Chapter 16

Question 1

An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another

Answer 1

Nonaggression pact

Question 2

“Lightening war”

Answer 2

Blitzkrieg

Question 3

French General who fled to London and set up a government in exile committed to reconquering France

Answer 3

Charles de Gaulle

Question 4

New British prime minister, declared his nation would never give in

Answer 4

Winston Churchill

Question 5

A series of battles between German and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941

Answer 5

Battle of Britain

Question 6

Declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of the World War II

Answer 6

Atlantic Charter

Question 7

Japan’s greatest naval strategist

Answer 7

Isoroku Yamamoto

Question 8

Hawaii place that was attacked by the Japanese

Answer 8

Pearl Harbor

Question 9

1942 sea and air battle of World War II in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific

Answer 9

Battle of Midway

Question 10

General who commanded the Allie forces in the Pacific. Believed in “island-hopping”

Answer 10

Douglas MacArthur

Question 11

1942-1943 battle of WWII, which allied troops drove Japanese forces from the Pacific island of Guadalcanal

Answer 11

Battle of Guadalcanal

Question 12

Germanic people known as…

Answer 12

Aryans

Question 13

Mass slaughter of civilians especially Jews

Answer 13

Holocaust

Question 14

November 9, Night or Broken Glass, nazi storm into Jewish homes

Answer 14

Kristallnacht

Question 15

Segregated Jewish areas

Answer 15

Ghettos

Question 16

Hitlers program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

Answer 16

Final Solution

Question 17

systemic killing of an entire people

Answer 17

Genocide

Question 18

General who took the key port city of Tobruk in June 1942

Answer 18

Erwin Rommel

Question 19

London general who was sent to take control of British forces in North Africa

Answer 19

Bernard Montgomery

Question 20

American general who led “operation torch”

Answer 20

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 21

1942-1943 battle of WWII in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union

Answer 21

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 22

June 6, 1944: day chosen for the invasion of operation overlord was known as…

Answer 22

D-Day

Question 23

1944-1945 battle in which allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of WWII

Answer 23

Battle of the Bulge

Question 24

Japanese suicide pilots

Answer 24

Kamikaze

Question 25

Series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany after WWII in which nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity

Answer 25

Nuremberg Trials

Question 26

Disbanding the Japanese armed forces

Answer 26

Demilitarization

Question 27

What event finally unleashed WWII?

Answer 27

The Polish invasion had unleashed WWII.

Question 28

Why was capturing Egypt’s Suez Canal so important to the Axis Powers?

Answer 28

Egypt’s Suez Canal was key to reaching the oil fields of the Middle East.

Question 29

What was Yamamoto’s objective at Pearl Harbor?

Answer 29

To destroy the U.S pacific fleet.

Question 30

How did Japan try to win support from other Asian countries?

Answer 30

With the anti-colonialist idea of “Asia for the Asians”

Question 31

Name two tactics that Hitler used to rid Germany of Jews before creating his “Final Solution”.

Answer 31

1. Passed Nuremberg Laws depriving Jews of their rights to get,an citizenship, jobs, and property. Had to wear bright yellow star.
2. Ordered Jews to be moved into certain areas in Poland called ghettos where they lived in horrible conditions and were beat.

Question 32

What tactics did Hitler use during the “Final Solution”.

Answer 32

Used a program called genocide which is the systematic killing of an entire people, sent SS to find jews put them in pits and shot them. Prisoners in camps worked as slaved with little to no food. Most lost 50 pounds in the first month.

Question 33

Why were items rationed during the war?

Answer 33

With factories turning out products for the war, a shortage of consumer goods hit. The government rationed scarce items

Question 34

What was Operation Overlord?

Answer 34

The invasion of Normandy: greatest land and sea attack in history

Question 35

Why did Europeans leave their homes following the war?

Answer 35

The cities were destroyed. They had no electricity, water, and very little food so people fled to find their families or a safe place.

Question 36

What were two of the most important steps that MacArthur took in Japan following the war?

Answer 36

Demilitarization: disbanding the Japanese armed forces camp; democratization: the process of creating a government elected by the people