Transcript WWII Review - Brimley Area Schools

World at War
REVIEW
War fought from 1939 to 1945 between the
Allies and the Axis, involving most
countries in the world. The United States
joined the Allies in 1941, helping them to
victory.
What is World War II?
He was U.S. President during most of World
War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Form of government in which individual
freedoms are denied and the government
has complete power; a form of aggressive
nationalism.
What is Fascism?
A leader with complete control of a
country’s government.
What is a dictator?
Policy that allowed the United States to sell
old arms to other countries for cash only
and they would take them away.
What is cash and carry?
Resource-rich area of China that Japan
invaded in 1931.
What is Manchuria?
The leader of communist U.S.S.R. during
World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Hitler’s book containing his thoughts and
beliefs about German unification.
What is Mein Kampf?
Dictator of Spain after the Spanish Civil
War.
Who is Franco?
Alliance formed in 1936 between Italy and
Germany.
What is the Rome-Berlin Alliance?
This law was passed by Congress in 1935
to prevent the United States from selling
arms to any country at war.
What is the Neutrality Act?
The unification of Germany.
What is Anschluss?
“Living Space” or “Living Room”
What is lebensraum?
The political party that Adolf Hitler
belonged to.
What is the Nazi Party?
Name given for the alliance formed
between Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What is the Axis Powers?
Part of Czechoslovakia with a large
German-speaking population.
What is the Sudetenland?
Ships in formation at Pearl Harbor.
What is Battleship Row?
Admiral of the Japanese Navy who planned
Pearl Harbor.
Who is Isoroku Yamamoto?
Baltic sea port with strong German roots.
What is Danzig, Poland?
Approximate number of American killed at
Pearl Harbor.
What is 2,400?
Britain wanted to buy some old destroyers
from the United States because they had
lost about half of theirs to the Germans.
FDR wanted to help but this would clearly
violate the Neutrality Act. How did FDR
get “around” the law?
BONUS! 3 POINTS!
In exchange for the right to build American
bases on Newfoundland, Bermuda, and
islands in the Caribbean, America sent 50
old destroyers to Britain.
The reason the Japanese didn’t order a
third wave of attack.
They didn’t know where the American
carriers were.
What the Americans called the war in
western Europe.
What is “Phony War”?
Concrete bunkers and fortifications along
the German border built by the French
after World War I.
What is the Maginot Line?
Demilitarized zone between France and
Germany. Hitler violated the Versailles
Treaty with military occupation in 1936.
What is the Rhineland?
“Lightening War”
What is Blitzkrieg?
The French didn’t think the German army
could send their main force through this
forest. Big mistake…
What are the Ardennes Mountains?
British Prime Minister in 1940.
Who is Winston Churchill?
German airforce.
What is Luftwaffe?
Because Germany depended on iron
shipments from Sweden, Hitler and his
generals decided to attack these two
countries before invading France.
What are Norway and Denmark?
New technology used during World War II
that detected enemy aircraft.
What is radar?