World War 2

Front 1

Benito Mussolini was what 3 things?

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1. Fascist

2. Nationalist

3. Militarist expansionist

Front 2

During the war, crop prices, crop production, and farm income fell dramatically.

Back 2

False

Front 3

In the Battle of Stalingrad, what contributed to the Soviet victory?

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1. A brutal winter

2. A massive soviet counterattack

3. Hitlers refusal to order a German retreat

Front 4

What did Winston Churchill oppose?

Back 4

The Munich pack

Front 5

D-Day was the Allies' code name for their invasion of North Africa on June 6, 1994.

Back 5

False

Front 6

Germany, Italy, and Japan were considered to be what?

Back 6

The axis powers

Front 7

The initial success of this German offensive was due to the Allies' being caught off guard.

Back 7

Battle of the Bulge

Front 8

What was the MAIN goal of the Nazi policy of genocide?

Back 8

To exterminate groups of people that the Nazi felt were inferior

Front 9

This nation won the Battle of Britain.

Back 9

Britain

Front 10

The purpose of the Manhattan Project was to design and build the atomic bomb.

Back 10

True

Front 11

He was the F.D.R.'s vice-president.

Back 11

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Front 12

This nation ceased to exist after it was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union.

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Poland

Front 13

Who was the Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in Europe?

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Eisenhower

Front 14

Leaders of totalitarian governments were:

Back 14

1. Joseph Stalin

2. Francisco Franco

3. Benito Mussolini

Front 15

In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on who?

Back 15

The United States

Front 16

Adolf Hitler was:

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1. A nationalist

2. The inventor of Nazism

3. A militarist

4. Elected to office

Front 17

This was responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development on "wonder drugs"such as penicillin that saved countless lives.

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Office of scientific research and development

Front 18

The battle of Britain forced Germany to do what?

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Fight a three-front war

Front 19

Britain and France declared war in response to what?

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German invasion of Poland

Front 20

Who was the leader of the first Fascist government?

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Benito Mussolini

Front 21

The Britain Prime Minister signed the Munich pact. Who was it?

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Winston Churchill

Front 22

Britain and France were drawn into war with Germany because:

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Germany had attacked Czechoslovakia

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What did Germany agree to in order to avoid fighting a two-front war?

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A nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union

Front 24

The final decision to use the atomic bomb against japan was made by J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Back 24

False

Front 25

What did the selective service system oversee?

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The drafting of soldiers

Front 26

In 1941, Churchill and Roosevelt met secretly aboard a warship off the coast of Newfoundland. Together, they drafted what?

Back 26

Atlantic Charter

Front 27

By signing the Munich pact, Britain and France agreed to take this policy toward German aggression:

Back 27

Appeasement

Front 28

Which nation(s) signed a nonaggression pact with Germany that led to the invasion and division of Poland?

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The Soviet Union

Front 29

The German Blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on what?

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Surprising and overwhelming force

Front 30

In 1941, Japan took over French military bases in Indochina. In response, the U.S. places a ____ on Japan.

Back 30

Trade Embargo

Front 31

In 1941, the U.S. declared war on who?

Back 31

Japan

Front 32

When the U.S. entered the war, what nations were partly or completely under Axis control?

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China, France, and Poland

Front 33

What nations came to be known as the Axis powers after they signed a mutual defense treaty in 1941?

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Germany, Japan, and Italy

Front 34

The term Nisei refers to Japanese American who what?

Back 34

Were born in the U.S. of immigrant parents

Front 35

The Axis powers' alliance worried FDR because he saw that the U.S., if drawn into war, would have to do what?

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Fight on 2 oceans

Front 36

This day marked the end of the war in Europe.

Back 36

V-E Day

Front 37

This is what the atomic bpmb program came to be called.

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Manhattan Project

Front 38

Altogether, approximately how many people died in the Holocaust?

Back 38

6,000,000

Front 39

What allowed Britain, France and their allies to obtain U.S. weapons without having to pay cash front?

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The Lend-Lease Act

Front 40

The Nazis practiced genocide, which is what?

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Deliberate extermination of a specific group of people

Front 41

Who or what did president Roosevelt describe as "the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic"?

Back 41

Japanese warplanes and their pilots

Front 42

This death camp was the first liberated by the Allies.

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Auschwitz

Front 43

Where was the first Fascist government formed?

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Italy

Front 44

D-Day was the code name for the Allied invasion of what

Back 44

France

Front 45

This was the method used to decreased the use of scarce and essential wartime goods.

Back 45

Rationing

Front 46

Where were atomic bombs dropped?

Back 46

Hiroshima Nagasaki

Front 47

Convoys, sonar, and radar, helped the Allies to win this battle.

Back 47

Battle of the Atlantic

Front 48

What did Adolf Hitler oppose?

Back 48

The treaty of Versailles

Front 49

December 7th, 1941 is the date of what?

Back 49

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Front 50

This General commanded the Invasion of North Africa.

Back 50

Patton