1. WWII Flashcards Created for student review TEST MARCH 9th! TH!

2. WHAT IS A GULAG?

3. LABOR CAMP THAT STALIN SENT ENEMIES TO

4. who was the italian dictator?

5. benito mussolini

6. who was the german dictator?

7. adolf hitler

8. who was the japanese dictator?

9. hideki tojo

10. who was the british prime minister known for his foreign policy of appeasement?

11. neville chamberlain british prime minister 1937-1940

12. Who was the British prime minister during wwII?

13. winston churchill 1940-1945 British prime minister

14. who was the american president for most of wwii?

15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt American president 1933-1945

16. who succeeded roosevelt after his death in 1945?

17. harry s truman american president 1945-1953

18. who were the axis powers?

19. germany, italy, japan

20. who were the allies?

21. united states, england, russia

22. what are the 3 parts to an army?

23. artillery-launching projectiles calvary-using riding as a way to disrupt the enemy infantry-foot soldiers

24. what was the german strategy that meant “lightning quick” strikes

25. blitzkrieg

26. when did wwii begin?

27. september 1, 1939

28. what is facism?

29. extreme nationalism

30. where did hitler first send german troops

31. rhineland, german land made neutral by treaty of versailles

32. what area of czechoslovakia did hitler want?

33. sudetenland, a german speaking area of czech

34. How did hitler get sudetenland without fighting?

35. Munich conference=appeasement

36. What date will “live in infamy”

37. December 7, 1941 japan attacks pearl harbor

38. what happened june 6, 1944

39. D-Day, allied invasion of normandy, france

40. What is the term for systematically wiping out an entire group of people?

41. genocide

42. hitler killed _______ jews in the holocaust

43. 6 million

44. what amerian general used “island hopping” in the pacific theater?

45. douglas macarthur

46. where did the u.s. drop an atomic bomb?

47. the japanese islands of hiroshima and nagasaki

48. when was v-j day?

49. august 15, 1945

50. how many people died in WWii?

51. 55 million

53. three pronged attack