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  • How did du Pont aide the war?
    Engineered the nuclear reactor for nuclear weapons
  • Explain the Nuremberg Laws
    Hitler deemed that to be Jewish was now racial not religious groups
  • How was Germany reconstructed after the war?
    Germany and Berlin were divided into 4 sections between the aliies
  • Describe appeasement leading to WW2.
    Allowing Hitler to violate the Treaty without punishment in order to avoid conflict
  • Axis Powers:
    Germany, Italy, Japan
  • Military general who led US forces on the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Describe a totalitarian government?
    Government has complete control
  • What are the 4 points of the Treaty of Versailles?
    Germany 1. Has to take the blame 2. Limited military 3. Give up all territories 4. Pay war reparations
  • Led the Great Purge against political enemies. Leader of the Soviet Union following V. Lenin
    J. Stalin
  • What battle was the first victory the US had over Japan after Pearl Harbor?
    Battle of Midway
  • Describe the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
    Nazis and Soviet agree to not interfere with one another.
  • Italian leader who started facism
    Benito Mussolini
  • Face of Japan; Emperor of Japan during and after the war.
    Emperor Hirohito
  • This sign is the first thing prisoners see upon entering Auschwitz and Wiesel described as ironic. What does it mean?
    "Work makes you free"
  • How did the Great Depression allow for dictators like Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler come to power?
    They promised to fix the economies
  • Put the events in order:
    Fall of France, Invasion of Poland, Invasion of the USSR, Battle of Britain
  • This image represents:
    Victory of the US at Iwo Jima over Japan
  • How did Chrysler aide the war effort?
    Built tanks (M3 Tank)
  • Germany bombed the city of London nightly for months during what battle?
    Battle of Britain
  • What years did the war occur between?
    1939-1945
  • What event led the United States to enter World War II?
    Pearl Harbor bombing
  • Chancellor of Germany (1933) and leader of Nazi Party.
    Adolf Hitler
  • Why was D-Day important to the war effort?
    It allowed for the Allies to liberate France and push forward to Germany.
  • Which two cities were bombed by the United States to end the war?
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Who are the permanent five (P5) members of the UN AND what power do they possess?
    US, USSR, UK, France, China - veto power
  • Why did Stalin join the Allies instead of countries similar to the USSR during the war?
    Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
  • Leader of Great Britain throughout most of the war who was against appeasement?
    Winston Churchill
  • This cartoon was in reaction to what event?
    Pearl Harbor bombing
  • How did the United States react to the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
    Pushed Japanese-Americans into Internment camps
  • This image best describes what event?
    Kristallnacht - Night of the Broken Glass
  • What organization replaced the League of Nations after WW2?
    United Nations
  • Explain the "Final Solution":
    Hitler's plan to exterminate Jews
  • Describe "island hopping"
    US takes small islands throughout the Pacific on their way to Japan's mainland
  • Who did the Nazi Party blame for the economic depression in the 1930s?
    Jews
  • Why did Truman decide to bomb Japan to end the war?
    It was the quickest way to end the war
  • What was the purpose of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
    Protest basic human rights
  • The US gave money to Europe to rebuild after the war with the Marshall Plan to prevent:
    Prevent communism
  • Nazi officials are put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity at what international trial?
    Nuremberg Trials
  • Military leader over Japan:
    Hideki Tojo
  • This propaganda represents:
    Women's role in the industries during the war
  • What event most famously caused the Great Depression?
    Stock Market Crash in 1929
  • What event did World War II directly lead to:
    Cold War
  • What was the importance of the Battle of Britain?
    It showed the Allies/United States that Hitler could be defeated.
  • Military general who oversaw the occupation of Japan after their surrender:
    Douglas MacArthur
  • Describe anti-Semitism.
    Prejudice against Jews
  • Allied Powers:
    United States, Soviet Union, France, United Kingdom
  • Dictatorship and communism can be found in what section of divided Germany/Berlin?
    East
  • Explain VE Day AND VJ Day
    Victory in Europe Day & Victory in Japan Day
  • How did Ford Motor Co. aide the war?
    Provided B24 bombers and the V8 engine to Chrysler
  • Democracy and capitalism can be found in what section of divided Germany/Berlin?
    West
  • What is the meaning of this political cartoon?
    Appeasement will not work forever, war is inevitable
  • What term was created during the Nuremberg Trials to describe the Holocaust?
    Genocide
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