WWII Chapter 24 & 25

Question 1

What government exerts almost complete control over people

Answer 1

Totalitarian

Question 2

Who took over the Soviet Union in 1924

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin

Question 3

___stresses national, needs of state above individual

Answer 3

Fascism

Question 4

_____plays on fears of economic collapse, communism

Answer 4

Benito Mussolini

Question 5

Who was the leader of National Socialist German Worker’s Party

Answer 5

Adolf Hitler

Question 6

What was Hitlers novel - Mein Kampf about

Answer 6

Basic beliefs of nazism based on extreme nationalism

Question 7

What did General Francisco Franco do in 1939

Answer 7

Rebels against Spanish republic

Question 8

What were the purposes of the neutrality acts

Answer 8

To try to keep the U.S. out of future wars

Question 9

Who condemned appeasement policy and warned war will follow

Answer 9

Winston Churchill

Question 10

What are appeasements

Answer 10

Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor

Question 11

What did Hitler sign so that him and Stalin would not attack each other

Answer 11

Non aggression pact

Question 12

What is fascism?

Answer 12

A political system, headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism, and no tolerance of opposition

Question 13

What did Germany do that was considered the “lightning war”

Answer 13

Invade Poland in Blitzkrieg

Question 14

Who set up government-in-exile in England

Answer 14

General Charles de Gaule

Question 15

What was Kristallnacht

Answer 15

Nazis attack Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues

Question 16

What’s the difference between ghettos and concentration camps

Answer 16

•concentration camps: labor camps
•ghettos: segregated areas in Polish cities

Question 17

What became known as the Axis powers

Answer 17

Germany, Japan, Italy and their signing of the Tripartite pact which was a mutual defense treaty

Question 18

What was the Lend-Lease Act

Answer 18

-U.S. to lend or lease supplies for defense

Question 19

What was the Atlantic charter

Answer 19

Joint declaration of war arms (aka Allies)

Question 20

What was known as the nations that fought the axis powers

Answer 20

Allies

Question 21

Who was Hideki Tojo

Answer 21

Chief of staff of army that invaded China - prime minister

Question 22

Who was George Marshall

Answer 22

Army chief of staff-calls for women’s corps

Question 23

What was Women’s auxiliary army corps (WAAC)

Answer 23

Women in noncombat positions

Question 24

Who was A. Philip Randolph

Answer 24

Head of brotherhood of sleeping car porters (led march for discrimination)

Question 25

What was the Manhattan Project

Answer 25

Development of the atomic bomb

Question 26

What was Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Answer 26

Freezes prices and fights inflation

Question 27

What was the war production board (WPB)

Answer 27

Says which companies convert production -allocates raw materials -organizes collection of recyclable materials

Question 28

What was rationing during WWII

Answer 28

Fixed allotments of goods needed by military

Question 29

What did General Dwight D. Eisenhower do?

Answer 29

Commanded invasion of North Africa (operation torch)

Question 30

What was D-Day?

Answer 30

Invasion of Normandy beach led by Eisenhower

Question 31

What did the Allies do during D-Day

Answer 31

Set up a phantom army - and sent a fake radio broadcast that Germany fell for

Question 32

What did General Omar Bradley do

Answer 32

Bombed to create gap in enemy defense line

Question 33

What did General George Patton do

Answer 33

Lead third army and reached Paris in August

Question 34

Who was FDR’s running mate when he was reelected for a fourth term

Answer 34

Harry S. Truman

Question 35

What was the Battle of the Bulge

Answer 35

A month-long battle of World War II, in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war

Question 36

What is V-E day

Answer 36

Victory in Europe day -when the Germans were defeated during WWII

Question 37

Who became president when FDR died

Answer 37

Harry S. Truman

Question 38

Who lead the allied forces in the Pacific

Answer 38

General Douglas MacArthur

Question 39

Who commanded the U.S. naval forces in the Pacific

Answer 39

Chester Nimitz

Question 40

What did Japan use to attack pilots

Answer 40

Kamikaze

Question 41

What was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific theatre and made US leadership question the potential cost of a mainland invasion of Japan

Answer 41

Battle of Okinawa

Question 42

What was operation torch

Answer 42

The Allied invasion of axis controlled north Africa, commanded by Eisenhower. Allies would control area and give a strategic position to invade Europe from the south.

Question 43

In this U.S. victory a key airfield was gained that allowed the U.S.’s heavy bombers to strike Japanese main islands for the first time.

Answer 43

Battle of Iwo Jima

Question 44

Meeting between FDR, Churchill and Stalin to decide the fate of Germany and postwar; divided Germany into occupied zones; set groundwork for United Nations

Answer 44

Yalta Conference

Question 45

Allies won control of the North Atlantic Ocean and opened the supply lines to Britain to prepare for an eventual European invasion

Answer 45

Battle of the Atlantic

Question 46

Prime minister of Great Britain that was responsible for the policy of appeasement with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany

Answer 46

Neville Chamberlain

Question 47

Turning point of the war in the pacific; the Americans were ready for the Japanese attack because they had codebreakers; 4 Japanese carriers sunk; started island - hopping campaign

Answer 47

Battle of midway

Question 48

Early WWII battle where the British Royal Air Force fended off the German Luftwaffe and handed Hitler his first loss; Hitler had to give up hopes of British Invasion

Answer 48

Battle of Britain

Question 49

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

Answer 49

Winston Churchill

Question 50

US Supreme Court decision that internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional because it was not based on race, but on “military urgency”

Answer 50

Korematsu v. United States

Question 51

Turning point of the war on Eastern Front; Germans were fighting from house to house when Soviet reinforcements arrived and trapped them, Bloodiest battle of Euro theatre and Soviets pushed Germans back east.

Answer 51

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 52

A system where cargo ships traveled in groups, protected by warships

Answer 52

Convoy system

Question 53

Who was the director of the manhattan project

Answer 53

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 54

Which Japanese island was bombed first and by which bomb?

Answer 54

Hiroshima - little boy

Question 55

Which Japanese island was bombed second and by which bomb

Answer 55

Nagasaki - fat man

Question 56

What were the Nuremberg trials

Answer 56

A trial for surviving Nazi leaders, and their war, crimes, showing individuals are responsible for their actions, even in war time

Question 57

What did the GI bill of rights (servicemen’s readjustment Act) do?

Answer 57

Payed education; loan guarantees for homes, new businesses

Question 58

Racial tensions rose in _____

Answer 58

Northern cities where James farmer found Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) •worked in racial segregation in North

Question 59

What were zoot suits

Answer 59

Anti-Mexican riots that involved thousands servicemen and civilians

Question 60

What did Hawaii’s governor force of Japanese Americans

Answer 60

Internment (confinement)

Question 61

What did the Japanese American Citizens League push for after the war

Answer 61

Compensation