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Ch.24 11/19/13 Studyguide
The beginning of WWII
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11th Grade
11/19/2013

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Term
List the three main Axis powers?
Definition
Japan, Italy, and Germany
Term
What led to many Americans to support isolationism after WWI?
Definition

Other countries were becoming dictatorships,

the depression,

and the Nye Committee findings.

Term
Name three privileges the Numberg laws took away from the Jewish people?
Definition

They lost their Driver's Licenses,

had to wear yellow stars and

White Js on passports

Term
Three factors that limited Jewish immigration?
Definition

Charge for moving into other countries,

immigration quotas,

and the high unemployment rate

Term
How did FDR get around American neutrality in order to aid the British?
Definition

Hemispheric Defense Zone

Lend-Lease Act

Destroyer for Bases

Term
List three events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
Definition
  • US passed the Export Control Act
  • Roosevelt froze Japan's assets and reduced oil sent to them
  • Japan allied with Germany and Italy
Term
What was the mass killing of millions of European Jews by the Nazis?
Definition
Holocaust
Term
What took citizenship away from the Jewish Germans?
Definition
Numberg Laws
Term
What act restricted the sale of strategic materials to other nations?
Definition
Export Control Act
Term
What battle was fought between the British and German air force?
Definition
Battle of Britain
Term
Who did Hitler blame Germany's defeat in WWI on?
Definition
Jewish people
Term
What was signed between FDR and Churchill that committed the two leaders to a postwar world of democracy, non-aggression, and free trade?
Definition
Atlantic Charter
Term
Where did Nazi leaders plan the "final solution"?
Definition
Wannasee Conference
Term
What was established in response to FDR's destroyers for bases deal, and was composed of strong isolationists that opposed any American intervention to the Allies?
Definition
America First Committee
Term
What country's ideology was most similar to Germany?
Definition
USSR
Term
After being trapped in Belgium, what was the only port remaining open for Britain and France to evacuate?
Definition
Dunkirk
Term
What technology helped Britain win their battle?
Definition

Radar

Subways

Term
Materials important for fighting a war?
Definition
Stratedgic Materials
Term
What was the name given to the military units that intimidated voters into helping the Nazis gain power?
Definition
Stormtroopers
Term
What two events started WWII?
Definition

Germany and USSR invaded Poland

Britain and France declared war on Germany

Term
What Baltic sea port did Hitler demand the return of from Poland?
Definition
Danzig
Term
What is the German term for Living Space?
Definition
Lebensraum
Term
What German word stands for lightening war?
Definition
Blitzkrieg
Term
What was the unification of Austria?
Definition
Auschluss
Term
What was the German Airforce?
Definition
Luftwaffe
Term
What was the idea that trade between nations helps to prevent war?
Definition
Internationalism
Term
French fortifications along the German border were called what?
Definition
Maginot Line
Term
What was the largest Nazi Extermination Camp?
Definition
Auschwitz
Term
What was the largest Nazi concentration camp?
Definition
Buchenwald
Term
What was the Nazi Secret Police?
Definition
Gestapo
Term
What was the night of anti-jew violence?
Definition
Kristalnacht
Term
What area did the Japanese invade to get resources?
Definition
Manchuria
Term
What did the Nye Committee believe influenced American into entering WWI?
Definition
Arms Sales
Term
What caused the rise of dictatorships after WWI?
Definition

Treaty of Versallies

Economic Depression

Term
What did the Nazi's final solution refer to?
Definition

Extermination of Jews

Extermination Camps

Term
What was the purpose of the Lend-Lease Act?
Definition
Trade arms for cash and only if other countries would ship carry them back
Term
Other than the Jews, what other groups did the Nazis show hatred for?
Definition

Homosexuals

Elderly

Slavic people

Disabled

Term
What was the secret deal in the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression treaty?
Definition
Split Poland
Term
Adolf Hitler
Definition

German Dictator

Supported by the Stormtroopers

Nazi

Term
Benito Mussolini
Definition

Facist

Italy

The Black Shirts

Anticommunist

Term
Joseph Stalin
Definition

USSR

Communist

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