Chapter 24-World War II, Part A Flashcards
Dictator of Germany
Adolph Hitler
Hitler’s political party
National Socialists (Nazis)
Hitler’s book
Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
Lebensraum was the essence of Hitler’s desire for ______
Living Space for his Aryan Race in Eastern Europe
He was an Anti-Communist German Dictator
Adolph Hitler
These were Anti-Jewish Laws passed in Germany
Nuremberg Laws
This was called the Night of Broken Glass that began the official persecution of the Jews in Germany in 1938.
Kristallnacht
This German organization spread fear through Nazi occupied Europe.
Gestapo
The victims of the Holocaust included
Jews, homosexuals, disabled people, Gypsies, and Slavs
This was a Concentration camp
Buchenwald
This was an extermination (death) camp
Auschwitz
This ship brought Jewish refugees to the US but was not allowed to unload the passengers because of anti-Jewish feelings in the US
SS St. Louis
The Wannsee Conference was the official beginning for the _______ of the Jewish question by the Nazis.
Final Solution
_____ was a young Jewish girl that hid and wrote a diary of her experience during the Holocaust in The Netherlands
Anne Frank
Italian Fascist Dictator
Benito Mussolini
Spanish Fascist Dictator
Francisco Franco
Soviet Communist Dictator
Joseph Stalin
Stalin used _______ for his industrialization and collective farms programs in the Soviet Union.
Central Planning
This country’s military was in-fact its dictators and wanted expansion into China
Japan
Which two countries assisted Francisco Franco efforts to control Spain.
Germany and Italy
This was supposed to protect France from an invasion by Germany.
Maginot Line
Anschluss was Hitler’s take over of this country.
Austria
At Munich, British and French diplomats chose to _____ Hitler, selling out their own allies the Czechs.
appeasement
This Polish city was demanded by Hitler that led to the beginning of World War II.
Danzig
This secret pact allowed Hitler to attack Poland without fear of communist counter attack.
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
This country was split by Hitler and Stalin in 1939.
Poland
What type of warfare did Germany use to defeat their enemies?
Blitzkrieg
This was when Britain and France declared war but did not attack for 6 months.
Sitzkrieg or Phony War
What three Northern European countries did Hitler attack to get around the French Maginot Line.
Belgium, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands
This battle was a “Miracle of Deliverance” because the British and many French soldiers escape from the Nazis.
Dunkirk
What two military forces fight in the Battle of Britain?
Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe
What southern European nations did Hitler conquer?
Yugoslavia and Greece
On June 22, 1941, Hitler invades ______
Stalin’s Soviet Union
Name three central European nations that join Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union?
Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
What portion of Asia did the Japanese conquer in 1936?
Manchuria, China
What American territories were attacked by the Japanese in 1941?
Philippines, Aleutian Island (Alaska), and Hawaii
What African Territories were controlled by the Italians in the 1930s?
Ethiopia and Libya
This was a group of Americans who wanted to pursue a policy of Isolationism and to stay out of the war in Europe during the 1930s.
America First Committee
The _____ Act would only allow combatants to buy with cash and to only carry arms using their own boats.
Neutrality Act of 1939
The ______ for Bases Deal would help defend British shipping in the Atlantic Ocean.
Destroyers for Bases Deal
This weapon was Germany’s most important weapon in the Atlantic Ocean
U-Boats or submarines
This US destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats before US declares war.
Reuben James
The ____ purpose was to ally the US with the British and protect allied shipping and create a hemispheric defense zone.
Atlantic Charter
The ______ Act was to help the British (later other allied nations like the Soviets) with arms that they would only barrow.
Lend-Lease act
This strategic material was embargoed against Japan because of their invasions of China and Indochina in 1941.
Oil embargo
This was attacked the by Japanese on December 7, 1941.
Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii
