Chapter 22 Flashcards

1
Q

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

A

Joseph Stalin

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2
Q

“Lightning war”

A

Blitzkrieg

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3
Q

The famous German “desert fox”

A

Erwin Rommel

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4
Q

June 6, 1944

A

D-day

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5
Q

Dictator of Fascist Italy

A

Benito Mussolini

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6
Q

Commander of all American Forces in the Far East

A

Douglas MacArthur

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7
Q

Dictator of Nazi Germany

A

Adolph Hitler

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8
Q

Attempt to satisfy a dictator by giving in to his demands

A

Appeasement

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9
Q

An agreement between Russia and Germany allowing Russia to take some of the Baltic property in exchange for Germany being allows to take part of Poland

A

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

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10
Q

Military head of Japan

A

Hideki Togo

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11
Q

The battle that was the bloodiest single campaign in the Pacific

A

Okinawa

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12
Q

Nationalistic, totalitarian mass movement

A

Fascism

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13
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Policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other countries

A

Isolation

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14
Q

British prime minister

A

Winston Churchill

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15
Q

Hitler’s book that proposed to eliminate all Jews, end democracy in Germany, and create a new German order.

A

Mein Kampf

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16
Q

Placement of people in detention camps

A

Internment

17
Q

British champion of appeasement

A

Neville Chamberlin

18
Q

Germany army

A

Wehrmacht

19
Q

Republican candidate for president in 1940

A

Wendell Wilkie

20
Q

Act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished

A

Lend-lease act

21
Q

Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their “common principles “ and goals on the war effort?

A

Atlantic Charter

22
Q

Winter battle did the Nazis counterattack against the Allied invasion of Europe, almost stopping the advance into Germany

A

Battle of the Bulge

23
Q

Allied strategy for the defeat of Japan

A

Island Hopping

24
Q

Japanese suicide pilot

A

Kamikazes

25
Q

Warfare that was mainly air combat over England

A

Battle of Britain

26
Q

British commander helped to defeat the Germans in North Africa

A

Bernard Montgomery

27
Q

Section of northern France did the Allied Expeditionary Force land in 1944

A

Normandy

28
Q

December 7, 1941

A

Pearl Harbor

29
Q

US president during the most of World War II

A

Franklin Roosevelt

30
Q

Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

A

Dwight D. Eisenhower

31
Q

Country German soldiers invaded, beginning WWII

A

Poland

32
Q

Cities in Japan bombed by United States

A

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

33
Q

Bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy

A

Atomic bomb

34
Q

Government limitations on the purchase of scarce goods.

A

Rationing

35
Q

Massacre of millions of Jews and other people that the Nazis considered lesser people

A

Holocaust

36
Q

The Union of Austria and Germany

A

Anschluss