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| 363678029 | The Great Depression The Treaty of Versailles Failure of the League of Nations German, Italian, Japanese Aggression | Causes of World War II | 0 | |
| 363678030 | Charismatic, Germany is going through a serious depression, looking for someone to blame, Hitler offers a way out and someone to blame | Why is Hitler able to come to power? | 1 | |
| 363678031 | Totalitarian Government | the government and every aspect of the peoples' lives is controlled by one party | 2 | |
| 363678032 | Fascism | militarism, extreme nationalism (my country is always right) and total loyalty to the leader "Il Duce" | 3 | |
| 363678033 | Spanish Civil War (Axis support Facist forces/ Allies support Republican Government) | What was a sort of precursor to WW II? | 4 | |
| 363678034 | Good Neighbor Policy | US will respect themselves and the rights of others Focuses on Latin America Stated that the US would not try to run their government, but would treat them as equals | 5 | |
| 363678035 | cash and carry | meaning other nations could buy our goods, but they had to pay for the goods before they left our shores and carry them on their own ships | 6 | |
| 363678036 | "blitzkreig" | "lightning war" | 7 | |
| 363678037 | Maginot Line | The line that France believed would keep them safe from German, but didn't | 8 | |
| 363678038 | Hideki Tojo | Japanese Dictator | 9 | |
| 363678039 | December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor | 10 | |
| 363678040 | Double "V" Campaign | Victory in war and victory against discrimination at home. Reduced job discrimination | 11 | |
| 363678041 | Tuskegee Airmen | Group of very successful, heroic African American fighter pilots | 12 | |
| 363678042 | Bracero Program | allowed businesses to bring in Mexican laborers | 13 | |
| 363678043 | Battle of the Coral Sea | Strategic victory for US because Japan had to cut off their invasion of Australia to do battle | 14 | |
| 363678044 | The Battle of Midway | US decodes Japanese messages and sink 4 Japanese carriers as they try to attack Midway Islands on June 4, 1942 | 15 | |
| 363678045 | The Battle of Guadalcanal | Allies invade on August 7, 1942 Beat the Japanese on February 9, 1943 Finally stops the Japanese military advance | 16 | |
| 363678046 | Germans had been building up a blockade, but Allies used fact radio message to confuse the Germans | Why was it hard to storm the beach on D-Day? | 17 | |
| 363678047 | The Battle of the Bludge | December 16, 1944, Germans try one more time to break the Allies Goal is to cut the Allied Army in two by sweeping through the Ardennes district of France | 18 | |
| 363678048 | Yalta Conference | Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta, Russia in Feb. 1945 to discuss how to end the war | 19 | |
| 363678049 | Roosevelt chose not to wait to take Berlin, proved to be bad decision | Why did the American fail to take Berlin? | 20 | |
| 363678050 | Harry Truman | Who takes over for FDR? | 21 | |
| 363678051 | Navajo Code-Talkers | helps US forces communicate without Japanese interception | 22 | |
| 363678052 | Nuremburg Trials | The Allies put Nazi leaders on trial for the atrocities of the Holocaust | 23 |
