WWII Review

WWII Leaders Churchill – Allied Power (Great Britian) Hitler – Axis (Germany) Mussolini – Axis (Italy) Stalin – Allied (Soviet Union) aka. Russia aka. USSR Tojo – Axis (Japan)

Dates Sept 1, 1939 – Invasion of Poland (Start of WWII) December 7, 1941 – Attack of Pearl Harbor (Pull the U.S. into WWII) June 6, 1944 – Allied invasion of Normandy Beach (D-Day)

Vocab Great Depression – Economic slump from 1929-1939 (Global depression) Overproduction – producing more products than there are buyers for Overspeculation – You hold onto stocks for too long ($) Treaty of Versailles – Treaty that ended WWI (caused Germany to start WWII) Fascism – type of government a lot like communism Appeasement – Allowing someone to take what they want to avoid war

Vocab Natural resources – metals, land, oil and coal Manhattan Project – The U.S. group that developed the first Atomic Bomb Albert Einstien – Told the US about German attemps to make the Atomic bomb -> starts the Manhattan Project Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Japanese cities that were bombed Crimes against humanity – Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, Atom bombs

Review Answers 12- They promised jobs and to bring countries to world power 13 – US was helping China, wouldn’t give Japan oil. 14 – Manchuria 15 – Atomic Bomb 16 – The Battle of Midway 17 – To end the war quickly, and save U.S. lives 18 – Blitzkrieg attacks by Hitler, Pearl harbor, Atom bombings

Review Answers A – The “Final Solution” was to move Jews to Extermination camps B – Shows what Jewish families went through during the holocaust C – Anti-Semitism = Anti – Jewish D – They took away the basic rights of jews, and forced them to wear a yellow star on their sleeve 19 – They try to keep the peace in the world 20 – They were divided into 2 parts – a communist part and democratic part