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Chapter 16 Flashcards

1
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  • Between Hitler and Stalin

- No fighting or worries

A

Non aggression pact

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2
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When did World War I start?

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9 days after the non aggression pact was signed, because Hitler invaded Poland

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Why did France and Britain declare war on Germany?

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Because they helped out Poland, who was invaded by Germany

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4
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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning War

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5
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Why do we not like stalin?

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The USSR took half of Poland and Baltics and he knew the invasion was goin to happen

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6
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Siegfried

A

Germans

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7
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Maginot

A

France and Britain

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8
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Maginot and Siegfied lines in west

A

Sitting War

Phony War

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Denmark and Norway

A

Quick victories for hitler

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10
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What did Hitler take when he surrounded and Isolated France?

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Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg

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11
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  • Hitler attacked France

- Cornered the French army and pushed them backwards across France

A

Ardennes Forest

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12
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English ships rescue the French Army

A

Rescue at Dunkirk

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13
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Who maid the Vichy government?

A

Petain (Head of public government in south france)

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14
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Leads the Free French Army

A

de Gaulle

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15
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New Prime Minister

Spoke his mind and got his way

A

Churchill

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16
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Battle of Britain

A

Germany vs. Britain

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17
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Wanted to knock out Royal Air force in Battle of Britain

A

Luftwaffe

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18
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How did Britain win the battle of Britain?

A

Used radar and enigma

British pretended they didn’t care about Hitler bombing them, and went underground

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19
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Why did Italy attack Egypt?

A

They said they’d better do something or Hitler would attack us.
They have the canal which controls trade from Europe to Asia

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20
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Why did Hitler help Italy?

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Because Egypt was controlled by Britain and Hitler wanted to take down Britain

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21
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How did Hitler help Italy?

A

Send Rommel to help Italy

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22
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Who is Rommel?

A

That is one of HItler’s best generals

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23
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Who voluntarily joined the Third Reich?

A

Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary

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24
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Who resisted Hitler but fell in days

A

Yugoslavia and Greece

Hitler took all the balkans

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25
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Hitler’s plan to attack Stalin from the South

Soviets used scorched earth policy

A

Operation Barbarossa

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26
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Battle of Leningrad

A

Stalin vs. Hitler
Hitler surrounded them, bombed their food
Hitler moved his troops to Moscow, and had the worst winter ever

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27
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US Neutrality Acts

A

FDR convinces Congress to pass Lend Lease Act

28
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Lend Lease Act

A

Said we can lend or lease weapons to countries, but they had to pay for them and transport them

29
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Why did we start undeclared naval war with Germany?

A

They shot down an American plane because we were helping the British

30
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Atlantic Charter

A
  1. Countries and Nations have the right to free trade
  2. People should be able to choose the government
  3. All of these were pointing at Germany
31
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Why did the US stop trading with Japan?

A

Oil and Scrap Metal

They weren’t doing good things with it

32
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Pearl Harbor

A

Japan attacked Hawaii, unannounced

We declared war with Japan and their allies

33
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Who are on Japan’s side?

A

Japan Italy and Germany

34
Q

Doolittle’s Raid

A

Troop bombed Tokyo for 3 hours

Proved to Japan that they weren’t invincible

35
Q

Battle of Coral Sea

A

Fought completely in air

Goal was to stop Japan’s southern progression

36
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Battle of Midway

who led it?

A

Nimitz led it
turning point in war
Japanese sent everything they had, and came in waves. We still beat them

37
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Who started island hoping?

A

MacArthur

38
Q

Battle of Guadalcanal?

A

Japanese were building a base that would let them invade Australia, so we stopped them

39
Q

British’s #1 general
Launched a massive attack on Rommel
NO sneakiness

A

Montgomery

40
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Rommel Sandwich

A

Operation Torch
Eisenhower coming from Casa Blanca
Montgomery coming from Egypt

41
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Germans vs. Russians
Gateway city to east
Hitler surrounds and bombs them
marching toward moscow to make Russia give up
Germans destroyed
A

Battle of Stalingrad

42
Q

When Italy doesn’t want to fight anymore, what happens?

A

King of Italy takes over Rome and arrests mussolini, then Italy surrenders

43
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What happens when Germany took over North Italy?

A

Brought back Mussolini to take over

44
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Why does Mussolini die?

A

Italy was going downhill so he tried to high tail it outta there with his fellow Germans, and the Italians found him and killed him

45
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Home front

A

Total war
women
rationing
prejudice

46
Q

Internment Camp

A

time out for Japanese Americans

47
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How did Calais start?

A

We just got Italy, and we needed to get into Europe and get france because Hitler was in control of it

48
Q

What was special about this?

A

Fake army, fake target, it was actually us invading Normandy

49
Q

Invasion of Normandy

A

D Day

50
Q

Patton

A

Found weak spot in German Defenses

Leader of fake army

51
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Hitler’s last defensive move

A

Battle of the Bulge

Hitler got Bastogne but Patton came and took it back

52
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What happened to Berlin?

A

Soviets surrounded them and bombed them, then Hitler committed suicide

53
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Japanese’s last try to win

Largest naval battle

A

Battle of Leyte Gulf

54
Q

Pilots drugged up to fly their planes into ships

A

Kamikazes

55
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Japanese fought hard against us while we were island hopping

A

Iwo jima

56
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Trying to get as close to Japan as possible

Had to decide whether to invade Japan or not

A

Okinawa

57
Q

What happened in New Mexico?

A

Warned Japanese with the adam bomb and tested it

58
Q

Where were the bombs dropped?

A

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

59
Q

How many died and how many were homeless

A

60 million dead

50 million homeless

60
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How many people in Europe died?

A

2/3 (40 mill)

61
Q

Problems in Europe

A

Death
People Lost
Systems messed up (transportation etc)
Communist party grew in France

62
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Nuremberg Trials

A

captured 22 Nazi’s and killed and burned them

63
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Japans probs

A 
Demilitarization
Democratization
Emperor admittin he was not divine
Diet
Article 9
64
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Demilitarization

A

only a small military

65
Q

democratization

A

new constitution and a constitutional monarchy

66
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Diet

A

bicameral legislature

67
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Article 9

A

Japan cannot declare war

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