history: chpt. 19 test Flashcards
Alliance between Germany and Japan
Anti Comintern Pact
Alliance between Mussolini and Hitler
Rome-Berlin Axis
No weapons or fortifications permitted
Demilitarized
Policy of satisfying reasonable demands and in exchange for peace
Appeasement
Agreement between Hitler and Stalin
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
In 1940, Japan was forced to decide which it needed more
Indochina’s raw materials or U.S. oil and scrap iron
In December 1936, Chiang Kai-shek ended his military efforts against the Communists and
Formed a front against Japan
Chamberlain’s Munich Conference with Hitler in 1938 resulted in Britain
Feeling that peace was secured
Hitler was confident that the western states who had signed the Treaty of Versailles would
Not use force to maintain it
Hitler planned to conquer the Soviet Union in order to
Secure land and Slavic slaves to strengthen the Reich
Hitler’s “lightning war,” using air supported panzer divisions
Blitzkrieg
Series of fortifications along France’s German borders
Maginot Line
Target of Japanese attack on December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Site of Allies’ D-Day invasion
Normandy
The German Air Force
Luftwaffe
Truman wanted to avoid an invasion of Japan because he believed that
Americans would suffer heavy losses
Which country was referred to as the “soft underbelly” of Europe by Winston Churchill
Italy
The turning point of the war in Asia that established U.S. naval superiority over Japan in the Pacific was the Battle of
Midway island
At the beginning of 1943, the Allies agreed to seek from the Axis Powers nothing short of
Unconditional surrender
Japanese leaders miscalculated American intent and thought that the United States would accept
Japanese domination of the Pacific
Hitler’s “Final Solution” for the Jews
Genocide
Crowded designated containment or holding areas within cities for Jews
Ghettos
Hitler’s largest extermination center in Poland
Auschwitz
The mass slaughter of European civilians, especially Jews
Holocaust
French Indochinese Communist leader
Ho Chi Minh
After 1941, Germany ruled some areas like Poland through direct annexation, but most of occupied Europe was run by German officials with
Local collaborators
Japan had conquered Southeast Asia during World War I using the slogan
“Asia for the Asiatics”
Some people didn’t believe or acknowledge the full horrors of Hitler’s slaughter of civilians for all of these reasons EXCEPT one
A. World War I propaganda had exaggerated German atrocities
B. Some people pretended not to notice
C. Allied forces chose to focus on ending the war
D. Collaborators refused to help Nazis hunt down Jews
D. Collaborators refused to help Nazis hunt down Jews
The victims of the Holocaust included large numbers of all of the following groups EXCEPT
A. Jews
B. Slavic people
C. Gypsies
D. Italians
D. Italians
Foreign diplomats tried to save Jews by
Issuing exit visas
Assembling and preparing for war
Mobilization
“Divine wind”
Kamikaze
British name for German air raids
Blitz
Post war ideological conflict between the U.S. and the USSR
Cold War
Site of Truman’s demands for free elections in Eastern Europe
Potsdam
Churchill called postwar Soviet policy in Eastern Europe the
“Iron Curtain”
Stalin wanted to create a buffer to protect the Soviet Union from the West by creating
Satellite, pro-Soviet state governments
At Yalta, the Big Three—the USSR, the U.S., and Great Britain— all insisted that
Germany surrender unconditionally
The Tehran Conference in 1943 set in motion a plan that would ultimately result in
Germany being divided along the north-south line into East and West
The Yalta Conference resulted in the Big Three powers agreeing to
Form the United Nations
