WWII: Lesson 1 and 2

Reorder the following

• Britain and France, known as the allies, warn Hitler not to invade Poland. Hitler ignores this threat.

• Japanese planes bomb the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.

• Germany and Italy declare war on the US, and the US joins the war as one of the Allies.

• Britain and France declare war on Germany.

• The US declare war on Japan.

Match the following

• A system that limits the amount of scarce goods people can buy.

• Dictator

• US, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union

• Allies

• Germany, Italy, Japan

• Fascism

• A form of government that gives all power to the state, does away with individual freedoms

• Rationing

• A ruler who has total power over a country

• Axis

Match the following

• An investment paid by American citizens to the government to help pay for a war that,.

• Internment Camp

• Allowed the US to sell, lend, or give ships, places, tanks, and other equipment to the Allies

• Lend-Lease Act

• Guarded camps where Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans were forced to move.

• War Bond

Scrap drives were used to collect food to send to soldiers overseas.

• True

• False

Women formed the All-American Girl Baseball League

• True

• False

An all African American group of sailors were called the Tuskegee Airmen

• True

• False

Match the leader with their country

• Winston Churchill

• USA

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Germany

• Hideki Tojo

• Japan

• Benito Mussolini

• Britain

• Adolf Hitler

• Italy