chapter 32 vocab

Question 1

The city was sieged by nazis which cut 2.5 million residents off from food and supplies; stalin refused to surrender the city and 1 million residents died

Answer 1

leningrad

Question 2

atrocity that occurred in the Philippines; 50 miles march of 70000 POWS that was reduced to 54000 due to the systematic murder of allied captured forces

Answer 2

Bataan death march

Question 3

means “lightning war” and consists of using waves of airplanes and tanks then infantry

Answer 3

Blitz Krieg

Question 4

air raids on Britain that began as military sites but later became more focused on civilian sites

Answer 4

Battle of Britain

Question 5

turning point in the war in the pacific; launched by admiral chester nimitz

Answer 5

battle of midway

Question 6

french patriot who organized a french government while in exile in London and continued to fight for french liberation until it was achieved in 1944

Answer 6

de gaulle

Question 7

Hitlers offensive to attempt to capture the soviet capital

Answer 7

march on moscow

Question 8

hitlers attack on the soviet union which ended the nazi-soviet non-agression pact

Answer 8

Operation Barbarossa

Question 9

a secret agreement created between the US and Britain that will serve as the basis for peace at the end of thewar

Answer 9

Atlantic Charter

Question 10

series of laws passed by the US affirming their desire to remain out of the war

Answer 10

Neutrality Act

Question 11

Puppet government created in the southern part of france

Answer 11

Vichy France

Question 12

fortified border between germanny and france that hitler avoided invading via belgium and luxembourg

Answer 12

Maginot line

Question 13

site of the evacuation of Allied troops by an amateur armada consisting of both military and civilian vessels after being trapped by the nazis

Answer 13

dunkirk

Question 14

prime minister from britain who stood alone against the Nazis despite constant air raids of major citys

Answer 14

churchill

Question 15

nicknamed “the desert fox” he was send to aftrica to bail out Mussolini after he was defeated by the allied powers

Answer 15

Erwin Rommel

Question 16

launched raids against japanese targets; raised morale and proved that the Japanese were vulnerable

Answer 16

James Doolittle

Question 17

allied strategy divised by douglas mcarthur to capture island by island and eventually get close enough to the Japanese homeland to launch an invasion

Answer 17

island hopping

Question 18

law that allowed president franklin delano roosevelt to lend or lease supplies to American allies which effectively ended American neutrality

Answer 18

lend lease act

Question 19

location of a suprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 which brought the US into WWII

Answer 19

pearl harbor

Question 20

Japanese pilots that purposefully flew airplanes strapped with explosives into allied targets

Answer 20

kamikaze piolots