leader who has absolute power and rules a nation by force

policy of giving in to the demands of others in an effort to keep peace

money

to gain

dislike or discrimination against Jews

to join together

giving up military weapons

The meaning of blitzkrieg is ______.

Why did Hitler insist that Austria be unified with Germany?

At which conference did the European powers give Hitler permission to take the Sudetenland?

Adolf Hitler established a single party that suppressed opposition. This action made Germany which of the following?

What country invaded Manchuria in the 1930s?

Great Britain and France declared war on Germany two days after Hitler invaded ______.

Which group promoted the idea that the United States should stay out of Europe’s problems?

Before trying to invade Great Britain, Hitler ______.

The United States entered World War II because ______.

The head of the Fascist Party was ______.

Adolf Hitler was the head of Germany's ______.

In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria, a part of China.

The Axis alliance was made up of ______.

The Neutrality Acts allowed the United States to loan money to other nations that were at war.

Neville Chamberlain was the ______.

Hitler kept his promise and never invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia.

Hitler was free to invade Poland because he signed an agreement with ______.

A string of steel-and-concrete bunkers along the French-German border was known as the Maginot Line.

What happened when Hitler invaded the Netherlands and Belgium?

After Belgium collapsed, Allied troops retreated to the French city of Paris.

In the 1940s, Winston Churchill was prime minister of Great Britain.

Why did Hitler decide to invade the Soviet Union?

Isolationists believed that the United States should join the war to help France and Great Britain.

to move

to focus

anxious

to make scarce items available to people on a limited basis

military blockade

across the ocean

attempt to kill an entire population, such as an ethnic group

protective measures taken by civilians in case of attack

Who served in the WAC and the WAVES?

How did a group of Navajo soldiers use a code based on their native language?

Where did the army force Japanese Americans to move during the war?

What was the name of a unit of African American pilots?

Which victory prevented the Germans from capturing the Suez Canal?

What code name did the Allies call their planned invasion of occupied Europe? Operation...

After defeating the Germans in North Africa, the Allied forces next moved on to ______.

The Germans built ____________ like Treblinka in order to murder about two-thirds of Europe's Jews.

During the war, the Nazis killed as many as 6 million Jews. What has this become known as?

violence was used against jews and many were sent away

German defeat that marked turning point of war

commander of Axis forces in Africa

commander of Allied forces in Africa and Europe

became President of the U.S. after Roosevelt’s death

How did the United States refocus its economy when it entered World War II?

In World War II, women were finally allowed to fight in combat.

Which was not a way the United States raised money to pay for the war?

American soldiers were called "GIs" because their uniforms were marked "Government Issue."

Luckily, World War II cost less than World War I.

During World War II, the army began training whites and African Americans together for the first time.

The government's Bracero Program brought thousands of workers from Ireland to help harvest crops.

The Allies helped the Soviets defeat Germany, and then they turned their attention to North Africa.

A siege is a military blockade that allows no one and nothing into or out of an area.

In 1942 U.S. troops captured Stalingrad, a major city in the Soviet Union.

One of the beaches in Normandy where Allied forces landed was code-named ______.

The Germans won the Battle of the Bulge.

When Hitler ruled Germany, the Nazis attempted genocide of the Jews.

a strategy used during WWII that called for attacking and capturing key islands and using these islands to attack other islands

a war, prolonged struggle

to gain control of

a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target

On the day Pearl Harbor was attacked, Japan also bombed American airfields in _____.

Where did the Japanese force prisoners to make a "death march" to a prison camp?

American troops in the Pacific were under the command of American general ______.

Where did the United States drop the first atomic bomb?

The war with Japan ended when the United States ______.

top secret project to create a powerful bomb

battle that was seen as a preview to the invasion of Japan

formal Japanese surrender took place here

promised if Japan did not surrender they would face “prompt and utter destruction.”

bombing raids on Tokyo

A kamikaze was a Japanese______.

James "Jimmy" Doolittle was an American pilot who bombed Tokyo in 1942.

The Japanese were using a military strategy called "island hopping."

The Japanese lost four aircraft carriers and hundreds of airplanes at the ______.

The Manhattan Project was a plan to station more U.S. troops in New York City.

More than half the 55 million people killed in World War II were civilians.