Chapter 22 Flashcards

1
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Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

A

Joseph Stalin

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2
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“Lightning war”

A

Blitzkrieg

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3
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The famous German “desert fox”

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Erwin Rommel

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4
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June 6, 1944

A

D-day

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5
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Dictator of Fascist Italy

A

Benito Mussolini

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6
Q

Commander of all American Forces in the Far East

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Douglas MacArthur

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7
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Dictator of Nazi Germany

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Adolph Hitler

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8
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Attempt to satisfy a dictator by giving in to his demands

A

Appeasement

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9
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An agreement between Russia and Germany allowing Russia to take some of the Baltic property in exchange for Germany being allows to take part of Poland

A

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

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10
Q

Military head of Japan

A

Hideki Togo

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11
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The battle that was the bloodiest single campaign in the Pacific

A

Okinawa

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12
Q

Nationalistic, totalitarian mass movement

A

Fascism

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13
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Policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other countries

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Isolation

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14
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British prime minister

A

Winston Churchill

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15
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Hitler’s book that proposed to eliminate all Jews, end democracy in Germany, and create a new German order.

A

Mein Kampf

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16
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Placement of people in detention camps

A

Internment

17
Q

British champion of appeasement

A

Neville Chamberlin

18
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Germany army

19
Q

Republican candidate for president in 1940

A

Wendell Wilkie

20
Q

Act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished

A

Lend-lease act

21
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Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their “common principles “ and goals on the war effort?

A

Atlantic Charter

22
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Winter battle did the Nazis counterattack against the Allied invasion of Europe, almost stopping the advance into Germany

A

Battle of the Bulge

23
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Allied strategy for the defeat of Japan

A

Island Hopping

24
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Japanese suicide pilot

25
Warfare that was mainly air combat over England
Battle of Britain
26
British commander helped to defeat the Germans in North Africa
Bernard Montgomery
27
Section of northern France did the Allied Expeditionary Force land in 1944
Normandy
28
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
29
US president during the most of World War II
Franklin Roosevelt
30
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
31
Country German soldiers invaded, beginning WWII
Poland
32
Cities in Japan bombed by United States
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
33
Bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy
Atomic bomb
34
Government limitations on the purchase of scarce goods.
Rationing
35
Massacre of millions of Jews and other people that the Nazis considered lesser people
Holocaust
36
The Union of Austria and Germany
Anschluss