe and parts of Asia.
Explain how Adolf Hitler’s actions lead to the start of World War II.
- Hitler made promises to other countries then broke them (the Treaty of Versailles and the deal at Munich between Germany, Britain, and France).
- Hitler led Germany to invade Poland despite warnings of war from Britain and France.
- Britain and France declare war on Germany.
- German troops then invaded Denmark and Norway.
Axis powers
Germany
Japan
Italy
Allies powers
USA
France
Great Britain
USSR(Russia)
What policy did the US have on the war?
Isolationism
Describe the event that caused the U.S. to enter the war.
The attack on Pearl Harbor
Identify the country that each leader/dictator was from.
Franklin Roosevelt
USA
Identify the country that each leader/dictator was from.
Winston Churchill
Great Britain (United Kingdom)
Identify the country that each leader/dictator was from.
Charles de Gaulle
France
Identify the country that each leader/dictator was from.
Joseph Stalin
USSR (Russia)
Identify the country that each leader/dictator was from.
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Identify the country that each leader/dictator was from.
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Identify the country that each leader/dictator was from.
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Which two countries in the Allied Powers first declared war on Germany?
Great Britain and France
