dd 4 Flashcards
Marianas Turkey Shoot
Battle of the Philippines Sea
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Japanese-Chinese clashes on July 7, 1937 sparked a Japanese invasion
of China
March on Rome
October 1922 coup by Mussolini and the fascist militias of his party
Kristallnacht
Night of riots against Jews and Jewish establishments sparked by an
assassination of a Nazi official; November 9-10, 1938
Korematsu v. United States
1944 Supreme Court case found in favor of the United States on
grounds that national security justified internment
Korean War
Civil war on the Korean peninsula started in 1950
Katyn Forest Massacre
Soviet massacre of 22,000 Polish military officers and intellectuals in
April and May 1940; discovered by German troops in 1943 and used
as anti-Soviet propaganda
Japanese Imperial
Conference
Japanese government meeting on November 5, 1941 at which
conditions for going to war with the United States were agreed
Ichi-Go
Japanese offensive in southern China, attacking Henan, Hunan, and
Guangxi and advancing to the Indochinese border from April to
December 1944
First Battle of El Alamein
First Afrika Korps attack on British Egypt in July 1942; prompted
changes in British command with the appointment of Bernard Law
Montgomery
Evian Conference
1938 meeting of 32 nations in which all representatives declared that
they could not welcome more Jewish refugees
Dreyfus Affair
French political scandal in which Jewish army captain was falsely
accused of spying on Germany; led to anti-Semitic backlash
Case Yellow
German invasion of France commencing May 10, 1940
Casablanca Conference
American-British military conference held from January 14 to 24, 1943
to which Stalin declined his invitation; agreed on the planning of
Operation Husky and an invasion date for retaking France
Beer Hall Putsch
Attempted coup by the Nazi Party in Bavaria, November 1923,
modelled after Mussolini’s March on Rome
Battle of the Philippines
Sea
Aerial and naval battle of Saipan in June 1944 between Japan’s First
Mobile Fleet and American navy; also known as Marianas Turkey
Shoot
Battle of Kasserine Pass
February 1943 battle between Allied troops and Afrika Korps; marked
first land engagement involving American soldiers
Battle of the Java Sea
Japanese-ABDACOM naval battle on February 27, 1942; largest
surface battle since World War I; ended in Allied defeat
Battle of the Coral Sea
May 1942 naval engagement off Port Moresby between Japan and
American-Australian fleets, largely carried out via aerial battle rather
than surface engagements
Battle of the Bulge
Final major German offensive in the west, launched on December 16,
1944 along the Ardennes; failed at Bastogne by end January 1945
Battle of the Atlantic
On-going naval conflict during World War II in which German U-boats
attempted to break Atlantic supply lines around Great Britain and
from the United States
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Naval battle from October 23 to 26, 1944 off Leyte; resulted in
Japanese losses of four carriers, three battleships, 10 cruisers, nine
destroyers, and 10,000 men
Bataan Death March
Forced march of prisoners after American surrender in the Philippines
Atlantic Conference
August 1941 meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill that resulted
in the Atlantic Charter declaration
