Chapter 16

Question 1

What is blitzkreig?

Answer 1

Hitler’s new tactic to fight, means lightning war

Question 2

Who declared war on Germany in 1939?

Answer 2

Britain and Germany

Question 3

Who signed the nonaggression pact?

Answer 3

Hitler and Stalin

Question 4

What was in the nonaggression pact that was secret?

Answer 4

that Hitler and Stalin were going to split Poland

Question 5

Where did the French and the British line up in the Phony war?

Answer 5

Maginot Line

Question 6

Where did the Germans line up in the Phony war?

Answer 6

Siegfried Line

Question 7

How did the Phony war “break”?

Answer 7

when Hitler launched a surprise attack on Norway and Denmark

Question 8

What three countries did Hitler take over on his way to attack France?

Answer 8

Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

Question 9

Where did Hitler enter to attack France?

Answer 9

the Ardennes forest

Question 10

Where did Hitler push the British and the French to?

Answer 10

Dunkirk

Question 11

What happened at Dunkirk?

Answer 11

the British sent a fleet of ships across the English Channel and almost all of the soldiers were rescued from the French coast

Question 12

How was northern France controlled?

Answer 12

directly

Question 13

How was southern France controlled?

Answer 13

Germans set up a puppet government

Question 14

What was the name of the government in southern France?

Answer 14

Vichy Government

Question 15

Who was the government in southern France ran by?

Answer 15

Petain

Question 16

What did Charles de Gaulle do?

Answer 16

set up a government-in-exile in London and commanded the Free French Army

Question 17

Who is Winston Churchill?

Answer 17

British Prime Minister

Question 18

What was Hitler’s plan during the Battle of Britain?

Answer 18

he wanted the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) to attack the Royal Air Force (British)

Question 19

What did Hitler not know about the British Royal Air Force?

Answer 19

that they had a radar and an Enigma

Question 20

What happened at the Battle of Britain?

Answer 20

Hitler decided to start bombing Britain, but the British were not fazed so then Hitler began bombing at night so British laws were passed that said once the sun went down there were to be no lights on because the German pilots flew by the lights on the ground so the German pilots were unable to see

Question 21

What did Hitler decide to do at the end of the Battle of Britain?

Answer 21

retreat

Question 22

Who attacked Egypt?

Answer 22

Italians

Question 23

Why was Egypt attacked?

Answer 23

because of the Suez canal

Question 24

Who did Hitler send in to help the Italians?

Answer 24

Rommel and his Afrika Korps

Question 25

While Rommel was helping the Italians, where did Hitler begin to attack?

Answer 25

the Balkans

Question 26

Why did Hitler want the Balkans?

Answer 26

to build bases to attack the Soviet Union

Question 27

What is the name of the operation to attack the Soviet Union?

Answer 27

Operation Barbarossa

Question 28

What did the Soviet Union fight back with against the Germans?

Answer 28

Scorched Earth policy

Question 29

Who did Hitler surround?

Answer 29

Leningrad

Question 30

Was Hitler ever able to get Leningrad?

Answer 30

No

Question 31

What was the result of the attack on the Soviet Union?

Answer 31

nothing was gained but a lot of German lives were lost

Question 32

Who signed the Atlantic Charter and what was it?

Answer 32

FDR and Churchill; right of free trade and right to choose own government by the people

Question 33

What happened with the firing of the ships?

Answer 33

a German U-boat fired at a American destroyer and FDR ordered that all German ships seen be fired at on site

Question 34

What upset the Japanese and made them fire on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 34

we stopped trading with them the stuff that they were using for bad things

Question 35

What did the U.S. know about Pearl Harbor?

Answer 35

we knew that there was an attack coming when didn't know when or where

Question 36

What did Japan want to create in Asia?

Answer 36

Asia or Asiatics

Question 37

What is Doolittle's Raid?

Answer 37

Americans flew off from Pearl Harbor and bombed Japan

Question 38

What was the result of Doolittle's Raid?

Answer 38

to show that Japan was vulnerable to attack

Question 39

What was the Battle of the Coral Sea?

Answer 39

the first battle that was fought of the ocean in the air

Question 40

Why was the Battle of the Coral Sea occur?

Answer 40

because the Americans intercepted a Japanese ship headed for the important Allied air base in Port Moresby

Question 41

Who won the Battle of the Coral Sea?

Answer 41

Destruction wise-Japan | meeting goals- U.S.

Question 42

What was the U.S.'s goal at the Battle of the Coral Sea?

Answer 42

to stop southern progression

Question 43

What is the Battle of Midway?

Answer 43

the Japanese wanted to attack the island of Midway, but Nimitz (American) broke a Japanese code and knew that is where they were going so Nimitz hid the American fleet just beyond the horizion and then when the first plane of the Japanese was sent the Americans attacked

Question 44

What was the turning point in WWII?

Answer 44

the Battle of Midway

Question 45

Who is MacArthur?

Answer 45

developed island hopping, believed that the Allied powers should ignore the heavenly defended islands and capture the easy countries and slowly move towards Japan

Question 46

What is Battle of Guadalcanal?

Answer 46

the Battle where the Allies had to win so that the Japanese would not finish a new base

Question 47

Who is General Montgomery?

Answer 47

he beat Rommel

Question 48

What is Operation Torch?

Answer 48

Eisenhower and Montgomery got together and made a Rommel sandwich, Eisenhower from Casablanca and Montgomery from the east

Question 49

What was going on in Italy in 1943?

Answer 49

Allies landed in Sicily, moved into Rome and the old King had Mussolini arrested

Question 50

What is the Battle of Stalingrad?

Answer 50

Hitler attacked Stalingrad and lost

Question 51

What part of Italy did Germany take?

Answer 51

the North where Mussolini was put back in charge

Question 52

What happened after Mussolini was put back in charge?

Answer 52

Allies took back Rome

Question 53

How was Mussolini killed?

Answer 53

he was caught trying to sneak out of the country when an Italian soldier noticed him in the back of an army truck and drug him out and shot him and dragged from the back of a vehicle into Milan where he was hung in the streets and pelted with fruit

Question 54

What was happening here in America?

Answer 54

we were in total war, women, rationing, prejudice and Japanese internment camps

Question 55

What was Calais?

Answer 55

the fake target of the fake army to distract Germany

Question 56

What is D-Day?

Answer 56

known as operation Overlord, the Allies invaded the beaches of Normandy

Question 57

What did Patton do?

Answer 57

he led the United States Third Army that broke the Germans defense where we later marched into Paris, we had also liberated France, Belgium, and Luxembourg

Question 58

What is the Battle of the Bulge?

Answer 58

Hitler's last effort to get the war back on his side, he attacked in the Ardennes Forest

Question 59

Who bombed Berlin?

Answer 59

Soviets

Question 60

What happened to Hitler in the bunker?

Answer 60

he married Eva Braun and committed suicide

Question 61

What was the first at the Battle of Leyte Gulf

Answer 61

kamikazes

Question 62

Where was the first Atomic bomb tested?

Answer 62

New Mexico

Question 63

What happened in Hiroshima?

Answer 63

the first bomb was dropped

Question 64

What happened in Nagasaki?

Answer 64

the second bomb was dropped

Question 65

Who did the Japanese surrender to?

Answer 65

Douglas McCarther