Ch. 22 Flashcards

1
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land and sea

A

Amphibious

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2
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war cry shouted by Japanese troops

A

Banzai

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3
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Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin

A

Big three

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4
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“lightning war”; fast-moving attack that sought to penetrate enemy lines

A

Blitzkrieg

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5
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the day when an attack is to be launched; June 6, 1944, the day that the Allied forces invaded France

A

D-day

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6
Q

Nazi secret police

A

Gestapo

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7
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Japanese suicide pilots

A

Kamikaze

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8
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“living space”; Hitler’s early reason for expanding German territory

A

Lebensraum

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9
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Act of Congress authorizing the president to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or other- wise dispose of” military supplies to any country whose security was important to the United State

A

Lend-lease act

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10
Q

Nazi Germany’s air force

A

Luftwaffe

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11
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code name for the Allied invasion of France during World War II

A

Operation Overlord

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12
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British Royal Air Force

A

RAF

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13
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forbidding the sale of certain materials to a country

A

Sanctions

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14
Q

administrative arm of the United Nations

A

Secreatariat

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15
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empire of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945

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Third Reich

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16
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an international organization founded in 1945 that seeks the maintenance of international peace and security

A

United Nations

17
Q

area of France unoccupied by Nazi Germany; Vichy became the seat of the new government

A

Vichy France

18
Q

meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin that recognized Soviet control of eastern Europe

A

Yalta conference