world war two

Question 1

nonagression pact

Answer 1

-lasts a decade
- hitler secretly promises land/splits poland with stalin

Question 2

blitzkrieg

Answer 2

‘lightening war’
-intense mobilization
suprise attack, overwhelm
[worked in poland!!]

Question 3

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 3

[france]rlly wnated to reconquer france and defend themselves from brits

Question 4

Winston Churchill

Answer 4

big important white dude- faught against hitler FIRST

Question 5

maginot line

Answer 5

fortifications along france that GR made- but didnt do anything [sitzkrieg]

Question 6

battle of britain

Answer 6

proof hitler could be beat- brits had the lower hand yet made hitler stop

Question 7

Erwin Rommel

Answer 7

german commander whom reinforced italians

Question 8

atlantic charter

Answer 8

secret joint declaration of plans after war; held free nations and choice of gov- serced as allies peace plan at the end

Question 9

Isoroku Yamamoto

Answer 9

admiral/naval strategist; made the call for PH

Question 10

pearl harbor

Answer 10

a ‘dagger pointed at JP’s throat’ - w/in two hours, a bunch of fleets destroyed - 2000 killed

Question 11

battle of midway

Answer 11

next target after PH, code was broken before it happened, and destroyed fleets before they even got in the air. tUrNeD thE tiDe

Question 12

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 12

(allied land force) island hopping, battle of godalcanal

Question 13

battle of guadalcanal

Answer 13

after learning japs were making an air base there, macarthur had ppl fight for six months for guadalcanal.

Question 14

aryan

Answer 14

ze germanic peoples

Question 15

kristallnacht [night of the broken glass]

Answer 15

kid shoots german diplomat, nazis get angy and attack jewish stores

Question 16

ghetto

Answer 16

seggregated/isolatic jewish areas

Question 17

final solution

Answer 17

gas chambers & genocide; a quicker way to kill

Question 18

genocide

Answer 18

systematic killing of a group

Question 19

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 19

(america) great w. ppl, led operation torch

Question 20

battle of stalingrad

Answer 20

named after stalin & being an industrial center, it began with bomb raids. stalin put a lot of resource to defend it with a counterattack. it worked, & hitler surrendered

Question 21

d-day

Answer 21

normandy; allied invasion that held the beachheads. eventually this would free france, belgium, & luxembourg.

Question 22

battle of the bulge

Answer 22

german tanks break throughallied lines near ardennes.

Question 23

kumikaze

Answer 23

jap suicide pilots. surrender or dont come home bro.

Question 24

demilitarization

Answer 24

disband armed forces to prevent revolt

Question 25

democratization

Answer 25

democraticification of japan- would give then a brit-like gov.

Question 26

operation torch

Answer 26

allied force prevents invasion of morocco/algeria by germany/rommel

Question 27

invasion of italy

Answer 27

roosevelt & chirchil ignore stalin to attack italy. pulls mussolini out of power, italy surrenders but germany pulls some strings to put him back. as soon as GR left, he was thrown off again and killed. k.o.