Ch22 Flashcards
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
“Lighting war”
Blitzkrieg
The famous German “Desert Fox”
Erwin Rommel
June 9, 1944
D-Day
Dictator of Fascist Italy
Benito Mussolini
Commander of all American Forces in the Far East
Douglas MacArthur
Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
Attempt to satisfy a dictator by giving in to his demands.
Appeasement
An agreement between Russia and Germany allowing Russia to take some of the Baltic property in exchange for Germany being allowed to take part of Poland.
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact
Military head of Japan
Hideki Tojo
The battle that was the bloodiest single campaign in the Pacific
Okinawa
Nationalistic, totalitarian mass movement.
Fascism
Policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other countries.
Isolationism
British prime minister.
Winston Churchill
Hitler’s book that proposed to eliminate all Jews, end democracy in Germany, and create a new German order
Mein Kampf
Placement of people in detention camps.
Interment
British champion of appeasement.
Neville Chamberlin
German army
Wehrmacht
Republican candidate for president in 1940
Wendell Willkie
Act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished.
Lend lease Act
Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their “common principles” and goals in the war effort?
Atlantic Charter
Winter battle did the Nazis counterattack against the Allied invasion of Europe, almost stopping the advance into Germany.
Battle of the bulge
Allied strategy for the defeat of Japan.
Island hopping
Japanese suicide pilot.
Kamikazes
Warfare that was mainly air combat over England.
Battle of Britain
British commander helped to defeat the Germans in North African.
Bernard Montgomery
Section of northern France did the Allied Expeditionary Force land in 1944
Normandy
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
U.S. President during most of World War II
Franklin Roosevelt
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
Dwight D. Eiesenhower
Country German soldiers invaded, beginning WWII.
Poland
Cities in Japan bombed by United States.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy.
Atomic bomb
Government limitations on the purchase of scarce goods.
Rationing
Jews and others that the Nazi’s considered “lesser” people
Holocuast
The union of Austria and Germany.
Auschluss
How did Roosevelt feel about the taxes and raising them for war effort?
He was for it
Hitler’s book Mein Kampf proposed?
Eliminate all Jews, end democracy in Germany, and want a new German order.
German occupation of Rhineland, invasion of Poland ……which on came 1st
Occupation of Rhine : land, before Poland unification with Austria sutenland.
Who was the leading spokesman for the isolationist America First Commitees?
Charles Lindbergh
German invasion of what country sparked WWII?
Poland
Main provision of the Neutrality Act of 1939?
To purchase weaponry from the US on a cash basis and carry it on their ships?
Roosevelt 4 freedoms?
Freedom of Speech, Worship, Want, and Fear
Event that brought US into WWII
Pearl Harbor
Who was the American admiral commanding the US forces at the Battle of Midway?
Chester Nimitz
Who did the war not see an increase in ?
Consumer goods national debt,taxes.
Rosy the Riveter symbolizes………..
Women working
American forces first fought the Germans in……
North Africa
What type of warfare was the Battle of Britain ?
Air
Why did American stay out of WWII for so long?
- Traditional Isolationist Policy
- Great depression:keep the focus on domestic rather than international concerns.
- Nonpayment of war Debts.
Explain ways in which the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a failure?
They were Aircraft carrier. So Japan missed most of them. It inspired American to fight in war,and awakened sleeping giant the US.
