World War II Review

In 1940, one of the greatest rescues in the history of warfare occurred

After Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia and made a pact with Stalin, he invaded

What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common in the 1930s?

Which laws gave the U.S. the power to give the Allies war supplies without paying cash?

What were the years of WWII for Europe?

The leader of Italy during WWII

What was the first city the atom bomb was dropped on?

Despite their differing ideologies, in 1939 which Fascist made a pact with which Communist?

This event "sparked" Europe into World War II

President after FDR in 1945, who helped end WWII with the atomic Bomb

What prompted the U.S. to enter the war in 1941?

Which was part of American policy during the early years of World War II?

What ultimately let Truman to the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?

Philosophy that was characterized in the Sov. Union by total government control of the economy

What is the name of the strategy used by the Allied Powers in the Pacific?

Britain and France tried to prevent war by following a policy of ___, giving in to HItler

In order to modernize agriculture in the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin

Hitler used which of the following military strategies when invading Poland

Japanese surrender came less than a week after

This warned Japan to surrender or they would face "utter destruction"

During the 1930's, Hitler, Mussolini, and the military leaders of Japan

What did the Neutrality Act do?

In what battle did Hitler launch the greatest air assault the world had yet seen?

keeping the peace by giving into an aggressor's demands

This is the name of the non aggression pact that Hitler mad with Stalin

a philosophy that emphasizes the importance of the nation and the authority of the leader

In what year did WWII begin in Europe?

A pilot who deliberately crashed his plane into an enemy ship was called a(n)?

Joseph Stalin dominated the Soviet Union using the tactics of 

A strategic attack on air and land by Germany on the enemies

During the 1930's, the U.S. focused largely on

Which country had gained control of most of Western Europe by 1940?

The Axis Powers were named for the 'axis' between which two European capitals?

The goal of the Manhattan project was to

What were the names of the Atomic Bombs that essentially ended WWII?

The Prime Minister of Great Britain, beginning in May of 1940

This battle was the first turning point in Europe for Allied Powers

Britain, France, The Soviet Union, and later the U.S.

This turning point in the war gave the Allied Powers a second front in Europe.

Germany, Italy, later joined by Japan

By the beginning of WWII Japan had

June 6, 1944