372411555 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | Agreement signed by 62 nations in 1928 that outlawed war except in cases of self-defense. | |
372411556 | Appeasement Policy (Munich Pact) | France and England agree to give Hitler the Sudentenland if he promises not to attack any more nations in Europe. | |
372411557 | Nonaggression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) | Germany and the Soviets promise not to fight each other, agree to split Poland, and the Soviets gain control of Finland. | |
372411558 | Lend-Lease Program | US president may sell, lend, or trade weapons with any country he chooses. | |
372411559 | Blitzkrieg | Lightening War. Airplanes, tanks, and infantry. | |
372411560 | Wolf Pack | German submarines used to sink ships carrying supplies and weapons across the Atlantic. | |
372411561 | Phony War | Seven month stretch during which the French and British awaited the German attack. | |
372411562 | Ethiopia | When the League of Nations refused to send them aid, this country fell to Italy in 1935. | |
372411563 | Manchuria | Japan attacked this area in 1931. | |
372411564 | Rhineland | In 1936, Germany annexed this area of land between Germany and France. | |
372411565 | Austria | In 1938, in addition to taking the Sudentenland, Hitler took control of this country. | |
372411566 | Poland | France and Britain declared war on Germany after Hitler invaded this country. | |
372411567 | France, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway | Countries captured by the Germans in 1940. | |
372411568 | Britain | Hitler led nightly bombing raids against this country. | |
372411569 | Japan | US began an embargo against this country in 1941. | |
372411570 | United States | Japan attacked this nation on December 7, 1941. | |
372411571 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Elected to his third term as US president in 1940. | |
372411572 | Neville Chamberlain | Prime Minister of Great Britain. Signed the Munich Pact with Germany. Resigned after France fell to Germany. | |
372411573 | Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain. Led Britain through WWII and Cold War. | |
372411574 | Identify the three major Axis powers. | Germany Italy Japan | |
372411575 | Identify three European nations who remained neutral during WW2. | Spain Sweden Ireland | |
372411576 | Operation Torch | Allied plan to push the Axis powers out of Africa. | |
372411577 | Baatan Death March | 75,000 Allied soldiers were captured in the Philippines and forced to take a 65-mile death march. | |
372411578 | Coral Sea | 1st Allied victory in the Pacific. | |
372411579 | Midway | Allied troops attack and sink 4 Japanese aircraft carriers. The turning point in the war. | |
372411580 | Doolittle Raids | US pilots cross Japanese airspace and bomb major Japanese cities. | |
372411581 | Stalingrad | Soviet winters stun and kill thousands of German soldiers. Remaining Germans are captured. | |
372411582 | D-Day | The Allies cross the English Channel attacking the beaches at Normandy to liberate the country of France. | |
372411583 | Battle of the Bulge | Last German offensive. Germans lose to inexperienced US troops around Christmas of 1944. | |
372411584 | Elbe River | US troops attack from the west and Soviets from the east. Meet at this German river in April 1945. | |
372411585 | Hiroshima | US drops atomic bomb on this city to expedite the end of WW2. | |
372411586 | Identify the Big Three and the country they represent. | FDR US Churchill GB Stalin USSR | |
372411587 | Identify the three fronts of World War 2. | Europe Africa Pacific | |
372411588 | List two changes brought by the Nuremberg Laws. | Jews had to wear yellow stars and carry identification. | |
372411589 | Island Hopping | Strategy used by Allies in Pacific. Jumped from island to island | |
372411590 | Kamikaze pilots | suicide pilots who sacrificed their life for their country. | |
372411591 | Code Talkers | US used Navajo Indians to send secret code. Never decoded by Japanese | |
372411592 | Holocaust | Nazi's killed over 6,000,000 Jews and 3,000,000 others in concentration camps. | |
372411593 | Genocide | Extermination of a race or ethnicity | |
372411594 | Final Solution | Hitler's plan to eliminate all Jews | |
372411595 | Kristallnacht | Night of the Broken Glass. Revenge for the killing of a German diplomat by a Jewish man. Jewish businesses and synagogues destroyed. Hundreds murdered, thousands sent to concentration camps. |
Unit 6 - World War 2 Flashcards
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