Unit 6 - World War 2 Flashcards

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.