Us History Chapters 17-18 Test

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philosophy emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group and the supreme authority of the leader

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facism

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government that exerts total control over a nation

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totalitarian

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keeping the peace by giving into an aggressor’s demands

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appeasement

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Germany and Italy, later joined by Japan

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Axis Powers

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act authorizing the President to aid any nations whose defense he felt was vital to American security

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Lend-Lease Act

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U.S. laws designed to keep the nation out of future wars

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Neutrality Acts

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group of American isolationists

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America First Committee

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policy that required countries at war to pay cash for all nonmilitary goods and provide transport

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cash and carry

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What prompted the United States to enter the war in 1941?

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the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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Joseph Stalin dominated the Soviet Union using the tactics of

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terror and purges.

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The Axis Powers were named for the “axis” between which two European capitals?

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Berlin and Rome

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The Japanese leaders believed they could cripple the American naval fleet

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at Pearl Harbor.

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During the 1930s, Hitler, Mussolini, and the military leaders of Japan

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began invading neighboring lands.

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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prompted the United States to enter the war.

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Great Britain held out against the German attack at the Battle of

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Britain.

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To which direction did Hitler look when he decided Germany needed more lebensraum (“living space”)?

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to the east: eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

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Hitler signed a Nonaggression Pact with

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the Soviet Union.

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Hitler used what military strategy when invading Poland?

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a blitzkrieg

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Which militant Japanese general became prime minister in October of 1941?

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Tojo Hideki

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The United States began to emerge from the depression as a result of

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producing goods for the Allied forces.

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What was the main war strategy that Roosevelt and Churchill first agreed on?

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to concentrate on winning the war in Europe

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The Germans were finally halted in their advance into the Soviet Union at

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the Battle of Stalingrad.

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The complicated Allied invasion to take Europe back from the Axis Powers began

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on D-Day.

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The Battle of the Bulge was

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the largest battle fought in Western Europe during World War II.

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What was one of the main goals of the Nazis in the 1930s?

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get rid of the Jews

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What important idea came out of the Nuremberg Trials?

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Individuals are responsible for their own actions.

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Through their island-hopping strategy, the Allies put themselves in a position to

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bomb Japan.

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The goal of the Manhattan Project was to

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develop an atomic bomb.

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During World War II, many Japanese Americans were interned, or

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confined to camps in isolated areas

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Because of the war, large numbers of women began to work as

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steelworkers and welders.

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After the war, women were expected to

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leave their jobs and return home.

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What took place on D-Day?

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the landing of Allied forces on France’s Normandy coast

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What best describes Japanese kamikazes?

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bomb-loaded planes whose pilots deliberately crashed into targets

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What finally brought an end to World War II?

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the dropping of atomic bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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V-E Day, May 8, 1945, marked

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the end of the war in Europe