history chapter 27 vocab & people

Question 1

what does Rationed mean?

Answer 1

a limited amount

Question 2

what is the Manhattan project

Answer 2

FDR organized a committee of scientists to build atomic bomb

Question 3

what is fascism?

Answer 3

a gov. Headed by a dictator calling for extreme nationalism and racism, popular

Question 4

what are Kamikazes?

Answer 4

suicide pilots to crash into U.S. ships

Question 5

what is island hopping?

Answer 5

attacking and capturing certain key islands to leapfrog others getting closer to the Philippines and Japan

Question 6

what is the Bataan Death March?

Answer 6

forcing 60,000-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war to march through the Philippines.

Question 7

what are Concentration camps?

Answer 7

camps where Jewish people were held by the Nazis

Question 8

what is Genocide?

Answer 8

deliberate destruction of an entire group of people

Question 9

what does it mean to Siege?

Answer 9

military blockade of Leningrad

Question 10

what is Operation Overlord?

Answer 10

invasion of occupied Europe

Question 11

what are Internment camps?

Answer 11

most located in desert, crowded, uncomfortable

Question 12

what is the Bracero program?

Answer 12

was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico

Question 13

what is Civil defense?

Answer 13

protective measures in case of attack

Question 14

what is Mobilization?

Answer 14

preparing for war

Question 15

what is Disarmament?

Answer 15

giving up military weapons & permanent system to keep the peace

Question 16

what is Blitzing?

Answer 16

lightning war

Question 17

what is Munich Conference?

Answer 17

Britain and France thought they could avoid war by accepting Germany’s demands

Question 18

what is anti-Semitism?

Answer 18

hatred of Jews

Question 19

who is Enola Gay?

Answer 19

1st atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

Question 20

what are dictators?

Answer 20

leaders who control nations by force

Question 21

what is the totalitarian rule?

Answer 21

gov. Suppresses all opposition and controls most aspects of people’s lives

Question 22

who is Benito Mussolini?

Answer 22

made fascism

Question 23

who is Adolf Hilter?

Answer 23

leader of the Nationalist Socialist Party (Nazi Party)
Believed German people were superior to others

Question 24

who is Joseph Stalin?

Answer 24

came to power as the Communist leader of the Soviet Union

Question 25

who is Winston Churchill?

Answer 25

prime Minister

Question 26

who is Harry S Truman?

Answer 26

was VP and became the 33rd president of the U.S.

Question 27

who are the Nisei Tuskegee Airmen?

Answer 27

African Americans group of fighter pilots shot down more than 200 enemy planes

Question 28

who are the Navajo code talkers?

Answer 28

they used special codes to transfer messages * Japan never broke the code*

Question 29

who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?

Answer 29

fought in Morocco and Algeria

Question 30

who is Erwin Rommel?

Answer 30

Axis forces led by Erwin Rommel “Desert Fox” in N.A. Nov. 1942 Britain defeated Rommel at the Battle of El Alamein

Question 31

who is Douglas MacArthur?

Answer 31

Filipino Troops commanded by Gen. blank were forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula

Question 32

who is George Patton?

Answer 32

U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II

Question 33

who is Hideki Tojo?

Answer 33

Japanese military leader

Question 34

who is FDR?

Answer 34

prez

Question 35

what happened in Normandy?

Answer 35

In France, allied powers attacked on D-Day

Question 36

who is the dictator for the Soviet Union?

Answer 36

Stalin

Question 37

who is the dictator of Italy?

Answer 37

Mussolini

Question 38

who is the dictator for Japan?

Answer 38

Tojo

Question 39

who is the dictator for Germany?

Answer 39

Hitler