Chapter 16

Question 1

After all of Hitler’s other moves, the invasion of which country set off World War II?

Answer 1

Poland

Question 2

In what year did World War II begin?

Answer 2

( September 3rd) 1939

Question 3

What was the term for the new German battle tactic?

Answer 3

blitzkrieg

Question 4

What happened for the seven months after the beginning of the war?

Answer 4

sitzkrieg, “sitting war”;

“phony war”

Question 5

Britain saved over a third of a million soldiers with their evacuation from what French city?

Answer 5

Dunkirk

Question 6

By the middle of the next year, what was France’s situation?

Answer 6

surrendered

Question 7

What British invention helped stave off the German invasion of Britain?

Answer 7

Radar and enigma

Question 8

What was the goal of the Italian invasion of North Africa?

Answer 8

Italian Empire/Suez Canal

Question 9

The German plan called Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of what country?

Answer 9

Russia

Question 10

History repeated itself when what effectively stopped German control of Moscow?

Answer 10

the harsh soviet winter

Question 11

What did President Roosevelt call “a date which will live in infamy”?

Answer 11

December 7, 1941 ; Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Question 12

What event occurred on that date? (date which will live in infamy)

Answer 12

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Question 13

Where did the Japanese concentrate their next several attacks?

Answer 13

Asia

Question 14

What naval battle turned the tide of the Pacific War against the Japanese?

Answer 14

battle of midway

Question 15

Which American general went “island hopping” toward Japan?

Answer 15

Douglas MacArthur

Question 16

What was the “scientific” name for Hitler’s master race?

Answer 16

Aryans

Question 17

What was Hitler’s initial solution for the “Jewish Problem”?

Answer 17

the holocaust

Question 18

What was the term for the segregated areas into which Jews were herded?

Answer 18

ghettos

Question 19

What was Hitler’s name for the plan that encouraged the genocide of Jews?

Answer 19

final solution

Question 20

Which was the largest of the death camps?

Answer 20

Auschwitz

Question 21

What did Raoul Wallenberg and Dietrich Bonhoeffer have in common?

Answer 21

christians that helped refugee Jews escape from Germany

Question 22

The Allies forced Germany to fight on two fronts by extending the battle where?

Answer 22

South Africa and Southern Europe; aka The Mediterranean,

Question 23

Which battle in Russia turned the tide of the war on the Eastern Front?

Answer 23

Stalingrad

Question 24

Before the Allies finally invaded France they first invaded what Axis country?

Answer 24

Roosevelt and Churchill decided to invade Italy first

Question 25

Which of the following is not one of the sacrifices Americans made to support the war overseas?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

June 6, 1944 is known by what nickname?

Answer 26

D-day

Question 27

What occurred on June 6, 1944?

Answer 27

The biggest invasion in recorded history, The Invasion of Normandy France occupied by Germany

Question 28

Germany’s last-ditch effort to stop the Allies was called what?

Answer 28

Battle of the Bulge

Question 29

General MacArthur kept his promise by returning where?

Answer 29

Philippines

Question 30

What was a kamikaze?

Answer 30

Japanese suicide bomber

Question 31

The Manhattan Project was the American effort to do what?

Answer 31

Build an Atomic Bomb

Question 32

On which two Japanese cities were atomic bombs dropped?

Answer 32

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 33

The Blitz left what European city in ruins?

Answer 33

London

Question 34

The trial of European war criminals took place in what city?

Answer 34

Nuremberg, Germany

Question 35

What was the American plan for rebuilding Japan?

Answer 35

US Occupation

Question 36

What form of government did the Americans impose on Japan?

Answer 36

Parliamentary Democracy