Tokyo Rose

 

Cicero

 

Joseph Stansbury

 

John André

 

Belzec

 

Babi Yar

 

Dachau

 

Ravensbrück

 

Operation Barbarossa

 

Battle of Tannenberg

 

Operation Overlord

 

Battle of the Bulge

 

Yalta Agreement

 

Moscow Declaration

 

Potsdam Declaration

 

London Agreement

 

Leningrad

 

London

 

Stalingrad

 

Berlin

 

Ronald Reagan

 

John F. Kennedy

 

Donald Trump

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Confessing Church

 

German Evangelical church

 

Unitarianism

 

Roman Catholic Church

 

Winston Churchill

 

Neville Chamberlain

 

Joseph Chamberlain

 

Benjamin Disraeli

 

Potsdam Conference

 

Casablanca Conference

 

San Francisco Conference

 

Yalta Conference

 

April Laws

 

March Laws

 

Nürnberg Laws

 

Baumes Laws

 

Germans were angry about the nation’s failing economy.

 

German people were becoming more and more distrustful of other races and cultures.

 

Germans were angry about what all they were forced to give up in the Treaty of Versailles.

 

all of the above

 

Adolf Hitler

 

Nikita Khrushchev

 

Joseph Stalin

 

Benito Mussolini

 

America opted to remain neutral.

 

America quickly worked with allies to aggressively stand up to the oppressive regimes.

 

America sold vast amounts of weapons to any and all nations willing to buy them.

 

American supported some of these nations and spoke out against others.

 

The nations agreed to divide the European continent into three separate regions of control.

 

The three nations agreed to reinstate open trade.

 

The three nations agreed to avoid actions designed to entice American involvement in European affairs.

 

Britain and France agreed to appease Germany by giving into Hitler’s demands to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in exchange for an end to further German expansion.

 

Hitler and Stalin were longtime friends, the pact simply formalized their alignment.

 

Hitler wanted to invade Poland without Stalin feeling threatened.

 

Stalin wanted to attack Poland but did not want Hitler to mistake the action as a potential threat on Germany.

 

Hitler wanted Stalin’s help invading Poland.

 

perestroika

 

Third Reich

 

blitzkrieg

 

Kristallnacht

 

Germany, the Soviet Union, and Italy

 

Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy, and Japan

 

Germany, Italy, and Japan

 

Germany and Italy

 

Hitler relentlessly bombed and harassed Great Britain, but was not able to take control of the island nation.

 

Hitler laid waste to much of Britain’s major cities and industrial centers resulting in a reluctant British surrender.

 

The British decimated Hitler’s forces and immediately began a successful counter-offensive into mainland Europe.

 

French forces used the battle as a distraction to reclaim their country from the Nazi invaders.

 

America immediately joined in the conflict by sending weapons, money, and troops to England in large quantities.

 

America continued a policy of neutrality, but began putting pieces in place to prepare for war.

 

The American public and political leaders were largely unmoved by the war growing in Europe and felt little concern for its impact.

 

America doubled-down on even stricter neutrality policies to make it even more unlikely America would enter the European war.

 

The act allowed American business to take out loans from foreign banks for the first time since before World War I.

 

The act permitted the sale, lease, or loan of arms and funds to other countries as long as it would prove to be a benefit to America.

 

It shut down any bank with German or Italian holdings.

 

It allowed foreign nations to borrow American war experts as consultants in an effort to prevent further American involvement in the war.

 

Roosevelt imposed harsh economic sanctions upon Japan.

 

Roosevelt launched a full naval assault on Japan.

 

Roosevelt convinced Britain to lend ships and troops to help slow the Japanese expansion.

 

all of the above

 

the discovery of Nazi concentration and death camps throughout Europe

 

the formal request made by Winston Churchill to FDR

 

the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

 

the sinking of an American passenger ship by a German U-boat

 

America was unprepared for the economic burdens of war and fell into a recession.

 

The American economy remained largely isolated from foreign affairs and thus was unaffected by the war.

 

The war led to a boom in industrial production and a major increase in employment.

 

The American economy thrived during the war thanks to a renewed focus on agriculture rather than industry.

 

Women joined the military in record numbers.

 

Women joined the work force in record numbers.

 

Women participated in war efforts at home like growing gardens and finding creative ways to do without rationed items.

 

all of the above

 

Tens of thousands of Japanese Americans served as American translators and spies in the counter-offensive against the Japanese.

 

Over 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps and held there for the majority of the war.

 

Japanese-Americans were able to find jobs in record numbers thanks to the large proportion of the American male population fighting overseas.

 

Japanese-Americans were treated no differently than any other American culture group during the war.

 

Japan

 

the English Channel

 

the border of the Soviet Union

 

Northern Africa

 

The Allies lost a long campaign in Italy against a stalwart German and Italian force.

 

The Allies were able to force Mussolini to give up rather quickly, but Hitler and the Nazis continued to contest the territory for nearly a year.

 

The Allies were able to take control of Italy in only a few months.

 

The Allies were able to drive the German forces out of Italy rather quickly, but Mussolini and his forces prolonged the fight for another year and a half.

 

Germany was able to greatly cripple the Soviet war effort with successful sieges of the three crucial cities.

 

Germany was not able to take Leningrad, but by keeping Soviet forces occupied there, the German army was able to successfully take Moscow and Stalingrad.

 

Germany was able to take Moscow and Leningrad, but Stalingrad proved to be too formidable a challenge.

 

Germany was not able to capture and hold any of the three major Soviet cities and, as a result, wasted valuable time, soldiers, and resources.

 

The Allies aimed to push into German territory by crossing the Baltic Sea from Scandinavia.

 

The Allies aimed to push into German territory by crossing the English Channel from Britain.

 

The Allies aimed to push into German territory on the eastern front by crossing the Soviet border into Poland.

 

all of the above

 

Despite a strong initial surge, the Germans were defeated at the Battle of the Bulge and would never fully recover from the loss.

 

The Germans were successful in their attack into the Belgian front and were able to slow the Allies’ momentum.

 

The battle was a stalemate and neither side gained any ground.

 

none of the above

 

to defeat the Allies and control all of the territory in mainland Europe

 

to totally eliminate the Jewish race

 

to assassinate the leaders of the Allied nations

 

all of the above

 

Roosevelt handed over control for rebuilding post-war Europe to Stalin and Churchill in exchange for total control over rebuilding the post-war Pacific.

 

Stalin agreed to join the war in the Pacific against Japan in exchange for some of the Asian territories that had been under German control.

 

Stalin would take the Soviet Union out of the war militarily, but would continue to contribute to the Allied cause financially.

 

Churchill and Stalin agreed to leave the fight in the Pacific entirely to the United States.

 

blitzkrieg

 

island hopping

 

espionage

 

total war

 

Guam provided more of a moral victory for the Allies than a strategic one.

 

Guam was the first Pacific island captured by General MacArthur.

 

Guam gave the Allies a launching point close enough for aerial and naval attacks on the main Japanese islands.

 

Guam was only held by the American forces for a single day before being recaptured by the Japanese.

 

to declare the war in the Pacific was officially over

 

to give the Japanese a chance to surrender before Truman ordered the use of the atomic bomb

 

to announce a partnership between the Philippines and the Allies

 

to formally apologize for the use of the atomic bomb

 

Over 100,000 people were killed by the bomb blasts and resulting radiation illnesses.

 

It would lead to the Japanese surrender less than two weeks later.

 

The ecological impact of the bombs’ radiation was felt for years and for miles beyond the initial blast radius.

 

all of the above

 

The Allies defeated the Axis Powers with a fairly insignificant cost to both human life and national resources.

 

The Allies defeated the Axis Powers in the largest and deadliest military conflict in history.

 

The Axis Powers were able to hold out against a stronger Allied force resulting in little change in the geopolitical landscape.

 

The Axis Powers were able to significantly expand their territorial holdings.

 

Those leaders who were unable to disappear into exile were forced to stand trial for war crimes.

 

The vast majority of Axis leaders sought, and were granted, forgiveness for their acts during the war.

 

Most Axis leaders accepted responsibility for their actions and did not have to face consequences that were especially severe.

 

Only a handful of Axis leaders actually made it through the final days of the war alive.