7.7 - 7.8

Question 1

Blitzkrieg

Answer 1

Lightning war / German plan to quickly subdue Poland

Question 2

Vichy France

Answer 2

Pro nazi regime ruled under marshal henri Philippe petain who used to be a WWI hero

Question 3

Destroyers for bases agreement

Answer 3

Where the US promised 50 destroyers in exchange for eight British air and naval bases in the western hemisphere

Question 4

Cash and carry

Answer 4

US allowed belligerent nations to purchase military supplies as long as they paid in cash and transported them by their own ships

Question 5

Lend lease act

Answer 5

US gave up all pretensions of neutrality by lending war materials to Britain

Question 6

Atlantic charter

Answer 6

Set down basic goals for the post world war world / restoration of self government and disarmament of aggressor nations

Question 7

Battle of Britain

Answer 7

The Germans turned to bombing British cities after the British royal air force conducted a rapid on Berlin

Question 8

Luftwaffe

Answer 8

The German air force

Question 9

Churchill

Answer 9

British prime minister during WWII

Question 10

Home front

Answer 10

Countries used all their resources including civilians during the world wars

Question 11

Rosie the riveter

Answer 11

Art that encouraged women to succeed at jobs that were once thought to be for men

Question 12

European theater

Answer 12

British were struggling in Europe and North Africa at first but would soon defeat Erwin Rommel

Question 13

Pacific theater

Answer 13

Where the US stopped Japan from advancing into the pacific

Question 14

El Alamein

Answer 14

British vs German / British defeated Rommel in Egypt

Question 15

Erwin Rommel

Answer 15

German general / led troops into Egypt and threatened to take alexandria

Question 16

Stalingrad

Answer 16

Soviets would defeat the pride of hitlers military after this battle

Question 17

Coral sea

Answer 17

US navy stopped a Japanese fleet set to invade New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, preventing future invasion into Australia

Question 18

Midway

Answer 18

Allied naval forces demonstrated their superiority in the pacific with the destruction of four Japanese aircraft carriers

Question 19

Guadalcanal

Answer 19

The first major allied offensive / allied victory

Question 20

MacArthur

Answer 20

US general that used the strategy island hopping

Question 21

Island hopping

Answer 21

Where the allies attacked islands where the Japanese were weak and skipped those that were strong

Question 22

Aircraft carriers

Answer 22

Ships that allowed planes to take off from and land on their decks at sea / provided air support for battleships and increased the range and flexibility of naval forces

Question 23

D-Day

Answer 23

150,000 allied forces launched an invasion from England, landing on the beaches of Normandy

Question 24

Battle of the buldge

Answer 24

Fought in the Ardennes forest across parts of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg / allied victory

Question 25

Battle of Kursk

Answer 25

The largest tank battle of the war fought about 300 miles south of Moscow

Question 26

VE Day

Answer 26

Germany surrenders to the allies / marked as the official end of the war in Europe

Question 27

VJ Day

Answer 27

Atomic boms cause Japan to surrender / the day of the formal surrender ceremonies, as victory of Japan

Question 28

Armistice day

Answer 28

Allied advances against central powers forced Germany to surrender

Question 29

Armenian genocide

Answer 29

Killing of 600,000 - 1.5 million Armenians / first genocide of the twentieth century

Question 30

Influenza epidemic

Answer 30

Killed 20 million people in Europe, US and more / spread by soldiers coming home from the war

Question 31

Pandemic

Answer 31

A disease prevalent over a large area or the entire world

Question 32

Lost generation

Answer 32

Those suffering from the shock of the war

Question 33

Holomodor

Answer 33

Man made famine created by Soviet’s and greatly affected Ukraine

Question 34

Himmler

Answer 34

The leader of the nazi special police

Question 35

SS

Answer 35

Oversaw policies created by Hitler

Question 36

Gestapo

Answer 36

Nazi germanys secret police force

Question 37

Ghettos

Answer 37

Sections of cities that Jews were forced to live in

Question 38

Final solution

Answer 38

Hitler campaign to begin to kill all Jews

Question 39

Holocaust

Answer 39

Genocide of six million Jews and five million other minorities

Question 40

Rape of Nanking

Answer 40

Japanese soldiers killed 100,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians

Question 41

Asia for asiatics

Answer 41

Where Japan forced people they had conquered into labor programs

Question 42

Comfort women

Answer 42

Chinese and Korean women who were forced to be prostitutes for Japanese soldiers

Question 43

Firebombing

Answer 43

The allies firebombed multiple German cities like Dresden and Hamburg causing huge casualties

Question 44

Hamburg

Answer 44

Victim of forebombing killing about 50,000

Question 45

Dresden

Answer 45

Victim of firebombing killing about 25,000

Question 46

Tokyo

Answer 46

Us used firebombing here destroyed the city

Question 47

Manhattan project

Answer 47

Secret US government research initiative for nuclear weapons

Question 48

Bosnian genocide

Answer 48

Caused from the break up of Yugoslavia

Question 49

Yugoslavia

Answer 49

Country that was home to Serbians, Croats, Slovans, and Muslims

Question 50

Milosevice

Answer 50

Serbian nationalist / empathetic for ethnic purity

Question 51

Ethnic cleansing

Answer 51

Killing or driving people who were not part of the main ethnic group from their homes

Question 52

Balkanization

Answer 52

Yugoslavias disintegration into seperate states

Question 53

Rwandan genocide

Answer 53

Tutus kill president, a Hutu, causing genocide. 500,000 to 1 million civilians killed

Question 54

Tutsi

Answer 54

Rwandan minority

Question 55

Hutu

Answer 55

Rwandan majority

Question 56

Darfur

Answer 56

Sudan / genocide between non Arabs and Muslims

Question 57

Janjaweed

Answer 57

Arab militants / evil men on horseback

Question 58

International criminal court

Answer 58

Charged Sudan president with war crimes

Question 59

Omar Al-bashir

Answer 59

Sudans president