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World War II

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  • The USSR dicator of Lenin's death
    Joseph Stalin
  • Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party took control of Germany
    1933
  • a leader who gains complete control over a country's government
    Dictator
  • Nazi Germany's air force
    Luftwaffe
  • The 3 major Axis Power
    Japan, Germany and Italy
  • The stock market crash led to a severe economic crisis also known __________
    Great Depression
  • the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on the centre of Hiroshima on this day
    6th of August 1945
  • The 2 countries that promised to protect Poland and to stop Hitler
    France and Britain
  • The american sailor
    Doris"Dorie" Miller
  • The name of the book Hitler wrote in prison after his failed coup d’état was called
    Mein Kampf
  • This is a form of government in which individual freedoms are denied
    Fascism
  • Czechoslovakia had to surrender its border regions (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.
    Munich Agreement
  • Atomic bombs were dropped on what two cities in Japan?
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • United States president when World War 2 started
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other
    non-aggression pact
  • codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
    Little Boy
  • It was an organized mass demonstration and a coup d'état in October 1922 which resulted in National Fascist Party
    March On Rome
  • Leader of Japan during World War 2
    Emperor Hirohito
  • Leader of Italy during World War 2
    Benito Mussolini
  • The Hawaiian island where Pearl Harbor is
    Oauhu Island
  • the term for the murder of around six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators during WWII.
    The Holocaust
  • Leader of Japan during World War 2
    Emperor Hirohito
  • (surprise attacks that combined the use of tanks and aircraft).
    Blitzkrieg
  • When a nation wants to remain neutral and allow other countries to handle their own arffairs
    isolationism
  • About how many people of Japanese ancestry were put in Internment Camps
    120,000
  • member of any of the armed squads of the Italian Fascist during the world war
    Blackshirts
  • The date when Japan was attacked by Pearl Harbor
    December 7, 1941
  • the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II
    Rosie the Riveter
  • The month and year that France in the War
    June 1940