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34 Cards in this Set
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What type of depression occurred before World War 2?
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World Wide Economic
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What country owed a high amount of money due to war debt?
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Germany
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There was a high amount of what two things before World War 2?
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High inflation & Massive Employment
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A person who has total power in a fascist system of government is called what?
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A Dictator
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Adolph Hitler is the leader of which country?
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Germany
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Who was Great Britain's leader?
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Winston ChurchHill
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Benito Mussolini belonged to which country?
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Italy
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Name the two people that were the leaders of the United States?
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Harry S. Truman and Franklin Roosevelt
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What event started World War 2?
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The attack on Pearl Harbor
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What day did the attack on Pearl Harbor take place?
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December 7, 1941
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What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
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The Battle of Midway
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Hideki Tojo was the leader of what country?
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Japan
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union?
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Joseph Stalin
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These two cities were hit by atomic bombs dropped by United States?
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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Prejudice or cruel and unfair treatment of jews is known as what?
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Anti-Semitism
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Who was a fictional character and was an example of a woman who went to work in a factory during WW2?
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Rosie Riveter
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What group were forced into internment camps?
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Japanese
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What was the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe?
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The Battle of Stalingrad
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What is Aryan Supremacy?
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Superiority of German race
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Enemies of Germany held in ___________ _____________.
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Concentration Camps
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What is the difference between Concentration Camps and Death Camps?
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Concentration camps you are put to work.
Death camps as soon as you arrived they execute you. |
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What three things was Fascism rooted in?
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Militarism
Extreme Nationalism Blind Loyalty |
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What type of barriers was broken down due to the need for workers?
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Gender
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What two words describe using less or saving to help the war effort?
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Rationing and Conserving
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What is a totalitarian state?
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A totalitarian state is a sing party which controls the government and every aspect of people's lives.
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In Nazi Germany, what THREE things did the government control?
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The Press, Schools and Religion
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What were Jews deprived of in Nazi Germany?
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Citizenship
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Why did Japan seize Manchuria in 1931?
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To acquire the two resources, Coal and Iron, which were scarce in Japan.
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What did Congress warn Americans not to do in the late 1930s?
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They warned them not to travel on ships of countries at war.
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In 1933, Hitler became ____________ of the German government.
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Chancellor
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What country did Italy invade in 1935?
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The African Nation of Ethiopia
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By limiting economic ties with warring nations, isolationists hoped to do what?
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Stay out of any foreign conflict.
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What was the Japanese state in Manchuria called?
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Manchukuo
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What did the Neutrality Acts ban?
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Arms Sales and Loans to Countries at War (1935)
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