The Nye Committee report created the impression that America’s entry into World War I was influenced by:
American arms manufacturers.
Stalin agreed to a nonaggression treaty with Germany because he believed
That it would turn Germany against Britain and France and keep the USSR safe
That the secret portion of the treaty would give the USSR part of Poland
What did the Nuremberg Laws do?
Took German citizenship away from Jewish Germans.
Prior to WWII, to get resources, the Japanese military invaded
Manchuria
The Neutrality Act of 1935 made it illegal for…
Americans to sell arms to any country at war
In the Munich Conference, Britain and France…
gave in to Hitler’s demands for the SudetenlandThis policy was known as appeasement
The Nazi-Soviet nonaggression treaty contained a secret deal to…
divide Poland between them
What happened in the Battle of Britain?
the Royal Air Force saved Britain from invasion
Widely seen as the start of the Holocaust, a night of anti- Jewish violence became known as…
Kristallnacht
Two causes of the rise of dictatorships after World War I were…
the Treaty of Versailles and economic depression.
Roosevelt sent destroyers to Britain in exchange for…
U.S. bases on British-held territory
The Lend-Lease Act was Roosevelt’s way of getting arms to Britain without Britain having to…
pay cash
Adolf Hitler blamed Germany’s defeat in World War I on the
Jews (and Bolsheviks)
One of the new political parties to rise during the political and economic chaos in Germany after World War I was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, also known as the _____________ party.
Nazi
Japan’s goal in attacking Midway was to…
destroy the American fleet
Iwo Jima was an important objective for the American military because…
U.S. planes could bomb Japan from there
Where did the Bataan Death March occur?
the Philippines
In the case Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that relocation of Japanese Americans was Constitutional or unconstitutional? Why?
constitutional because it was based on military urgency
At the Tehran Conference, Roosevelt and Stalin agreed to…
divide Germany after the war
How did the successes of the Tuskegee Airmen and other African American units influence U.S. military policy?
President Truman fully integrated the military in 1948 following the war.
What was a major problem in the Weimar Republic?
Hyperinflation
Hitler essentially received unlimited power when the Nazi party passed what act?
Enabling Act
The ideas of the Nazi party were particularly desirable to what two groups?