Ch 17 names and terms

Question 1

Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace

Answer 1

Appeasement

Question 2

Opposition to war

Answer 2

Pacifism

Question 3

Laws that forbade the sale of arms to any nation at war

Answer 3

Neutrality Acts

Question 4

Germany, Italy, Japan

Answer 4

Axis Powers

Question 5

Conservative General in Spain who led a revolt that started a bloody civil war

Answer 5

Franciso Franco

Question 6

Union of Austria and Germany

Answer 6

Anschluss

Question 7

Region of Western Czechoslovakia that contained 3 million Germans

Answer 7

Sudentenland

Question 8

Russia and Germany agreed not to fight one another but to divide up parts of Europe

Answer 8

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Question 9

Lighting war

Answer 9

Blitzkrieg

Question 10

German Air Force

Answer 10

Luftwaffle

Question 11

A region in France where 300,000 British and French soldiers were rescued and ferried back to Britain

Answer 11

Dunkirk

Question 12

Hitler set up a puppet state in Southern France with this as its capital

Answer 12

Vichy

Question 13

One of Hitler’s best commanders and known as the Desert Fox

Answer 13

General Erwin Rommel

Question 14

Detention centers for civilians considered to be enemies of the state

Answer 14

Concentration Camps

Question 15

A period when Germany massacred 6 million Jewish people during WWII

Answer 15

Holocaust

Question 16

This allowed the U.S to sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense the President deem vital to the defense of the U.S

Answer 16

Lend-Lease Act

Question 17

Female character that built planes, warships, produced munitions, to show the vital part that women could play in the war at home

Answer 17

Rosie the Riveter

Question 18

Ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes

Answer 18

Aircraft Carriers

Question 19

Supreme leader of the Allied Forces

Answer 19

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 20

One of the most costliest defeats of WWII for Hitler in Germany

Answer 20

Stalingrad

Question 21

The Allied assault of Normandy France on June 6th, 1944

Answer 21

D-Day

Question 22

A conference where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin agreed upon Russia entering the war in the Pacific

Answer 22

Yalta Conference

Question 23

May 8th, 1945, Victory in Europe Day

Answer 23

V.E Day

Question 24

65-mile forced march resulting in the deaths of many American and Filipino soldiers

Answer 24

Bataan Death March

Question 25

To recapture some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others

Answer 25

Island-Hopping

Question 26

Led the American forces in the Philippines and during the Island-Hopping period

Answer 26

Douglas MacArthur

Question 27

Pilots who undertook suicide missions crashing their explosive-laden planes into American warships

Answer 27

Kamikaze

Question 28

American codename for the operation to build the atomic bomb

Answer 28

Manhatten Project

Question 29

Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped

Answer 29

Hiroshima

Question 30

Second Japanese city that was bombed using an atomic bomb

Answer 30

Nagasaki