Chapter 16

Question 1

10- year Plan Stalin signed with hitler

Answer 1

Nonaggression pact

Question 2

Lightning war

Answer 2

Blitzkrieg

Question 3

French general who fled to London

Answer 3

Charles de Gaulle

Question 4

British prime minister who declared that his nation would never stand alone

Answer 4

Winston Churchill

Question 5

A series of battles between german and Britain air forces that lasted until May 10, 1941

Answer 5

Battle of Britain

Question 6

Joint declaration that upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government

Answer 6

Atlantic Charter

Question 7

Argued that the US fleet was a “dagger pointed at our throat” and must be destroyed

Answer 7

Isoroku Yamamoto

Question 8

Attack from the Japanese American naval base on December 7, 1941

Answer 8

Pearl Harbor

Question 9

Battle that avenged Pearl Harbor and turned the tide of WWI

Answer 9

Battle of Midway

Question 10

Commander of the allied forces in the Pacific

Answer 10

Douglas MacArthur

Question 11

Battle for the control of the island that turned into a savage struggle

Answer 11

Battle of Guadalcanal

Question 12

Germanic people’s

Answer 12

Aryans

Question 13

Mass slaughter of civilians- mostly Jews

Answer 13

Holocaust

Question 14

“night of living glass” November 9

Answer 14

Kristallnacht

Question 15

Segregated Jewish areas

Answer 15

Ghettos

Question 16

Hitlers program of action

Answer 16

Final Solution

Question 17

Systematic killing of an entire people

Answer 17

Genocide

Question 18

General that took the key port city of Tobruk in June 1492

Answer 18

Erwin Rommel

Question 19

Who London sent to take control of British forces in North Africa

Answer 19

Bernard Montgomery

Question 20

Led the force of 107,000 troops to launch operation torch

Answer 20

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 21

Luftwaffe went on nightly bombing raids that set much the city of Stalingrad ablaze

Answer 21

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 22

Invasion of Normandy/ greatest land and sea attack in history/ June 6, 1944

Answer 22

D-day

Question 23

Germans tanks broke though eat American defenses along the 85-mike front of the Ardennes

Answer 23

Battle of the Bulge

Question 24

Japanese suicide pilots

Answer 24

Kamikaze

Question 25

Series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany after WWII , in which nazis leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity

Answer 25

Nuremberg Trials

Question 26

Disbanding the Japanese armed forces

Answer 26

Demilitarization

Question 27

What event unleashed World War I?

Answer 27

Hitlers invasion of Poland

Question 28

Why was capturing Egypt Suez Canal so important to the axis powers?

Answer 28

It was key to reaching the oil fields of the Middle East

Question 29

What was Yamamoto objective at Pearl Harbor?

Answer 29

To destroy the dagger pointed at Japan’s throat

Question 31

How did japan try to win support from other Asian countreis?

Answer 31

They needed financial help/ they went and took over countries so they can show that they can be help

Question 32

Name two tactics hitler used to rid Germany of Jews before creating his final solution?

Answer 32

Creating ghettos for the Jews to “live” in, launched Attacks on Jewish homes, and made the “others” wear labels so they stand out and they can be noticed more

Question 33

What tactics did hitler use during the final solution?

Answer 33

Made the conditions in the camp even more terrible, established gas chambers to kill thousands of Jews at once, people would be beaten for “not working hard enough”

Question 34

Why were items rationed during the war?

Answer 34

With factories turning out products for the war, the products for the citizens became scarce so they limited them to certain amounts

Question 35

What was operation overlord?

Answer 35

invasion of Normandy was the greater land and sea attack in history

Question 36

Why did Europeans leave their homes following the war?

Answer 36

Joined an army of displaced persons wandering Europe after war/ homes were destroyed/ people didn’t have earnings t buy food that was available

Question 37

What were two of the most important steps that MacArthur took in japan following the war?

Answer 37

Began process of demilitarization and turned attention to democratization