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What was the Treaty of Versailles ? ended WW1 punished Germany a cause of WW2

1. What was the Treaty of Versailles ? ended WW1 punished Germany a cause of WW2. 2. How did the Treaty of Versailles help cause World War II ? made Germany pay reparations. 3. What is totalitarianism? Which nations had totalitarian governments before World War II ?

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What was the Treaty of Versailles ? ended WW1 punished Germany a cause of WW2

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  1. 1 • What was the Treaty of Versailles? • ended WW1 • punished Germany • a cause of WW2

  2. 2 • How did the Treaty of Versailles help cause World War II? • made Germany pay reparations

  3. 3 • What is totalitarianism? Which nations had totalitarian governments before World War II? • government has total control over the lives of the people • Soviet Union, Japan, Italy, Germany

  4. 4 • What is fascism? • extremely nationalistic form of government • encourages racism • Italy and Germany

  5. 5 • Who legally gained control of Germany in 1933 and then ruled as a totalitarian dictator? • Hitler

  6. 6 • Which nation invaded China and Manchuria in the 1930s? • Japan

  7. 7 • Which nation invaded Ethiopia in 1935? • Italy

  8. 8 • Which nation invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s? • Germany

  9. 9 • What is appeasement? • gave into Hitler • Germany conquered weak neighbors

  10. 10 • Which nation refused to join the League of Nations? Why? • United States • isolationism

  11. 11 • Which nations were members of the Axis Powers? • Germany • Italy • Japan

  12. 12 • Which nations were members of the Allies? • Britain • France • Soviet Union • United States

  13. 13 • Who was the leader of Italy? • Mussolini

  14. 14 • Who was Japan’s emperor? • Hirohito

  15. 15 • Who was Japan’s prime minister and military leader? • Tojo

  16. 16 • Who was Germany’s leader? • Hitler

  17. 17 • Who was the leader of the Soviet Union? • Stalin

  18. 18 • Who were Britain’s leaders? • Chamberlain • Churchill

  19. 19 • Who were the two U.S. presidents? • Roosevelt • Truman

  20. 20 • Who was the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe? • Eisenhower

  21. 21 • The invasion of which nation started the war in Europe? • Poland

  22. 22 • What was blitzkrieg? • “lightning war” • rapid attack using tanks, artillery, infantry and planes

  23. 23 • In which battle did the British Royal Air Force hold off the German invasion of Britain? • Battle of Britain

  24. 24 • What was Lend-Lease? • U.S. program that gave money to the Allies

  25. 25 • Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies? • Hitler broke the Non-aggression Pact and invaded

  26. 26 • Why did the Japanese decide to attack Pearl Harbor? • so Japan could invade SE Asia • to weaken and intimidate the U.S.

  27. 27 • Which Pacific battle put the Japanese on the defensive for the rest of the war and is considered the turning point? • Midway

  28. 28 • Which German general is known as the Desert Fox? • Rommel

  29. 29 • Which bloody Soviet victory is considered the turning point in Europe? • Stalingrad

  30. 30 • What was the War Production Board’s responsibility? • converted peacetime industries for the war • rationing • scrap metal

  31. 31 • How did the U.S. make up for the labor shortage faced during the war? • women • minorities

  32. 32 • How did the U.S. government pay for the war? • war bonds

  33. 33 • What was the Double V campaign? • African American campaign against fascism and discrimination

  34. 34 • What was Executive Order 9066? • Forced Japanese Americans into internment camps

  35. 35 • Why did the US establish internment camps? • believed Japanese Americans were a potential threat

  36. 36 • What was the Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu v. United States? Why? • against Korematsu • national emergency outweighed his individual rights

  37. 37 • What is propaganda? • organized spreading of ideas to influence public opinion

  38. 38 • What is D-Day? • Allied invasion of France • largest sea-land operation • planned by Eisenhower

  39. 39 • What was the Holocaust? • murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis

  40. 40 • What did Hitler blame Jews for? • Germany’s defeat in WW1

  41. 41 • What was the Final Solution? • attempt to wipe out all Jews

  42. 42 • Who were the Navajo Code Talkers? • Native American radio operators • code was never broken

  43. 43 • What was a kamikaze? • suicide attack by a Japanese pilot

  44. 44 • The huge losses at the Battle of Okinawa helped convince Truman to do what? • use the atomic bomb

  45. 45 • What was the Manhattan Project? • U.S. project that built the 1st atomic bomb

  46. 46 • What was the main reason the US decided to use atomic bombs against the Japanese? • avoid a ground invasion and save American lives

  47. 47 • Trials were held to try Nazi leaders for war crimes in which German city? • Nuremberg

  48. 48 • What international peacekeeping organizational was established at the end of the war to replace the League of Nations? • United Nations

  49. 49 • What does the 14th Amendment guarantee? • equal protection of the laws

  50. 50 • What is segregation? • separation of the races

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