Chapter 32 Flashcards
Hitler’s master race were the ____.
Aryans
The systematic mass slaughter of Jews.
Holocaust
Kristallnacht was the night of broken ______ when massed violence occurred against the German Jews.
Glass
This was the color of the Star of David patch Jews were required to wear in Germany.
Yellow
The Final Solution was the _____ of all the Jews under control of the Nazis.
Genocide
Auschwitz was a German _____ camp.
extermination
Elie Wiesel and Simon Weisenthal attempted to find the Jewish ______ of the extermination camps.
Survivors
This country had a non-aggression pact with Hitler until June 22, 1941
Soviet Union
This was Hitler’s lightning warfare tactic.
Blitzkrieg
The Winter War was launched by the Soviets against this country.
Finland
This was the huge fortresses that protected France against the Nazi armies but did not work.
Maginot
This was where the British army was rescued in June 1940.
Dunkirk
Leader of the Free French in 1941.
De Gaulle
Wartime leader of Great Britain.
Churchhill
This was the British Airforce.
RAF
Technology used to identify German plane locations during the Blitz.
Radar
The armies of _____ attempted to conquer Egypt but was pushed out.
Italy
He was the Desert Fox of the Germans.
Rommel
This North African port was vital to supply both armies fighting in the desert.
Tobruk
This Soviet city refused to surrender even surrounded for nearly three years.
Leningrad
He was the defender of this city in 1941-1943.
Moscow
This American law allowed US supplies to be given to the Allied countries fighting the Nazis before 1942.
Lend lease
The _____ allowed for a Hemispheric Defense Zone in the oceans where the US would protect the western approaches and the British the eastern approaches.
Atlantic charter
Japan wanted to invade this country to control its vast population and resources.
China
This was an infamous Japanese attack on the US Navy.
Pearl harbor
The _____ Death March occurred in the Philippines after the allied forced surrendered to the Japanese.
Bataan
The ______ declared that East Asia was for the Asiatics but instead they wanted to control the entire region as their empire.
Japanese
This was the turning point naval battle in the Pacific in June 1942.
Midway
This was the island battle that was the turning point land battle in the southwest pacific.
Guadalcanal
He was the supreme allied commander in the Pacific.
Macarthur
Hitler referred to his empire as the _______.
Third Reich
This was the turning point battle in Egypt in August 1942.
El Alamein
This Soviet city entrapped a Nazi army and resulted in the turning point battle on the Eastern Front.
Stalingrad
Organized _____ Drives allowed for recycling metal for wartime needs in nearly every country.
Scrap
Nisei were native born American citizens of _____ descent.
Japanese
D-Day occurred in this region of France.
Normandy
The Battle of the Bulge was found by the Nazis against the American army through this forest in Belgium.
Ardennes
_____ became president after Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945.
Truman
General MacArthur returned to the Philippines by landing on the island of ____ in October 1944.
Leyte
There were suicide pilots of the Japanese.
Kamikazes
This invasion near Japan was the last major US invasion in the Pacific island hopping campaign.
Okinawa
This was the last use of an Atomic bomb on a military target during World War II.
Nagasaki
The _____ government of France had collaborated with the Nazis during the war and was replaced following.
Vichy
The _____ party offered hope to many people in destroyed Europe but the United States resisted allowing the party control in Western Europe following the war.
Communist
The Nuremberg Trials were to punish Nazi ______ after the war.
War Criminals
This was one concentration camp in Germany.
Dachau
General MacArthur would lead a plan of democratization for this country following the war.
Japan
This was the Japanese parliament following the war.
Diet
Article 9 of the Japanese postwar constitution stated that Japan could no longer make ____ but could only fight if attacked.
War
One of two superpowers to emerge after WW II.
Soviet Union
One of two superpowers to emerge after WW II.
United States
