G.S 4-17 Flashcards
Which three countries made up the Axis powers during WWII?
Italy, Japan, Germany
Giving in to the demands of an aggressor to keep the peace
appeasement
In September 1938, British and French leaders gave into Hitler’s demands
and persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland at the
Munich Conference
Hitler’s invasion of what country prompted Britain and France to declare war on Germany in 1939?
Poland
The agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 in which the two
nations promised not to fight each other and to divide up land in
Eastern Europe
Nazi-Soviet pact
Hitler’s plan to invade Britain was called
Operation Sea Lion
The systematic genocide of about 6 million European Jews by the Nazis during WW2
Holocaust
Detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state
concentration camps
Hitler’s plan to invade the Soviet Union was called
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler’s strategy also called the “lightning war” improved tank and airpower technology to strike a devastating blow against the enemy.
blitzkrieg
Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1941 that allowed the president to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the United States
Lend Lease Act
Why did the German advances stall during Operation Barbarossa?
Because of harsh winter conditions
Hitler’s most brilliant commander was sent to North Africa to push the
British army back across the desert toward Cairo, Egypt
General Erwin Rommel
Which three leaders made up the big three during WW2?
Churchill, Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, is called
D-Day
Ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes
aircraft carriers
Which American general and future president took command of a joint British
and American forces in Morocco and Algeria, leading to the Allied control
of Africa?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt in February 1945 when the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WW2
Yalta Conference
The battle in which the Red Army drove Germany out of the Soviet Union and Hitler
suffered an irreplaceable loss of troops and equipment
Stalingrad
The United States got the Japanese to surrender and put an end to World War
2 in August 1945 when they dropped atomic bombs on which two cities?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During WW2, the American strategy of recapturing some Japanese islands while bypassing others was called what, and who came up with this idea?
it was called island hopping and Douglas MacArthur came up with it.
Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions were called
Kamikaze pilots
The code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WW2
Manhattan Project
During WW2, the forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war under
brutal conditions by the Japanese military
Bataan Death March
Following the Holocaust, nearly 200 Germans and Austrians were tried and found
guilty of war crimes and this took place where
Nuremberg
International organization established after WW2 to maintain peace
and cooperation in the international community
United Nations
A state of tension that existed between nations aligned with the United
States on one side and the Soviet Union on the other that lasted from
1947-1991
Cold War
United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism
Truman Doctrine
Massive aid package offered by the U.S. to Europe to help countries rebuild after WW2
Marshall Plan
NATO was a military alliance between several North Atlantic states to
safeguard them from the presumed threat of the Soviet Union’s communism
and agreed to help one another if attacked. What did NATO stand for
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The German Air Force, also known as
Luftwaffe
battle where German forces surprised the French and British by attacking through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium. In a panic, the British sent all of their forces and managed to save 300,00 troops, boosting their morale.
Miracle of Dunkirk
