World War II
What policy did European leaders use to give Hitler what he wanted to save peace?
A policy of appeasement
Turning point of African war
Battle of Alamein
Turning point of pacific war
Battle of Midway
Turning point of eastern front
Battle of Stalingrad
Gen. Douglas MacArthur continued the conquest of the Pacific using a strategy called
"Island Hopping"
American scientists develop an Atomic Bomb through the What led by who
"Manhattan Project" led by J. Robert Oppenheimer
German leader
Adolf Hitler
Who reigned over Italy in the name of Fascism?
Benito Mussolini
The 1931 conquest of what region in China by the Japanese represented a serious threat to peace?
Chinese Manchuria
Significance of the Trade Agreement Act
Created "most favored nation" status, Potential trick question: Phillips might ask what countries with the "most favored nation status" got. They were offered the lowest tariff rate.
Date of Pearl Harbor
December 7th, 1941
Conference at Tehran
Decided to invade France
Potsdam Conference
Demanded Japan surrender
US general
Douglas MacArthur
Us general #2
Eisenhower
German general
Erwin Rommel
US leaders
FDR and Truman
Aug. 6, 1945- U.S. dropped the Atomic bomb on l. .
Hiroshima
Yalta conference
How to split up Germany
Date of D-Day
June 6th, 1944
Who was leading the communist Soviet Union during this time?
Joseph Stalin
This was challenged in the 1944 case ?
Korematsu v. United States
The NYE Committee referred to the munitions and banking industries as
Merchants of death
British general
Montgomery
Italy leader
Mussolini
Aug. 9, 1945- ? was bombed and Japan surrenders
Nagasaki
Adolf Hitlers ideals were called
Nazism
Difference between Nazism and Fascism
Nazism was racist
Turning point of western front
Normandy Invasion (D-Day) - 1944
Name the incident where Japanese planes bomb a U.S gunboat killing several Americans
Panay Incident
Who created the Nye Committee?
Senator Gerald Nye
Date of invasion of Poland
Sept 1st 1939
USSR Soviet Union leader
Stalin
The US created this in response to the conquest of Chinese Manchuria, stating that they refused to recognize territorial acquisitions taken by force.
Stimson Doctrine
What is Hitler given in the Munich Pact signed by Germany, Britain, France & Italy?
Sudetenland (Western Czechoslovakia)
What acts prohibited selling weapons to warring nations in order to preserve isolationism?
The 1930s Neutrality Acts
Germany, Italy and Japan form a military alliance, calling themselves what
The Axis Powers
Franklin Roosevelt began what policy to establish friendly relations with other nations?
The Good Neighbor Policy
This committee sought to determine the involvement of industries in the US's decision to enter WW1.
The NYE Committee Potential trick question: Mr Phillips might ask what it was created for. Creator said "Profits not policy."
FDR advocated that peaceful nations should isolate aggressors in what speech?
The Quarantine Speech
Great Britain leader
Winston Churchill
