Mrs. Hayes history-World war 2 Flashcards
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| 526100990 | Japan's emperor | Hirohito | |
| 526100991 | Japans government | Militarism | |
| 526100992 | Japan's prime minister | Tojo | |
| 526100993 | Italy's government | Fascism | |
| 526100994 | Who was the "Duce" | Mussolini | |
| 526100995 | Who was the leader of Ethiopia | Selassie | |
| 526100996 | Was the league of nations effective | No | |
| 526100997 | Germany's government | Nazism | |
| 526100998 | Who was Germany's leader | Hitler | |
| 526100999 | What does "Fuehrer" mean | Leader | |
| 526101000 | What was the Third Reich | Hitlers government | |
| 526101001 | Mein Kampf | My Struggle- Hitler's book- wrote while he was in jail | |
| 526101002 | Anti-Semitism | prejudice or actions that harm or discriminate against Jews | |
| 526101003 | Nuremberg Laws | Jews are not citizens | |
| 526101004 | Kristallnacht | Night of broken glass- all synagogues were destroyed | |
| 526101005 | Lebensraum | Living space | |
| 526101006 | Anschluss | When Germany annexes Austria | |
| 526101007 | When and what is the Munich Conference | 1938 and the conference that decided Czech fate | |
| 526101008 | Who was at the Munich conference | Hitler and prime minister Chamberlain | |
| 526101009 | What does appeasement mean? | To give in to | |
| 526101010 | Who said, "peace in our time" | Prime Minster Chamberlain | |
| 526101011 | When and who was the non- aggression pact between | 1939 and Hitler and Stalin | |
| 526101012 | When was the invasion of Poland | 1939 | |
| 526101013 | When did England and France declare war on Germany? | September, 1939 | |
| 526101014 | Blitzkrieg | Lightning War- an all out attack | |
| 526101015 | Phony War | War was declared but no fighting for a while because countries were preparing for war | |
| 526101016 | Who did Germany defeat (7 countries) | Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France | |
| 526101017 | Dunkirk | City in France and was in 1940 | |
| 526101018 | Vichy France | Where French pro- Nazis ruled southern France | |
| 526101019 | When and what is the Battle of Britain | R.A.F ( royal air force) vs. Luftwaffe ( German air force) and it was in 1940 | |
| 526101020 | Operation Sea Lion | German code name for the battle of Britain | |
| 526101021 | When and what is the Lend Lease Act | 1941 and when the USA would loan equipment to Britain | |
| 526101022 | Who said, "arsenal for democracy" | FDR | |
| 526101023 | When did Germany invade the USSR | June 1941 | |
| 526101024 | What was Germans code name for the invasion of the USSR | Operation Bararsossa | |
| 526101025 | What happened on December 7th, 1941 | Japan attacked Pearl Harbor | |
| 526101026 | When did the USA enter the war | 1941 | |
| 526101027 | Who said, "a date which will live in infamy" | FDR | |
| 526101028 | In the battle of Stalingrad who was fighting ? | Germans vs. Russians | |
| 526101029 | In the war in Africa and Europe who were the americans and the british troops led by? | USA= Patton, Britain= Montgomery | |
| 526101030 | Where is the battle of El Alamein and who wins. | Egypt and the British win | |
| 526101031 | What was Erwin Rommel nick name | The desert fox | |
| 526101032 | What were Rommel's troops called | The Afrika Korps | |
| 526101033 | What was the first place to be liberated | North Africa | |
| 526101034 | When does Italy switch to the Allies side? | 1943 | |
| 526101035 | When was the Normandy invasion? | June 6, 1944 | |
| 526101036 | What was D-days code name | Operation Overlord | |
| 526101037 | Who was in charge of the allied troops | Gen. Eisenhower | |
| 526101038 | Where was the battle of Bulge | Belgium | |
| 526101039 | When did Hitler commit suicide | 1945 | |
| 526101040 | What and when is V-E Day | When Germany surrendered and it is May, 1945 | |
| 526101041 | Who won the battle of Midway | USA | |
| 526101042 | Who won the battle of Guadalcanal | USA | |
| 526101043 | Who said, "I shall return" | Gen. MacArther | |
| 526101044 | What is a kami-kazi pilot | Suicide pilot | |
| 526101045 | When, Where and what is the Yalta conference | 1945 in USSR Churchill, FDR and Stalin make post war plans | |
| 526101046 | Who is the president during the atomic bomb | Pres. Truman | |
| 526101047 | What is the Manhattan Project | The making of the atomic bomb | |
| 526101048 | What 2 places is the bomb dropped on | Hiroshima, Japan. And Nagasaki, Japan | |
| 526101049 | When and what is V-J Day | September, 1945 and Japan surrenders | |
| 526101050 | What is the final solution? | Killing of all Jews | |
| 526101051 | What is Auschwitz | The worst concentration camp | |
| 526101052 | Germany and Berlin were divide into how many zones | 4 |