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41 Cards in this Set
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What nation did Germany invade that sparked the beginning of World War II?
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Poland
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Mein Kampf
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written by Hitler
proposed to end democracy in Germany, eliminate Jews, and create a new German order |
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What country was forced to give Germany some of its territory as a result of the Munich Conference?
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Czechoslovakia
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Fascism
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government of Italy
nationalism militarism totalitarianism |
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Anschluss
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German unification with Austria
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What African nation did Italy conquer in 1935?
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Ethiopia
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What did Germany do first?
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Occupied the Rhineland
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What was the first act of naked aggression in the 1930s?
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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What secret weapon brought the war in the Pacific to an early end?
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atomic bomb
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To how many terms was Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president of the United States?
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four
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In what section of northern France did the AEF land in 1944?
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Normandy
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What government organization controlled the conversion of American industry to military production?
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War Production Board
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According to Roosevelt, what date would "live in infamy"?
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December 7, 1941
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What agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their "common principles" and goals in the war effort?
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Atlantic Charter
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What act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished?
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Lend-Lease Act
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Charles Lindbergh
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leading spokesman for isolationism
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What nation was the last to fall to Germany in the spring of 1940?
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France
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What was the main provision of the Neutrality Act of 1939?
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Warring nations must purchase weapons from the US on a cash basis and carry it to their own ships.
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What country was never invaded by German soldiers?
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Great Britain
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What factor kept the US out of the early stages of World War II?
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resentment over Allied failure to pay war debts
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Which country did Germany invade but never force to surrender?
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Soviet Union
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Rosie the Riveter
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symbolized working women
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What country did Germany invade in Operation Barbarossa?
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Soviet Union
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Erwin Rommel
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German
Known as Desert Fox |
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In what year did the war begin?
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1939
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North Africa
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Where American forces first fought Germans
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What was the Triple Alliance of dictatorships during World War II called?
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Axis
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Which British commander helped to defeat the Germans in North Africa?
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Bernard Montgomery
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Yalta Conference
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formation of international organization for peace
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kamikaze pilots
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desperate measure by Japanese in Leyte Gulf
suicide pilots who crashed their planes into ships |
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Okinawa
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island captured by Americans as a final preparation for invasion of Japan
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Atlantic Charter
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list of allied war aims
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Chester W. Nimitz
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America's admiral at Battle of Midway
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Roosevelt's response to Japanese conquest of French Indochina
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oil embargo against Japan
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Douglas MacArthur
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American commander in Far East
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In what year did the US enter World War II?
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1941
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What event brought America into the war?
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Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Things Americans did to support the war
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rationing
recycling War Production Board |
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Effects of war on American home front
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women working in factories
taxes national debt |
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Order of Events
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fall of France
Battle of Britain German invasion of Russia American entry in war |
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Order of Events, 2
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German occupation of Rhineland
German occupation of Sudetenland German unification of Austria German invasion of Poland |
