Chap 12 Holocaust

Question 1

Kellogg-Briand

Answer 1

The Kellogg–Briand Pact is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.

Question 2

Ethiopia

Answer 2

Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is a rugged, landlocked country split by the Great Rift Valley. With archaeological finds dating back more than 3 million years, it’s a place of ancient culture. Among its important sites are Lalibela with its rock-cut Christian churches from the 12th–13th centuries. Aksum is the ruins of an ancient city with obelisks, tombs, castles and Our Lady Mary of Zion church.

Question 3

Appeasement

Answer 3

the action or process of appeasing.

Question 4

Axis Powers

Answer 4

The Axis powers, also known as the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied Powers. The Axis agreed on their opposition to the Allies, but did not completely coordinate their activity.

Question 5

Allied Powers

Answer 5

The Allies of World War I were the countries that opposed the Central Powers in the First World War. The members of the original Triple Entente of 1907 were the French Republic, the British Empire and the Russian Empire.

Question 6

Munich Conference

Answer 6

The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it.

Question 7

Anti-Comintern

Answer 7

Anti-Comintern Pact, agreement concluded first between Germany and Japan (Nov. 25, 1936) and then between Italy, Germany, and Japan (Nov. 6, 1937), ostensibly directed against the Communist International (Comintern) but, by implication, specifically against the Soviet Union.

Question 8

German Soviet Non aggression pact 2

Answer 8

The German-Soviet Pact, also known as the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact after the two foreign ministers who negotiated the agreement, had two parts. … Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union also signed a ten-year nonaggression pact on August 23, 1939, in which each signatory promised not to attack the other.

Question 9

Sanction

Answer 9

a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

Question 10

Demilitarized

Answer 10

remove all military forces from (an area).

Question 11

Winston Churchill

Answer 11

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD PC PCc DL FRS RA was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

Question 12

Pearl Harbor

Answer 12

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Question 13

Sudetenland

Answer 13

The Sudetenland is the German name to refer to those northern, southern, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by ethnic German speakers, specifically the border districts.

Question 14

Siege of Leningrad

Answer 14

The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army Group North against Leningrad, historically

Question 15

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 15

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.

Question 16

Phony War

Answer 16

The Phoney War was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front.

Question 17

Isolantionist

Answer 17

a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Question 18

Battle of Britain

Answer 18

The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940.

Question 19

Lend-lease act

Answer 19

President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on 11 March 1941. It permitted him to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government [whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States] any defense article.”

Question 20

Auschwitz

Answer 20

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Question 21

FDR

Answer 21

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945

Question 22

Douglas McArthur

Answer 22

Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

Question 23

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Answer 23

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany’s final effort to.

Question 24

Midway highland

Answer 24

Midway highland

Question 25

Genocide

Answer 25

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Question 26

Poland

Answer 26

Poland is an eastern European country on the Baltic Sea known for its medieval architecture and Jewish heritage. Warsaw, the capital, has shopping and nightlife, plus the Warsaw Uprising Museum, honoring the city’s WWII-era resistance to German occupation. In the city of Kraków, 14th-century Wawel Castle rises above the medieval old town, home to Cloth Hall, a Renaissance trading post in Rynek Glówny (market square).

Question 27

Untitled Nations

Answer 27

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 … Wikipedia

Question 28

Kamikaze

Answer 28

(in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

Question 29

Mobilization

Answer 29

the action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active service.

Question 30

Island hopping

Answer 30

travel from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands.

Question 31

Atomic bomb

Answer 31

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter.