1. World War II Review

2. What was the name of the Treaty the ended WWI?
Treaty of Versailles

3. This is a form of totalitarianism that glorified the State above the individual-
Fascism

4. Economic difficulties Political difficulties Instability
What difficulties were faced by countries such as Italy and Germany post World War I?
Economic difficulties Political difficulties Instability

5. What country did Germany invade to start World War II?
Poland

6. Germany giving Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to Germany was an example of?
Appeasement

7. What was the stance of the United States upon the start of WWII?
neutrality

8. What was Roosevelt referring to when he said, “a date that would live in infamy?”
Pearl Harbor

9. The Munich Agreement was an example of what policy?
Appeasement

10. What event brought the United States directly into World War II?
Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese

11. What was the most decisive battle on the European front of World War II?
D-Day Invasion

12. Where did the Allied troops land on D-Day?
Normandy, France

13. This is the policy of leaders giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep peace.
Appeasement

14. What battle was considered the turning point in the Pacific?
Battle of Midway

15. What was the Holocaust?
Systematic killing of millions of Jews and other groups under Adolf Hitler and Nazi rule

16. What domestic issue did the United States involvement in World War II solve?
The Great Depression

17. Went to work taking jobs in factories
How did the role of women change in the United States during World War II?
Went to work taking jobs in factories

18. Franklin Roosevelt broke Presidential precedent by doing what in 1940?
Running for a third term

19. Korematsu V. The United States
The Supreme Court case that affirmed it was legal to intern the Japanese Americans during World War II
Korematsu V. The United States

20. Need for national security to be more important than individual
What was the justification for the relocation of the Japanese Americans during World War II?
Need for national security to be more important than individual

21. What was the name of the trial that was a result of The Holocaust and other atrocities committed by the Nazis?
Nuremberg War Trial

22. What cities in Japan did the United States drop the atomic bomb on?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki

23. How did Harry Truman justify dropping the atomic bomb on Japan?
Ending the war would save many American lives

24. What was the United States trying to accomplish by using the atomic bomb on Japan?
Japan to surrender

25. What was the U. S. policy that forced nations buying goods from the U
What was the U.S. policy that forced nations buying goods from the U.S. to use their own ships and pay cash for the goods?
Cash and Carry

26. What policy provided aid to Allied powers, specifically Great Britain and the Soviet Union?
Lend-Lease Act

27. What organization was established in 1945 and was established to discuss problems and avoid war?
United Nations

28. What was the purpose of the United Nations?
Peacekeeping organization