History test ww2 grade 10
countries involved in the war
Germany Italy, Japan, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Poland, Great Britain, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece, USA
Who is the leader of Germany?
Adolf Hitler
Who is the leader of Italy?
benitomussolini
Who is the leader of Japan?
hirohito
Who is the leader of France?
charles de gaule
Who is the leader of Great Britain?
winston church hill
who is the leader of canada?
makenzie king
who is the leader of usa
franklin rosevelt
what countries were in the axis powers
Germany, Italy, Japan, hungary, Romania, Bulgaria
when did Hitler become the leader of Germany
1933
when were the axis powers created?
1936
in what year did Hitler take over Austria and Czechoslovakia?
1938
how did Hitler break the Paris peace agreement
he took over Rhineland
what is the munich peace agreement?
a agreement that hitler would not take any more land to resolve conflict
dictator
A ruler that has control over a country
fascism
Fascism is a form of government which most of the country's power is held by one ruler or a small group, under a single party.
nazism
totalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler as head of the Nazi Party in Germany
ss st louis
German boat May–June 1939 when Cuba, the United States, and Canada denied entry to its more than 900 Jewish passengers, most of whom had fled Nazi Germany
d day invasion
the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings
dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was fought around the French port of Dunkirk during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany
enigma
a divice that could make codes
anschluss
add on to their country
scape goat
a person whom is blamed for things they didnt do
dieppe raid
allied attak on germans
kristallnacht
also known as the night of broken glass. horrific night for jews
ve day
victory in europe day may 8 1945
germany surrenders
antisemitism
the hatred against jews
holocaust
genocide of jews during ww2
atomic bomb
bombs that were dropped on nigashaki and hiroshima
what were the atomic bombs called
little boy
fat man
vj day
victory over japen. japen surrenderd sept 2nd 1945
lebensraum
expansion
battle of britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces.
nuremburg trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of criminal justice proceedings held by the victorious Allies against the surviving high ranking officials of the defeated Nazi German state for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II.
canadas involvement in ww2
During the Second World War, Canadians defended the east and the west coasts and fought in a series of long and difficult campaigns — on land, at sea and in the air — to defeat the German, Italian and Japanese forces. More than 1.1 million Canadian men and women served in the armed forces.
the allies
Belgium
France
United States
Australia
New Zealand
United Kingdom