AP World History #71 Flashcards

9650168852	How did global conflict begin in 1931?	Japanese invasion Manchuria	0
9650168853	Who did Japan launch a full scale invasion on in 1937?	China	1
9650168854	What was the Rape of Nanjing?	characterized war waged against civilians, aerial bombing of Shanghai, in Nanjing, widespread rape and slaughter	2
9650168855	How did the Chinese resist Japanese attack?	Nationalists and communists formed "united front" against Japanese, unable to effectively work together, they conducted guerilla attacks, communists gained popular support throughout war	3
9650168856	Who did Japan make a triple pact with?	Germany and Italy	4
9650168857	Who did Japan make a neutrality pact with?	The Soviet Union	5
9650168858	What happened to Italy after WWI?	Italians felt slighted at the Paris Peace Conference, Italian losses high in World War I; economy never recovered, Mussolini promised national glory, empire, annexed Libya; invaded Ethiopia (1935-1936), killed 250,000 Ethiopians	6
9650168859	What happened to Germany after WWI?	deep resentment at Treaty of Versailles, harsh terms: reparations, economic restrictions, former Allies inclined not to object when Hitler violated terms of the treaty, Hitler blamed Jews, communists, liberals for losing the war and accepting the treaty	7
9650168860	What does Anschluss mean?	Union	8
9650168861	What did Hitler refer to the signing of the 1918 armistice as?	The November Crime	9
9650168862	How did Hitler ignore the peace settlement?	Rebuilt military, air force; reinstated draft, took back the Rhineland, 1936, then annexed Austria, 1938 Reclaimed Sudetenland from western Czechoslovakia, 1938	10
9650168863	How did Germany violate the Munich Conference?	Hitler seized most of Czechoslovakia	11
9650168864	What were the agreements of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact?	Both nations agreed not to attack each other and to maintain neutrality if either of them went to war with a third party	12
9650168865	What does panzer mean?	armored	13
9650168866	What does Blitzkrieg mean?	Lightening war	14
9650168867	What is the strategy of Blitzkrieg?	unannounced, surprise attacks	15
9650168868	What happened in the Nazi invasion of Poland?	Poland defeated in one month, divided between Germany and Soviet Union	16
9650168869	What was the Battle of Britain?	Germans' strategy to defeat Britain solely through air attacks, aerial bombing killed forty thousand British civilians; Royal Air Force prevented defeat	17
9650168870	What was the German air force called?	Luftwaffe	18
9650168871	What does Lebensraum mean?	Living space	19
9650168872	What was Operation Barbarossa?	German surprise invasion of Soviet Union, June 1941, wanted eastern land on which to resettle Germans, captured Russian heartland; Leningrad under siege; troops outside Moscow	20
9650168873	Why were Blitzkrieg strategies less effective on Russia?	Soviets drew on tremendous reserves: 360 Soviet divisions against 150 German	21
9650168874	What happened as the Japanese expanded in to Southeast Asia?	United States responded by freezing Japanese assets, implementing oil embargo, demanded withdrawal from China and southeast Asia, Prime minister Tojo Hikedi developed plan of attack	22
9650168875	What happened after the attack on Pearl Harbor?	U.S. naval power in Pacific devastated, United States declared war on Japan; Germany and Italy declared war on United States	23
9650168876	What were Japanese victories after Pearl Harbor?	Conquered Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Indochina, Burma, Singapore	24
9650168877	What slogan of the Japanese masked Japanese imperialism against fellow Asians?	Asia for Asia	25
9650168878	What was the impact of the US and Soviet Union entry to WWII?	Brought vital personnel and industry to Allies, German subs sank 2,452 merchants ships, but U.S. shipyards built more	26
9650168879	What events led up to the Allied victories?	Russians defeated the Germans at Stalingrad, pushed them back, British-U.S. troops invaded North Africa and then Italy, British-U.S. forces invaded northern France at Normandy, overwhelmed Germans on coast of Normandy, 6 June 1944,Round-the-clock strategic bombing by United States and Britain leveled German cities, Germans surrendered unconditionally 8 May 1945; Hitler committed suicide	27
9650168880	What was the turning point of war in the Pacific?	Battle of Midway	28
9650168881	On what two islands of Japan was fighting most savage?	Iwo Jima and Okinawa	29
9650168882	What events led up to Japanese surrender?	U.S. firebombing raids devastated Japanese cities: in Tokyo, one hundred thousand killed, August 1945: atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed two hundred thousand, The Soviet Union declared war on Japan, 8 August, Japanese emperor surrendered unconditionally 15 August, ending WWII	30
9650168883	Who was the emperor during Japan's surrender?	Hirohito	31