WW2 test

The U.S. was expected to be responsible for most of the postwar rebuilding because it:

Escaped much destruction and was then the strongest power in the world

Internment

Forced relocation and imprisonment

Warsaw Uprising

In April 1943, Jewish people rose up against the Germans, and it took nearly a month for the Nazis to crush the uprising.

Why did Japan plan a large-scale attack against the U.S. naval fleet at Pearl Harbor?

It wanted to give itself time to secure control of East Asia before the U.S. military could respond.

What was significant about America's Selective Training and Service Act in 1940?

It was the first peacetime draft in the country's history.

Why did Great Britain and France finally declare war on Germany in September 1939?

They had pledged to defend Poland against Hitler, who attacked it from the west.

Battle of Stalingrad

battle in the Soviet Union during which German forces froze or starved to death

Battle of the Bulge

counterattack launched by Germans after the D-Day invasion

Genocide

extermination of an entire group of people

Appeasement

policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving in to its demands

Harry S. Truman

president who ordered use of atomic bombs on Japan

The Bataan Death March caused the death of:

600 Americans and thousands of Filipinos.

What Tuskegee Airman later became the first African American general in the U.S. air force?

Benjamin O. Davis

The first priority of President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to defeat the Axis Powers was to:

Defeat the Germans.

Harry Truman took over as president because President Roosevelt:

Died of a stroke in April 1945

What American general was forced to retreat from the Philippines in March 1942?

Douglas MacArthur

Why did Hitler direct his anger towards intellectuals, Communists, and Jews in the 1903s?

He blamed them for Germany's economic problems and its defeat in World War I.

Battle of Leyte Gulf

In the Philippines; was the largest naval battle in history.

Allied Powers

U.S.; Great Britain; Soviet Union; China

Benito Mussolini

fascist Italian leader who allied with Hitler to form the Axis Powers

D-Day

invasion on June 6, 1944, in which thousands of Allied soldiers were killed or wounded

A. Philip Randolph

organized a march on Washington in 1941 to demand equal pay for black workers

Lend-Lease Act

policy allowing the United States to aid any nation vital to its defense

Kamikaze

tactic of purposely crashing piloted planes into enemy ships