Chapter 16 Flashcards
After all of Hitler’s other moves, the invasion of which country set off World War II?
Poland
In what year did World War II begin?
( September 3rd) 1939
What was the term for the new German battle tactic?
blitzkrieg
What happened for the seven months after the beginning of the war?
sitzkrieg, “sitting war”;
“phony war”
Britain saved over a third of a million soldiers with their evacuation from what French city?
Dunkirk
By the middle of the next year, what was France’s situation?
surrendered
What British invention helped stave off the German invasion of Britain?
Radar and enigma
What was the goal of the Italian invasion of North Africa?
Italian Empire/Suez Canal
The German plan called Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of what country?
Russia
History repeated itself when what effectively stopped German control of Moscow?
the harsh soviet winter
What did President Roosevelt call “a date which will live in infamy”?
December 7, 1941 ; Bombing of Pearl Harbor
What event occurred on that date? (date which will live in infamy)
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Where did the Japanese concentrate their next several attacks?
Asia
What naval battle turned the tide of the Pacific War against the Japanese?
battle of midway
Which American general went “island hopping” toward Japan?
Douglas MacArthur
What was the “scientific” name for Hitler’s master race?
Aryans
What was Hitler’s initial solution for the “Jewish Problem”?
the holocaust
What was the term for the segregated areas into which Jews were herded?
ghettos
What was Hitler’s name for the plan that encouraged the genocide of Jews?
final solution
Which was the largest of the death camps?
Auschwitz
What did Raoul Wallenberg and Dietrich Bonhoeffer have in common?
christians that helped refugee Jews escape from Germany
The Allies forced Germany to fight on two fronts by extending the battle where?
South Africa and Southern Europe; aka The Mediterranean,
Which battle in Russia turned the tide of the war on the Eastern Front?
Stalingrad
Before the Allies finally invaded France they first invaded what Axis country?
Roosevelt and Churchill decided to invade Italy first
Which of the following is not one of the sacrifices Americans made to support the war overseas?
Was:
18 million people, mostly women, began
working in the war industries,
Americans rationed goods like meat,sugar,
gas,and tires
Factories converted from making peacetime
to wartime goods like car factories made
tanks and typewrite companies made
bullets
June 6, 1944 is known by what nickname?
D-day
What occurred on June 6, 1944?
The biggest invasion in recorded history, The Invasion of Normandy France occupied by Germany
Germany’s last-ditch effort to stop the Allies was called what?
Battle of the Bulge
General MacArthur kept his promise by returning where?
Philippines
What was a kamikaze?
Japanese suicide bomber
The Manhattan Project was the American effort to do what?
Build an Atomic Bomb
On which two Japanese cities were atomic bombs dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Blitz left what European city in ruins?
London
The trial of European war criminals took place in what city?
Nuremberg, Germany
What was the American plan for rebuilding Japan?
US Occupation
What form of government did the Americans impose on Japan?
Parliamentary Democracy
