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36

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28

35

42

Question 1

What are two causes of the rise of dictatorship after WWI?

The peace treaty & economic depression

Question 2

What did the Nuremburg laws do?

Took citizenship away from Jewish Germans

Question 3

What was a night of anti Jewish violence known as?

Kristallnacht

Question 4

The Neutrality Act of 1935 made it illegal to do what?

Americans to sell arms to any country at war

Question 5

What are the Axis countries?

Germany, Italy, & Japan

Question 6

What happened in the Battle of Britain?

The Royal Air Force saved Britain from invasion

Question 7

Roosevelt sent destroyers to Britain in exchange for what?

U.S. bases on British-held territory

Question 8

The cost plus system sped up war production how?

Providing larger profits for companies that worked fast and produced a lot

Question 9

The British & French realized that appeasement had failed when Hitler did what?

Made demands for territory in Poland

Question 10

Why did Roosevelt decide to invade Morocco and Algeria?

Help the British troops fight the Germans in Egypt

Question 11

Roosevelt created the Fair Employment Practices Commission to do what?

End discrimination in hiring workers in defense industries

Question 12

What were blue and red points used for in WWII?

Rationing goods

Question 13

The Nazis’ final solution referred to their plans to do what?

Exterminate Europe’s Jews

Question 14

Why did the Allies place inflated rubber tanks, empty tents, and dummy landing craft along the coast of Britain?

To convince the Germans the Allies planned to land their invasion forces in Pas-de-Calais

Question 15

Nearly 1/3 of all military equipment made during the war was manufactured by what industry?

automobile

Question 16

The Nye Committee report created the impression that America’s entry into WWI was influenced by what group?

American arms manufactures

Question 17

In the Munich Conference, Britain & France did what?

Gave in to Hitler’s demands for the Sudetenland

Question 18

Liberty ships could be produced quickly because why?

They were assembled from prefabricated parts

Question 19

Where did the Bataan Death March occur? Philippines

Question 20

Stalin agreed to a nonaggression treaty with Germany because he believed what?

That it would turn Germany against France & Britain and keep USSR safe

Question 21

Capturing Stalingrad was the key to Hitler’s strategy to do what?

Destroy the Soviet economy

Question 22

In the case Korematsu v. U.S., the Supreme Court ruled that relocation of Japanese Americans was what?

Constitutional because it was based on military urgency

Question 23

What did the Nazi leaders plan at the Wannsee Conference?

The Final Solution

Question 24

As a result of the attack on Sicily, what happened to Mussolini?

Arrested by the Italian king

Question 25

The first area that Hitler unified with Germany was where?

Austria

Question 26

Iwo Jima was an important objective for American military because why?

U.S. planes could bomb Japan from there

Question 27

In presenting his four freedoms, Roosevelt was trying to do what?

Shift public opinion toward helping Britain

Question 28

The U.S. Marines has severe causalities at Tarawa in part because why?

The shallow reef prevented many landing craft from reaching shore

Question 29

At Yalta, the leaders agreed to recognize the Polish government that the Soviets had set up if Stalin agreed to what?

Hold free elections there as soon as possible

Question 30

What did the Soviets want the Germans to pay?

Reparations

Question 31

Which country was defeated in May 1945 to cause V-E Day?

Germany

Question 32

The Nazi-Soviet nonaggression treaty contained a secret deal to do what?

Divide Poland between them

Question 33

Migrant farm workers became an important part of the Southwest’s agricultural system as a result of what?

The Bracero Program

Question 34

The U.S. caused massive fires in Tokyo by dropping bombs filled with what?

napalm

Question 35

A key to the American success at Midway was what?

Breaking the Japanese Navy’s secret code

Question 36

Roosevelt created the Fair Employment Practices Commission as a result of what?

A threatened protest of over 10,000 African American men seeking jobs

Question 37

What happened to most of the Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis?

Died in Nazi “Final Solution”

Question 38

During WWII, Why did Americans buy $150 million in war bonds?

Loan the government money to pay for the war

Question 39

The Lend-Lease Act was Roosevelt’s way of getting arms to Britain without Britain having to do what?

Pay cash

Question 40

Japan’s goal in attacking Midway Island was what?

Destroy the American fleet

Question 41

Where did Japan invade to get resources?

Manchuria

Question 42

What group of people did Adolf Hitler blame for Germany’s defeat in WWI?

Jews