Ch25 - Places Flashcards
What is the region that the Japanese invaded and seized from China in 1931?
Manchuria
What is the mountainous region along the Chzech-German border that belonged to Czechoslovakia? it was surrendered to Hitler by the Munich Pact.
Sudetenland
Where was roughly 10,000 captured Polish officers slaughtered by the Russians?
Katyn Forest
In what French city did hundreds of British vessels rescue more than 300,000 British and French soldiers from the Germans?
Dunkirk
What small zone in southern France that was under Marshal Petain came under direct German control?
Vichy
In which city did the Russians stop the Nazi offensive in October 1942?
Stalingrad
What three island outposts between Hawaii and the Philippines were seized by the Japanese?
Midway, Wake, and Guam
Where did General MacArthur withdraw his forces in order to preserve the civilian population of Manila?
Bataan Peninsula
What fortified island guarded the entrance to Manila Bay and withstood Japanese assault for about a month?
Corregidor
What was the last land route into China that the Japanese and Thai troops seized in January 1942?
Burma Road
What was the site of the battle fought on August 7, 1942, and marked the beginning of the Allied counteroffensive in the South Pacific?
Guadalcanal
What was the keystone of the Japanese defenses in the Mariana Islands?
Saipan
On what tiny, barren, volcanic island did U.S. Marines land in February 1945 and f some fight of the most desperate fighting in human history?
Iwo Jima
On what main island of the Ryukyus were the Japanese offered desperate resistance?
Okinowa
What are 4 of the largest Nazi concentration camps?
Treblinka
Dachau
Buchenwald
Auschwitz
