Unit 23 Flashcards
What was the series of defensive forts that France had built along its border with Germany?
Maginot Line
From what French coastal city did England evacuate its troops?
Dunkirk
What was the Battle of Britain?
Hitler’s fierce Air Force attack on Great Britain in the summer of 1940
Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1940?
Wendell Willkie
What was a proposition for the U.S. to lend or lease military supplies to Britain and any other country resisting Hitler?
The Lend-Lease program
What was the document issued from a meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt that stated shared principles?
The Atlantic Charter
What type of treaty was signed by Japan and the Soviet Union in April of 1941?
A non-aggression treaty
On what day was Pearl Harbor attacked?
December 7, 1941
What did General Douglas MacArthur say when he left the Philippines?
“I shall return”
What two naval battles stopped the Japanese advance in the Pacific?
The battle in the Coral Sea and the battle at Midway Island
What island in the Solomon Islands took six months for the Americans to clear?
Guadalcanal
Where did the Allies attack after taking Africa?
Sicily and Italy
Where did Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet for the first time?
Tehran, Iran
What is the name given to the massive Allied invasion of northern France at Normandy?
D-Day
Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1944?
Thomas Dewey
What was the largest naval battle of the war?
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
What was the breakthrough of German forces in Belgium in December of 1944?
The Battle of the Bulge
Where did Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet in February of 1945?
Yalta on the Crimean Sea
What concessions were given to Stalin in their meeting in 1945?
The Soviets were given land from Japan and China and a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe
What was the name given to May 8, the end of the war in Europe?
V-E Day
What was discovered as the Allies took control of Germany?
The horrors of the Nazi concentration camps (the Holocaust)
What island only 750 miles from Japan was taken at a cost of 7,000 American lives?
Iwo Jima
What was the name of the American project to develop an atomic bomb?
The Manhattan Project
What two cities in Japan were hit by atomic bombs?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
