WWII Flashcards
Kristallnacht was a night of spontaneous rioting by the German people, enraged over the killing of a German diplomat by a Jewish refugee
False
Fascists were strongly anti-Communist
True
American commanders at the Pearl Harbor Naval base received a war warning, but Hawaii was not mentioned as a possible target
True
In the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese sank or badly damage most of the US Navy’s aircraft carriers
False
Adolf Hitler blamed Germany’s defeat in World War I on the
Jews
The British and French realized that appeasement had failed when Hitler
Invaded Poland
The first are that Hitler “unified” with Germany was
The Sudetenland
The Nazi-Soviet nonaggression testy contained a secret deal
Divide Poland a between them
Roosevelt sent destroyers to Britain in exchange for
U.S. bases on British-held territory
The Nye Committee report created the impression that America’s entry into a World War I was influence by
American arms manufacturers
Japan’s goal in attacking Midway Island was to
Gain a base from which to attack Hawaii
The Bataan Death March occurred in
The Philippines
A key to the American success at Midway was
Breaking the Japanese Navy’s secret code
In his book, Adolfo Hitler claimed the blond, blue-eyed Germans were descendants of a “master race” called
Aryan
As Hitler began to claim lands for Germany, other nations followed a policy of ( ), or giving in to his demands in exchange for peace
Appeasement
German plans to invade the Soviet Union was called Operation
Barbarossa
The ( ) Act allowed the United Starr to send weapons to Britain if Britain promised to return them or pay rent for them when the war ended
Lend-Lease
Talks between Roosevelt and Churchill on ships near Newfoundland in 1942 resulted in the ( ), which commuted the two leaders to a post war of democracy, non-aggression, and free trade
Atlantic Charter
The American North Africa Campaign was called Operation
Dynamo
On ( ) 11, 1939 Scientist Albert Einstein wrote President Roosevelt a letter detailing the possibility of an atomic bomb
October
Leader of Fascist Spain
Gen. Francisco Franco
Il Duce
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin wanted the Americans to send troops to the Eastern front to help defend the Soviet Union
False
The Nuremberg Laws
Took citizenship away from Jewish Germans
The Nazis’ “final solution” referred to their plans to
Exterminate Europe’s Jews
A night of anti-Jewish violence became known as
Kristallnacht
As a result of a presidential order allowing the military declare any part of the United States to be a military zone
Many Japanese Americans were moved to internment camps
Blue points and red points were a system for
Rationing goods
Iwo Jima was an important objective for the American military because
U.S. planes could bomb Japan from there
The “Double V” campaign meant
Victory over Hitler’s racism abroad and victory over racism at home
The Battle if ( ) was the turning point in the war of the Pacific
Midway Island
If all the Battle fought by the United Staes troops in WWII more soldiers received the Congressional Medal of Honor got their actions in this campaign
Iwo Jima
All were beachheads assaulted during the D-Day invasion EXCEPT
Silver
By putting the Germans in the defensive? The Soviet forces created a turning point in the was in Europe at the Battle of
StalinGrad
Adolfo Hitler was sure the Allied invasion if Europe was coming at ( ), in France
Calais
The code name for the Allied invasion if France was
Operation Overlord
The Allies landed invasion forces in the area of France called
Cobra
The American program to build an atomic bomb was code-named the
Manhattan Project
The atomic bomb, ( ) was the first dropped on the Japanese at Hiroshima. On August ( ), 1945 the second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki
Little Boy, 9
The Japanese will use ( ) attacks on US ships for the first time during the Battle of Leyte Gulf
Kamikaze
After the was the International Tribunal tied German leaders suspected if commuting war crimes at the ( ) Trials
Nuremberg
In overall command of the invasion of France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Head of the Manhattan Project for the military
Gen. Leslie Groves
Led the American Feet at the Batle of Leyte Gulf
William F. Halsey
Upon his return to the Philppines said, “I have returned.”
Douglas MacArthur
