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People Terms/ VOC Key Events Mix Bag $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 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 Mixed Questions $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 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