Ch. 36

Question 0

Impartite Pact

Answer 0

a ten- year military & economic pact that Japan signed in 1940 which aligned Japan with other recisionist nations

Question 1

Nanjing

Answer 1

Capital of China. Rape of Nanjing- Japanese soldiers raped 7,000 women, murdered many unarmed soldiers, & burned 1/3 of the homes

Question 2

Munich Conference

Answer 2

September 1938- consolidation of the appeasement policy. Revealed how most nations outside the revisionist sphere had decided to deal w territorial expansion by aggressive nations

Question 3

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 3

Britain’s prime minister. Announced that the meeting had achieved “peace for our time”.

Question 4

Russian-German Treaty of Agression

Answer 4

agreement by which the two nations agreed not to attack eachother & promised neutrality in the event that any went to war with a third party

Question 5

Blitzkrieg

Answer 5

“Lightning war”. Germany stunned the world with this & sudden victory. (CHECK PAPER FOR DETAILS/ EVENTS)

Question 6

Luftwaffe

Answer 6

Germany’s Air Force which led the Battle of Britain. Rained bombs on heavily populated metropolitan areas.

Question 7

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 7

code name for the June invasion of the Soviet Union

Question 8

Pearl Harbor

Answer 8

Japanese hoped to destroy American naval capacity by attacking here to clear the way for conquest of SE Asia

Question 9

Asia for Asians

Answer 9

Slogan under which Japan pursued expansion on Asia. Implied that Japanese would lead again people’s to independence from European imperialists.

Question 10

Greater East Asian co-prosperity sphere

Answer 10

Japan needed the region’s (Asia) resources so they sought to build this

Question 11

Normany invasion

Answer 11

D-Day (June 6, 1944); British & US troops landed on the coast of Normandy, this made German resistance fade

Question 12

Magic

Answer 12

secret weapon of the U.S. which enabled cryptographer monitoring Japanese radio frequencies to discover the plan of attack on Midway

Question 13

Kamikaze

Answer 13

pilots who “volunteered” to fly planes with just enough fuel to reach an allied ship and dive bomb into it

Question 14

Wansee Conference

Answer 14

15 leading nazi bureaucrats gathered to discuss and coordinate the final solution

Question 15

Auschwitz

Answer 15

largest of the concentration camps

Question 16

comfort women

Answer 16

Japanese army forcibly recruited woman age 14-20 to serve in miletary brothels called “comfort houses”

Question 17

Warsaw Pact

Answer 17

countermeasure to NATO. A military alliance of 7 communist European nations which matched collective defensive policies of NATO

Question 18

German Democratic Republic

Answer 18

(EAST GERMANY)- emerged out of the soviet zone of occupation in Germany

Question 19

Berlin Wall

Answer 19

communists (soviets) reinforced fortification along the border between E. & W. Germany because of East Germans leaving

Question 20

Fidel Castro

Answer 20

headed a revolutionary movement in Cuba which overthrew Fulgencjo Batista y Zakdivar

Question 21

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 21

soviet premier who embarked on a policy of de-Stalinization (the end of the rule of terror & partial liberation of soviet society)

Question 22

Prague spring

Answer 22

liberal movement which Czechoslovakia communist leader supported and he promised citizens “socialism with human force”

Question 23

Breaches doctrine

Answer 23

reserved the right to invade socialist country that was deemed to be threatened by internal/external elements “hostile to socialism”

Question 24

detente

Answer 24

deduction in hostility, trying to cool the costly arms race and slow their (soviet and U.S.) competition in developing countries