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America and the World---WWII

WWII Begins

The Holocaust

America Enters the

WarTrivia

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This fascist leader destroyed democracy and

set up a dictatorship in Italy.

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Who is Benito Mussolini?

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The leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

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Who is Vladimir Lenin?

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Soviet dictator that brought deaths of 8 to 10 million

peasants in the Soviet Union.

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Who is Joseph Stalin?

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This country targeted Manchuria for natural resources in the 1930s.

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What is Japan?

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This act made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to

any country at war.

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What is the Neutrality Act of 1935?

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The British Prime Minister most closely

associated with the policy of appeasement.

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Who is Neville Chamberlain?

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French fortification built after WWI.

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What is the Maginot Line?

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This leader of Britain said…“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to

so few.”

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Who is Winston Churchill?

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German warfare strategy that used tanks to break

through fortifications and rapidly encircle enemy

positions.

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What is Blitzkrieg?

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A secret deal to divide Poland between Germany

and the Soviet Union.

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What is the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact?

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The catastrophe that killed nearly 6 million Jews.

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What is the Holocaust?

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Hitler outlined his racial policies in his book entitled

this.

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What is Mein Kampf.

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These took citizenship away from Jewish

Germans and banned marriage between Jews and

Germans.

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What are the Nuremberg Laws?

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This was held in Berlin to determine the “final

solution of the Jewish question.”

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What is the Wannsee Conference?

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Some 1.6 million people died at this concentration camp, 1.3 million were

Jews.

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What is Auschwitz?

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“…a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the

naval and air forces of Japan…”

Roosevelt

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What was December 7, 1941.

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Any group that firmly opposed any American intervention or aid to the

Allies is considered this.

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What is isolationist?

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This act meant that the US could send weapons to

Britain if they promised to return or pay rent for them

after the war.

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What is the Lend-Lease Act?

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The Greer and the Reuben James, both American

destroyers, were attacked by this

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What are German U-boats?

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Article I, Section Eight of the Constitution gives the power to declare war to

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Who is Congress?

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This term is used to describe the “thawing” of tensions during the Cold

War.

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What is détente?

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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the

death your right to say it.

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Who is Voltaire?

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In 1927, this person flew the first solo transatlantic

flight.

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Who is Charles Lindbergh?

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This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld the separate-

but-equal doctrine used by the Southern states to perpetuate segregation

after the Civil War.

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What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

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A young, dramatic, stylish, and unconventional women

in the 1920s.

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What is a flapper?