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LEADERS
Italian fascist leader
• Benito Mussolini
Prime minister who rallied
Britain to fight against Nazi
aggression
• Winston Churchill
American president who
introduced the New Deal
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nationalist general who created
a Fascist dictatorship in Spain
• Francisco Franco
Ethiopian king who appealed to
the League of Nations for help
• Haile Selassie
The Spanish artist/Painter who
helped create cubism was ____.
• Pablo Picasso
The German physicist who
advanced the theory of
relativity was ____.
• Albert Einstein
Supreme Allied commander in
Europe
• Dwight Eisenhower
American president for 4 terms
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
President after FDR, who
ordered the dropping of the ABomb
• Harry Truman
A ____ is a detention center for
civilians considered enemies of
the state.
• Concentration camp
Giving in to the demands of an
aggressor in order to keep the
peace
• Appeasement
Lightning war
• Blitzkrieg
Deliberate destruction of a group
of people
• Genocide
Japanese pilots who undertook
suicide missions to attack American
warships
• Kamikaze
Beach on the English Channel
where Allied troops were
rescued from advancing Nazis
• Dunkirk
Naval base in Hawaii that was
attacked by Japan Dec 7,1941
• Pearl Harbor
Japanese city destroyed by
an atomic bomb dropped by the
United States in 1945
• Hiroshima
Town that was brutally attacked
by Germany during the Spanish
Civil War
• Guernica
Site of a battle in Egypt that
became a turning point in World
War II
• El Alamein
The fortification was created in
France in order to prevent German
invasion
• Maginot Line
Name of the government
in Germany after WWI
• Weimar Republic.
One who cooperates with an
enemy force occupying a
country
• Pacifism
“Operation Barbarossa” refers
to Hitler’s plan to conquer
• Soviet Union
Allied invasion of France
• D-Day
European
War
European
war
Pacific
war
Pacific
war
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Which citie was the target of a
Nazi blitz for two months in
1941?
• London
The Allied forces ended the war
in Europe by
• Capturing Berlin
Which nation suffered the
highest number of casualties in
World War II?
• Soviet Union
The massacre of more than six
million Jews.
• Holocaust
VE Day refers to
• Victory in Europe
“Black Shirts”
• Mussolini’s young, veterans were
used to intimidate the
opposition.
German word for living
space
• Lebensraum
hatred of Jews
• Anti-Semitism
Hitler’s private army or Thugs
who beat up opponents
• Brownshirts
German were tried for crimes
against humanity
• Nuremberg Trials
Which battle was a turning point
after which the U.S took the
offensive in the Pacific?
• Battle of Midway
The First American attack on
Japanese soil
• The Doolittle Raid
April 18, 1942
General in charge of the pacific
campaign
• Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Method used by allied forces to
recapture some Japanese held
islands while bypassing others
• Island Hopping
Battle For this Volcanic Island
where marines raised the
American Flag
• Iwo Jima (February, 1945)
U.S. invaded this island, which
would provide a staging area for
the invasion of the Japanese
islands.
• Okinawa (April, 1945)
What was created by the
Manhattan project in Los
Alamos National Laboratory
in New Mexico
• Atomic Bomb
Name The Two Cities The
Atomic bomb Was Dropped
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
Who Surrendered for Japan and
what was that Day Called
• Emperor Hirohito
surrenders on Aug. 14,
1945. (V-J Day)
Name the plan & the 2
atomic bombs that were
dropped on Japan
• Enola Gay.
• “Little Boy“
• Fat Man
It was modeled after WW I’s
League of Nations, but
would be stronger
• UN
Name The UN’S “permanent”
membership consists of 5
Nations, each of which has
“veto” power over any UN
decisions.
• USA; USSR; England; France;
& (Nationalist) “China” .
Prime Minister of
Japan
• Gen. Hideki Tojo
The last conference that FDR
was at before he died, he
Request that the USSR assist
with the defeat of Japan after
the def. of Germany
• Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945
A wartime conference in which
Truman sent Warnings to
Japan about “unconditional
surrender” vs. facing “terrible
destruction”.
• Potsdam Conference,
Aug. 1945
FDR had funded the topsecret Manhattan Project to
develop an atomic bomb
Who Was In charge
• Dr. Robert Oppenheimer