Ch.12 World War 2

Question 1

Dictator

Answer 1

Leaders who control their nations by force

Question 2

Totalitarian

Answer 2

Leaders crush all opposition and try to total control all areas of society

Question 3

Fascism

Answer 3

Government characterized by militarism and racism

Question 4

Appeasement

Answer 4

Avoiding war by accepting demand

Question 5

Anti-semitism

Answer 5

Hatred of Jews

Question 6

Benito Mussolini

Answer 6

Italian dictator who won power by saying that Italy won little in the treaty of Versailles

Question 7

Joseph Stalin

Answer 7

Was a murderous communist leader of the Soviet Union

Question 8

Munich conference

Answer 8

British and French leaders agreed to give Sudetenland to Germany if they halted expansion

Question 9

Adolf Hitler

Answer 9

Was the leader of the Nazi party who practiced anti-semitism

Question 10

Rhineland

Answer 10

The treaty of Versailles had made it a neutral area

Question 11

Austria

Answer 11

Hitler insisted that German speaking Austria should be united with Germany

Question 12

Sudetenland

Answer 12

Hotter claimed that they were being mistreated so they should be part of Germany

Question 13

Invasion of Poland

Answer 13

Germany attacked Poland swiftly with bombs and machine guns also they had thousands of soldiers

Question 14

American Neutrality

Answer 14

When Roosevelt won he openly supported the allies and lend-lease act to lend weapons to the allies

Question 15

Blizkrieg

Answer 15

Lightning war

Question 16

Allied powers

Answer 16

Great Britain and France

Question 17

Axis powers

Answer 17

Germany,Italy, and Japan

Question 18

Winston Churchill

Answer 18

Helped boost moral during the Battle of Britain

Question 19

Pearl Harbor

Answer 19

When Japan attacked the Hawaiian military base

Question 20

Battle of Britain

Answer 20

When Germany bombed Britain for 8 months

Question 21

Interment camps

Answer 21

After Pearl Harbor Japanese-Americans were moved to harsh, uncomfortable, and overcrowded camps

Question 22

Tuskegee airmen

Answer 22

African American fighter pilot shot down over 200 enemy planes

Question 23

Navajo Code Talkers

Answer 23

Navajo native Americans spoke a language that only they knew so the US used it as a code that could not be deciphered

Question 24

Genocide

Answer 24

Wiping out an entire group of people

Question 25

Holocaust

Answer 25

When hitler and the Nazis killed 6 million Jews and others like people with disabilities or are homosexual

Question 26

Concentration camps

Answer 26

Large prisons used to hold people for political reasons

Question 27

Dwight D Eisenhower

Answer 27

American general who drove Germany out of North Africa

Question 28

George Patton

Answer 28

American general who lead the troops during the invasion of Italy

Question 29

D-Day

Answer 29

The invasion to liberate Paris that went wrong because Germany had the upper hand

Question 30

Harry Truman

Answer 30

After Roosevelt died suddenly he vacate president

Question 31

Invasion of Italy

Answer 31

As the allies advanced the Italians overthrew Benito Mussolini and surrendered and took Rome the capital of Italy

Question 32

Invasion of North Africa

Answer 32

American forces joined British forces in Africa advanced west and drove Germany out of Africa

Question 33

The final solution

Answer 33

When the Nazis destroyed the evidence of the Holocaust by building death camps and killing as many Jews as possible

Question 34

Island hopping

Answer 34

Attacking and capturing key islands

Question 35

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 35

American general who was forced to retreat in the Philippines

Question 36

Bataan Death March

Answer 36

Japanese forced their Batam prisoners to march to a prison camp and many died along the way

Question 37

Battle of midway

Answer 37

The US navy destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and hundreds of planes

Question 38

The manhattan project

Answer 38

A top secret atomic bomb that Franklin Roosevelt built but Harry Truman dropped

Question 39

Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Answer 39

The US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima between 80,000 and 120,000 people died

3 days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki between 35,000 and 74,000 people died