WWII final test Flashcards
__________(“living space”) saw Mussolini wanting Italy’s territorial extent to cover the Mediterranean as a whole and Northern Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean .
Spazio vitale
Who wanted to create a self-sufficient bloc of Asian nations led by Japan, free from Western rule.
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
_________ (“living space”) was that Hitler believed Eastern Europe had to be taken to create a vast German empire for more physical space, a greater population, and territory to supply food/raw materials.
Lebensraum
Who was the leader of Japan
Hirohito
Who was the Japanese prime minister/general of the Imperial Japanese Army (until 1944).
Hedeki Tojo
In 1931, where did Japan militarily occupy? (seen by some as the beginning of the war in Asia)
Manchuria
Who invaded Japan in 1937
China
The invasion of what nation confirmed that the League of Nations was powerless to stop foreign invasions, thus symbolically ending the League.
Ethiopia
Germany annexed Austria; this was called ____________ (“connection” or “joining”).
Anschluss
At the Munich Conference (September 1938)–British PM Chamberlain and French President Daladier allowed Hitler to take the ______________ as he promised not to take the rest of Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
What is the policy of trying to avoid war by accepting some demands of the aggressor.
Appeasement
Germany and the Soviet Union entered what pact? [Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact].
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
This pact agreed that the Soviet Union and Germany would partition (split) Poland if Germany took it over.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
What type of fighting did Germany use to take Poland?
blitzkrieg,
The British officially recognize the Battle of Britain as being from July 10 until October 31, 1940, which overlaps the period of large-scale night attacks known as __________, that lasted from September 7, 1940, to May 11, 1941.
the Blitz
In 1941, who did Hitler betray
Stalin
In August 1941, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill agreed to the___________________ This meant that Great Britain and the United States agreed to defend democracy, free trade, and economic advancement.
the Atlantic charter.
On December 7, 1941 where did Japan attack
Pear Harbor, Hawaii
Who was known as the “Desert Fox” and led the German campaign in Northern Africa (1941-1943)
Erwin Rommel
Who was the leader of the Schutzstaffel (SS—the agency of surveillance and terror/military branch of the Nazis).
Heinrich Himmler
Who was the head of the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs
Adolf Eichman
Where do the allies invade after the victory in Tunisia and securing Africa.
Italy
On June 6, 1944, the Allied landing in northern France, is also known as what?
D-day
B-17s– “_____________”
B-24s– ”_____________”
Flying Fortress
Liberator
What battle was the final German offensive and caught the Allied forces completely off guard.
The Battle of the Bulge
On May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered. Also known as what day?
V-E Day
What Conference in February 1945 planned for Germany’s defeat; it ended up initiating the Cold War.
The Yalta Conference
Who lead the United States in the Pacific against Hedeki Tojo and Japan.
Douglas MacArthur
Where did the United States use an “active defense” plan (defined by the territories of Japan. At its peak, the empire stretched throughout eastern China, Southeast Asia, the islands of Oceania, and even the Aleutian islands in North America
Pacific Theater
What Battle (5/4-5/8/1942) was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged with each other, as well as the first in which neither side’s ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.
Battle of the Coral Sea
What Battle (6/3-6/7/1942) was an important battle as the United States defeated the Japanese imperial fleet. This was the first time that the Japanese imperial fleet had ever been defeated in battle. This battle would be the end of the “active defense” plan.
The Battle of Midway
What Battle (8/7/1942-2/9/1943) was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
The Battle of Guadalcanal
What was the research and development program that produced the first nuclear weapons
The Manhattan Project
Who took over after Roosevelt died in office on April 12, 1945,
Vice President Harry Truman
On August 6, 1945, where was the first atomic bomb dropped that killed 70,000 to 135,000 people?
on Hiroshima
On August 9, 1945, where was the second atomic bomb was dropped that killed 60,000 to 80,000 people?
on Nagasaki
The day formal surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945 is commonly known as…?
V-J Day
What plan was American-provided economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. (officially the Economic Recovery Act of 1948)
The Marshall Plan
What was created to hopefully prevent another world war like the one they just ended?
The United Nations
What was created in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome. It was designed to create a common market among its members through the elimination of most trade barriers and the establishment of a common external trade policy. In 2009, it formally ceased to exist and its institutions were directly absorbed by the European Union.
The European Economic Community (EEC)
