Chapter 16

Question 1

Two countries promising to not attack each other

Answer 1

Nonaggression pact

Question 2

Lightning war

Answer 2

Blitzkrieg

Question 3

French general that fled to London where he set up a government-in-exile committed to reconquering France, he went on to organize the Free French military forces tat battled until 1944

Answer 3

Charles de Gaulle

Question 4

New British prime minister

Answer 4

Winston Churchill

Question 5

Horrible time when Hitler bombed England mercilessly, raged on until May 10, 1941

Answer 5

The Battle of Britain

Question 6

Issued by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill on August 9th, upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government

Answer 6

Atlantic Charter

Question 7

Japans greatest naval strategist

Answer 7

Isoroku Yamamoto

Question 8

December 7, 1941 when the Japanese bombed Hawaii and sent the US into WWII

Answer 8

Pearl Harbor

Question 9

The turning in the war challenging the Allies to finally go on the offensive

Answer 9

Battle of Midway

Question 10

Commander of the Allies’ land forces in the Pacific

Answer 10

Douglas MacArthur

Question 11

MacArthur’s first target, At dawn on August 7, 1942, About 19,000 US Marines with Australian support, landed in Guadalcanal

Answer 11

Battle of Guadalcanal

Question 12

The Germanic people, a “master race”

Answer 12

Aryans

Question 13

The mass slaughter of civilians-especially Jews

Answer 13

Holocaust

Question 14

“Night of Broken Glass” Night of November 9th when Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues

Answer 14

Kristallnacht

Question 15

Segregated Jewish areas

Answer 15

Ghettos

Question 16

Hitler’s plan of a pogrom of genocide

Answer 16

The Final Solution

Question 17

The systematic killing of an entire people

Answer 17

Genocide

Question 18

Nazi general in Norther Africa

Answer 18

Erwin Rommel

Question 19

Took control of British forces in North Africa

Answer 19

General Bernard Montgomery

Question 20

Began on August 23, 1942, after this battle the Germans went on the defensive, proved how strong the Soviets were in winter

Answer 20

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 21

British, American, French, and Canadian troops fought their way onto a 60 mile stretch of beach in Normandy

Answer 21

D-Day

Question 22

Germany’s last major stand in WWII, occurred in December 1944

Answer 22

Battle of the Bulge

Question 23

Japanese suicide pilots

Answer 23

Kamikaze

Question 24

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Answer 24

Nuremberg Trials

Question 25

Disbanding armed forces

Answer 25

Demilitarization