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Munich Pact

Neville Chamberlain said that the ____ had preserved "peace for our time".

Benito Mussolini

The leader of the Fascist Party in Italy

Adolf Hitler

Leader of Nazi Germany

Totalitarianism

When a single leader or party controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of the people

Anschluss

Term that refers to the union of Germany and Austria in 1938

Ideology

A system of ideas that guides an individual, movement, or political program

Joseph Stalin

Communist dictator of the USSR

Anti-Semitic

Having prejudice against Jewish people and discriminating against them

Francisco Franco

General ____ won the Spanish Civil War with help from Germany and Italy.

Appeasement

In the 1930s, Britain and France tried to prevent war by following a policy of _____ , giving in to some of Germany's demands.

limit US involvement in World War Two.

Congress passed Neutrality Acts that were designed to

Britain

In 1940 Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of ____, said "We shall never surrender".

Allied Powers

The term for the alliance that eventually included Britain, France, China, the US, and the USSR

America First Committee

A group of isolationists that included Charles Lindbergh formed the

Britain

Germany's months-long bombing campaign against ___ was known as the Blitz.

Lend-Lease Act

In 1941, Congress approved the ___ authorizing FDR to aid any nation whose defense he felt was vital to US security.

Atlantic Charter

The ___ signed by Churchill and FDR endorsed national self-determination and the creation of an international system to provide general security.

Blitzkrieg

The term that meant "lightning war"

Axis Powers

The term for the alliance that eventually included Germany, Italy, Japan, and several other nations

The US attempted to remain neutral while making war supplies available to the Allies.

Which of the following was part of US policy during the early years of World War Two?

Hideki Tojo

The general who became Prime Minister of Japan

usually fought in segregated units.

During World War Two, African American soldiers

Women's Army Corps (WAC)

Congress created the ___ to provide clerical workers, truck drivers, and lab technicians to support the US Army.

The Pacific Ocean

In what part of the world were the battles of the Coral Sea and the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Allocate

A term meaning to distribute according to a plan

Minimal

A term referring to the smallest or least amount possible

Bataan Death March

More than 7,000 American and Filipino POWs died during the

The Axis Powers

In September 1940, Japan allied with

at Pearl Harbor

The Japanese military leaders believed they could cripple the American navy

the Philippines

When the Japanese advanced against his soldiers, General MacArthur was ordered to leave ___ and go to Australia.

Final; most advanced.

Ultimate

Saturation Bombing

When massive amounts of bombs were dropped on German cities to inflict maximum damage

a "Europe First" strategy that would concentrate on winning the war in Europe.

Roosevelt agreed with our Allies to

Momentum

Term referring to forward motion

Strategic Bombing

American bombers used ____ when they targeted Germany's key political and industrial centers to destroy their capacity to make war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The American General, ___ commanded the Allied invasion of North Africa (and he would later command the D-Day invasion).

Giving up completely without any concessions.

Unconditional surrender

US forces stopped Japan's advance, Japan lost four aircraft carriers in a single battle.

The Battle of Midway

American

The ____ General George S. Patton (known as Blood & Guts) was the innovative tank commander who helped the Allies take control of North Africa, capturing 240,000 German & Italian soldiers.

Tuskegee Airmen

The ___ escorted bombers on 1,500 missions over Europe but did not lose a single bomber!

The Zoot-Suits

The baggy clothing of Mexican Americans who had conflicts with sailors who were on leave

long-held prejudice and fears inflamed by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

What led the US government to evacuate Japanese Americans from the West Coast?

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

This was an organization founded in 1942 that used nonviolent methods in their work to end segregation and discrimination in the US

Franklin Roosevelt

When Executive Order 8802 was issued by ____ racial discrimination was outlawed for any industries with government contracts.

initiate

To begin or originate

The Bracero Program

A partnership between Mexico and the US to bring laborers from Mexico to work on farms in the US

The Office of War Information (OWI)

Who worked closely with the media to encourage support for the war effort?

Internment

The ___ camps in remote inland areas of the US were places where Japanese Americans were confined during WW2.

Nisei

The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was all _____ (Japanese Americans born in the US).

A. Philip Randolph

The head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters who threatened to carry out a March on Washington and demanded Civil Rights reforms

a combination of US, British, and Canadian forces

The invasion of German-held territories that took place at Normandy, France involved

Japanese

By the end of the war, more than 3,000 ____ pilots lost their lives on kamikaze missions.

develop an atomic bomb

The goal of the Manhattan Project was to

Harry Truman

He became president in 1945 after FDR died:

Facsist Party

a right-wing organization that trumpeted nationalism and promised to make Italy great again

the last offensive the Nazis attempted against the Allied forces.

The Battle of the Bulge was

to recapture territories from Japan

The Allies used the island-hopping strategy

the landing of Allied forces on the coast of France

Which of the following took place on D-Day?

that resulted in the first atomic explosion on July 16, 1945.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a physicist who worked with many other scientists on a project in Los Alamos, New Mexico

Scenario

An outline for a proposed series of events; a script

Deny German citizenship to the Jews.

The Nuremberg Laws were created to

Death Camps

The Germans built ___ where prisoners were systematically exterminated. The largest was called Auschwitz.

The Nazi attempt to kill all Jews under their control.

The word Holocaust is used to refer to

Genocide

The willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group

to persecute the Jews and compel many to leave Germany's territories

Which of the following was one of the main goals of the event known as Kristallnacht?

Arbitrary

Not following any fixed rule or plan; random

Concentration Camps

The Germans built ___ where designated groups of undesirables were confined. Many of the prisoners died of starvation, disease, or deliberate murder.

Restraint

Something that holds someone back from action

War Refugee Board

Created by FDR, the ____ helped the Red Cross save thousands of European Jews.

Nazi Party

antidemocratic party on the right that threatened the Weimar Republic

Lebensraum

living space

Neutrality Act of 1939

allowed nations of war to buy goods and arms in the United States if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships

the D-Day invasion

Dwight D. Eisenhower was responsible for ___ taking place in June, 1944.

Winston Churchill

prime minister of Britain

Douglas MacArthur

U.S. general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific; "I shall return"

John Basilone

NJ war hero in the Pacific Theater; awarded Medal of Honor on Guadalcanal and gave his life at Iwo Jima

Executive Order 8802

WWII measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government

Navajo Code Talkers

radio operators that used a code based on their own language to send critical messages from island to island

Island hopping

WWII strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others

Kamikaze

Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during WWII

Manhattan Project

code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb

Munich Pact

agreement made between Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France in 1938 that sacrificed the Sudetenland to preserve peace