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  • After WW2, German leaders were put on trial for the horrendous actions taken during the war.
    Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
  • When a nation wants to remain neutral and allow other countries to handle their own arffairs
    isolationism
  • What organization was formed to keep the peace after WW2
    Confederate countries
    United Nations
    Peace Corp
    American Union
  • What event started World War 2?
    Hitler invaded France
  • Prisons where the Nazis enslaved and murdered millions of Jews during WW2
    concentration camps
  • Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy and took France back from Germany. (Largest sea invasion ever)
    D Day
  • Leader of Japan during World War 2
    Emperor Hirohito
  • The Axis had early success, but which event was the turning point in WW2
    Iwo Jima
    VE Day
    VJ Day
    D Day
  • VJ Day happened as a result of what event?
    The US successfully invaded Japan and captured Hiroshima
    The US defeated Japan at Okinawa and Iwo Jima
    Adolf Hitler committed suicide
    atomic bombs dropped on Japan
  • On D day, June 6, 1944, Allied Forces
    Fought the Nazi troops at Stalingrad
    sent thousands of troops to Berlin
    took control of many Japanese islands
    stormed the beaches of Normandy, France
  • Why did the US join in the fight in World War 2?
    Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
  • Leader of the Nazi Party in Germany during WW2
    Adolf Hitler
  • Fictional character on government posters that symbolizes women working in factories during WW2
    Rosie the Riviter
  • to make free - grant freedom to
    liberate
  • Limiting the amount of food each person could buy during WW2 was called
    draft
    holocaust
    nationalism
    rationing
  • Atomic bombs were dropped on what two cities in Japan?
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Leader of Italy during World War 2
    Benito Mussolini
  • The US entered WW2 in response to
    Hitler seizing power in Germany
    Japan and Germany signing an alliance
    Hitler's troops invading poland
    Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
  • International Organization to keep peace after World War 2
    United Nations
  • the murder of more than 6 million Jews by Hitler during WW2
    the Holocaust
  • Leader of the Soviet Union (Russia) during World War 2
    Joseph Stalin
  • Victory in Europe came after
    Truman became president
    US bombed Japan
    Germany Surrendered
    Japan Surrendered
  • Group of African American fighter pilots that fought in WW2
    Tuskegee Airmen
  • Which main countries made up the Axis Powers in WW2?
    Germany, Italy, and Japan
  • Prejudice or cruel and unfair treatment against Jews
    anti-semitism
  • American President who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan ending WW2
    Robert E Lee
    Harry Truman
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Amy Rigdon
  • the day the Allies celebrated victory over Germany
    VE Day (Victory in Europe Day)
  • a leader who gains complete control over a country's government
    dictator
  • What major countries made up the Allied powers of World War 2
    Great Britain, Russia (Soviet Union) France, and US
    Puerto Rico, Europe, and Brazil
    Japan, Germany, Italy
  • President Truman appointed _______________ as one of the original US representatves to the United Nations
    Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Gardens planted by families to help with World War 2
    Victory Gardens
  • powerful nuclear bomb that can destroy entire cities
    atomic bomb
  • United States president when World War 2 started
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Leader of Great Britain during World War 2
    Winston Churchill
  • Suicide missions by Japanese pilots in WW2
    kamikaze
  • Restricting how much people can buy
    rationing
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