World War Two

Question 1

Kamikaze

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“Divine Wind” this tactic signaled the belief in nationalism and the emperor as being more important than the individual. Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships

Question 2

Appeasement

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Allied policy toward Germany prior to September of 1939? It was exemplified by the Munich Conference

Question 3

Maginot Line

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Line of defense built by France to protect against German invasion. Stretched from Belgium to Switerland

Question 4

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

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August 13, 1939, pact that said that the Germans and Soviets would not fight each other/invade each other for 10 years and divide Poland

Question 5

Anschluss

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Annexation of Austria into Nazi Germans; broke Treaty of Versailles

Question 6

Blitzkrieg

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“Lighting War”, types of fast moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939. This act caused Britain and France to declare war.

Question 7

Sitzkreig

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“Sitting War” or “Phony War” 7 months when war was declared but there was no action. Hitler used this time to prepared for his attacks.

Question 8

Dunkrik

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British and some French forces escaped to England, saving over 300k allied troops

Question 9

D-Day

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June 6, 1944, Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II

Question 10

Battle of Stalingrad

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Unsuccessful German attacks on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union. Each side sustained hundreds of thousands of casualties; Germany’s defeat marked turning point in the war

Question 11

Battle of the Bulge

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German counterattack that pushed the Allies back into Belgium. last stand of Hilter’s armies. Eventually the Allies returned to Germany, leading to surrender on May, 7, 1945

Question 12

Concentration camps

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Prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoner, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or woken to death, or killed immediately

Question 13

Kristallnacht

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Nazi organized riot against the Jews on November 9, 1938. It was the first overt violent act by the Nazi Government against Jews

Question 14

Final Solution

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Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

Question 15

11-12 million

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Approximately how many individuals were killed in the Holocaust in Europe in the early 1940s?

Question 16

Israel

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1948, this nation was formed in part as a result of the Holocaust

Question 17

Embargo

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An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. The US had an embargo on steel and oil to Japan that in part led Japan to decide to bomb Pearl Harbor

Question 18

Pearl Harbor

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Base in Hawaii that was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter the war

Question 19

Hiroshima

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August 6, 1945, Tibbetts flew the Enola Gay to this location to drop the First A-Bomb. Truman hoped this would force a Japanese surrender and avoid a costly land invasion

Question 20

Emperor Hirohito

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Emperor of Japan during WWII his people viewed him as a God. He announced the Japanese surrender over the radio August 15,1945

Question 21

Homefront War Effort WWII

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Civilians did their part participating in Scrap metal drives, Rationing, Working in war industries, planting victory gardens, buying war bonds

Question 22

Vichy France

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Regime of Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain in southeastern France
-formed while Germany occupied the north
It was capitulatory and willingly placed Jews in hand of the Nazis

Question 23

Manhattan Project

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A secret U.S project for the construction of the atomic bomb

Question 24

Nuremberg Trials

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A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violation of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity

Question 25

Cold War

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A conflict that was between the US and Soviet Uniton following WWII. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years

Question 26

Battle of Britain

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An aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe, which carrried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance. This is also called the Blitz

Question 27

Dresden

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German city ferociously firebombed by the Allies from February 13 to 15, 1945. It became a symbol of Total War

Question 28

Operation Mincemeat

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Elaborate plan to mislead the Axis powers and allow for the invasion of Sicily. It involved creating an entire identity Major William Martin, Royal Marines and planting “secret documents” on a corpse and allowing it to wash up on shore

Question 29

Enigma Machine

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German code machine broken by the Allies and used to predict what the Germans would od

Question 30

Navajo Code Talkers WWII

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Navajo Indians who worked as a secret group to send messages in the Navajo language . Never broken and only released in 1969

Question 31

Island Hopping Campaign

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US Strategy to reach mainland Japan by capturing key islands

Question 32

Nanking Massacre

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Happened in the Chinese city of Nanking. The Japanese troops taking over killed 300,00 people in 6 weeks. Experts estimate that 20,00 women and girls were raped. Also called the Rape of Nanking

Question 33

Battle of El Alamein

Answer 33

This was the turning point of the seesawing back and forth war in Africa. Its participants were Germany and its allied Italy against Britain. Its importance was that it allowed all allies to have the upper hand against Mussolini in the war.