Chapter 16

Question 1

An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another

Answer 1

Nonaggression pact

Question 2

“Lightning War”—— a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces

Answer 2

Blitzkrieg

Question 3

French general, fled to London after France fell

Answer 3

Charles de Gaulle

Question 4

The new British prime minister, had already declared that his nation would never give in

Answer 4

Winston Churchill

Question 5

Series of battles between German and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941

Answer 5

Battle of Britain

Question 6

A declaration of principles issued in Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the allied peace plan at the end of World War II

Answer 6

Atlantic charter

Question 7

Japan’s greatest strategist, also argued that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii was “a dagger pointed at our throat” and must be destroyed

Answer 7

Isoroku Yamamoto

Question 8

In Hawaii awoke to the roar of explosives, a Japanese attack was underway

Answer 8

Pearl Harbor

Question 9

A 1942 Sea and Air battle of World War II, in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific

Answer 9

Battle of midway

Question 10

Was commander of the allied land forces on the Pacific, he believed that storming each island would b a long, costly effort, instead he wanted to “island hop” past Japanese strongpoints

Answer 10

Douglas MacArthur

Question 11

A 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which allied troops drove Japanese forces from the pacific island f Guadalcanal

Answer 11

Battle of Guadalcanal

Question 12

An indo European people who about 1500 b.c. Began the migrate into the Indian subcontinent, to the nazi the Germanic people’s who formed a “master race”

Answer 12

Aryans

Question 13

A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out b the nazi government of Germany before and during World War II

Answer 13

Holocaust

Question 14

“Night of broken glass” the night of November 9, 1938 On which Max storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany

Answer 14

Kristallnacht

Question 15

City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live

Answer 15

Ghettos

Question 16

Hitler soon grew impatient waiting for Jews to die from starvation or disease in the ghettos so he decide to take more direct action his plan was called the ______

Answer 16

“Final Solution”

Question 17

The systematic killing of entire people

Answer 17

Genocide

Question 18

Took the key port city of To I’m in June 1942// was a General

Answer 18

Erwin Rommel

Question 19

“Monty” to his men—- to take control of British forces in North Africa

Answer 19

Bernard Montgomery

Question 20

On November 8, an allied force if more than 107,000 troops mostly Americans landed in Morocco and Algeria this force was lead by general _____

Answer 20

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 21

A 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which Herman forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union

Answer 21

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 22

June 6, 1944— The day on which the allies began their invasion of the European mainland during World War II

Answer 22

D-Day

Question 23

A 1944-1945 battle in which allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War II

Answer 23

Battle of the bulge

Question 24

During World War II, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them

Answer 24

Kamikaze

Question 25

A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity

Answer 25

Nuremberg Trails

Question 26

A reduction in a country’s ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons

Answer 26

Demilitarization