Chapter 16 And 17 Study Guide

Question 1

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 1

The turning point of the war in Europe. Between the Germans and Soviet Union

Question 2

Sudetenland

Answer 2

The outer border of Czechoslovakia and hurled promised he would make it his last territorial gain

Question 3

Rationing

Answer 3

A country effort. Rationed: has, sugar, electricity, etc.

Question 4

First people to come upon the death camps

Answer 4

Soviet soldiers

Question 5

Battle of coral sea

Answer 5

Stopped Japan from attacking Australia

Question 6

Kristallnact— where did Jews go after?

Answer 6

Ghettos/ fled

Question 7

What countries hurled targeted first

Answer 7

Austria, Czechoslovakia

Question 8

Agriculture during ww2

Answer 8

It rose and flourished

Question 9

Increase in marriage

Answer 9

300%

Question 10

Lend-lease act

Answer 10

U.s was willing to send arms to the allies

Question 11

Roosevelt’s fear of going to war

Answer 11

He didn’t want to loose support

Question 12

Appeasement

Answer 12

Giving into an aggressor as yo not cause conflict

Question 13

Germany and the soviet unions nonaggression pact

Answer 13

They agreed to not invade each other

Question 14

Battle of the bulge

Answer 14

Hitlers last attempt to fight back

Question 15

War plan priorities

Answer 15

The u. S will fight Germany and Italy first, then move on to fight japan

Question 16

Reasons for invading Austria and Czechoslovakia

Answer 16

There were Germans being “abused”

Question 17

How scientists mobilized for war

Answer 17

Radar, sonar, atomic bomb, pesticides, penicillin

Question 18

Yale’s conference

Answer 18

A meeting between the allies. They were discussing what to do with Germany after the war ended. Created United Nations

Question 19

The phony war

Answer 19

The Germans and French sat and waited for each other to invade each other

Question 20

Number of Jews killed in the holocaust

Answer 20

6 million

Question 21

How women participated in ww2

Answer 21

Nurses, took men’s jobs, helped on the homefront

Question 22

Manhattan project

Answer 22

Code name for atomic bomb research

Question 23

Nuremberg trials

Answer 23

Tried nazis for war crimes. Established self responsibility even during wartime

Question 24

GI bill

Answer 24

Said if people enlisted, the government would pay for their collage and housing afterwards

Question 25

Sonar and radar

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New tech advances

Question 26

Purpose of the office of price administration

Answer 26

Used to fight inflation

Question 27

Joseph stalin

Answer 27

Communist leader in Russia

Question 28

Benito Mussolini

Answer 28

Fascist leader in Italy

Question 29

Adolf hitler

Answer 29

Dictator in Germany

Question 30

Winston Churchill

Answer 30

The British prime minister

Question 31

FDR

Answer 31

U. S. President

Question 32

Final solution

Answer 32

Hitler decided to implement death camps to exterminate Jews

Question 33

Genocide

Answer 33

The intentional mass extermination of a group, more specifically because of race, religion, etc

Question 34

Holocaust

Answer 34

The mass extermination of Jews during ww2

Question 35

Nuremberg laws

Answer 35

Determined who was a Jew

Question 36

Neutrality acts

Answer 36

Said US won’t give weapons to warring countries

Question 37

Cash and carry

Answer 37

That countries will have to pay cash for weapons and provide their own transportation

Question 38

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The 2 Japanese cities bombed by the atomic bomb

Question 39

Blitzkrieg

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The lightening war, Germany’s new form of fighting

Question 40

War production board

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Determined which factories will be consumer and which will be wartime producers

Question 41

Tuskegee airmen

Answer 41

All black air squadron that were hero’s in combat

Question 42

D-day

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3 million Allies soldiers, the biggest military invasions. Invaded Normandy. The goal was to liberate France

Question 43

Battle of midway

Answer 43

The turning point of the war in the pacific

Question 44

Kamikaze

Answer 44

The way the japs would fight. It was basically suicide fighting

Question 45

Executive order 9066

Answer 45

Ordered the Japanese Americans to go to internment camps

Question 46

Zoot -suit

Answer 46

The Mexican Americans way of rebelling by wearing pleated pants and a long coat

Question 47

Island hopping

Answer 47

America went from island to island liberating them from the Japanese