Chapter 22 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Name the dictators who rose to power in Italy and the Soviet Union in the 1920s and in Germany in the 1930s.
Italy - Benito Mussolini
Soviet Union - Joseph Stalin
Germany - Adolf Hitler
What African nation did Italy conquer in the 1930s?
Ethiopia
What was Anschluss?
Union of Germany and Austria.
What nation was forced to surrender one region of its land to Germany at the Munich Conference? What was the name of that region?
Czechoslovakia; Sudetenland
Place the following nations in the proper chronological order in which they fell to Germany: Belgium, Denmark, France, Norway, Poland.
Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, France
*What lessons can one learn about appeasement and totalitarian, expansionist regimes from the events in this section?
You cannot trust people that don’t treat their people respectively.
What three forces kept the United States out of the war until late 1941?
- Isolationist sentiment
- Resentment over war debts
- A fixation on domestic rather than international concerns.
Who was one of the leading spokesmen for the isolationist America First committees?
Charles Lindbergh
What three actions did FDR take in response to Japan’s seizure of French Indochina?
- Placed an oil embargo on Japan
- Froze Japanese assets
- Placed all U.S. forces in the Far East under the command of General MacArthur.
What was the turning point of the Pacific war?
Battle of Midway
What action did several states take during World War II to conserve gasoline?
Set a speed limit of 35 mph, called it “victory speed”
*Was complete national isolation a realistic position for the United States before the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Why or why not? Is it realistic today? Why or why not?
There’s a lot of people going back to that.
What was the first military operation of World War II in which the United States took part?
Operation Torch
At their conference at Casablanca, where did FDR and Churchill agree to open another front against the Axis?
Italy
In what region of France did the landings in Operation Overlord take place?
Normandy
What battle resulted from Hitler’s last gamble to win the war in the West?
Battle of the Bulge
Who was the military commander of each of the two prongs of the Allied attack in the Pacific war?
General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz
What was the largest sea battle in history?
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
What island did American forces capture as a launching point for the final assault on Japan?
Okinawa
What two cities were the sites of the first uses of the atomic bomb in warfare?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
