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Chapter 32 Test
Chapter 32 Sections #1-5 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Joseph Stalin sign with Hitler? | Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin signed a ten-year nonaggression pact with Hitler. |
| What was the blitzkrieg and what does it mean? | The German invasion of Poland was the first test of Germany’s newest mili tary strategy—the blitzkrieg or “lightning war.” |
| What was the Maginot Line and what two borders did it station to? | They stationed their troops along the Maginot Line, a system of fortifications along France’s border with Germany. |
| Who was Charles de Gaulle and why was he so important? | After France fell, Charles de Gaulle, a French general, set up a government-in-exile in London. |
| Who was Winston Churchill and why was he so important? | Winston Churchill, the new British prime minister, had already declared that his nation would never give in. |
| What did RAF stand for and how many soldiers did it land and where did it land? | His plan was first to knock out the Royal Air Force (RAF) and then to land more than 250,000 soldiers on England’s shores. |
| Why was the Atlantic Charter so important and what people were contributed to this action? | Although the United States had not yet entered the war, Roosevelt and Churchill met secretly and issued a joint declaration called the Atlantic Charter. |
| Who was Isoroku Yamamoto and why was he so important? | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan’s greatest naval strategist, also called for an attack on the U.S. fleet in Hawaii. |
| Why was December 7, 1941 such an important day? | Early in the morning of December 7, 1941, American sailors at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii awoke to the roar of explosives. |
| Who was General Douglas MacArthur and why was he so important? | General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific, developed a plan to handle this problem. |
| Who created the island hop? | MacArthur believed that storming each island would be a long, costly effort. Instead, he wanted to “island-hop” past Japanese strongholds. |
| When did the Battle of Guadalcanal end? | In February 1943, after six months of fighting on land and at sea, the Battle of Guadalcanal finally ended. |
| Due to the fact of many soldiers loss what was the island now called? | After losing more than 24,000 of a force of 36,000 soldiers, the Japanese abandoned what they came to call “the Island of Death.” |
| Who were the Aryans and why were they so important? | They proclaimed that the Germanic peoples, or Aryans, were a “master race.” |
| What were the Nuremberg Laws and when were they passed? | The Nuremberg Laws, passed in 1935, deprived Jews of their rights to German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews. |
| When did Kristallnacht become known and what was it? | It is for this reason that the night of November 9 became known as Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass.” |
| Who were the ghettos and why were they so important? | In those cities, the Nazis herded the Jews into dismal, overcrowded ghettos, or segregated Jewish areas. |
| What was the Final Solution and how was it made and what actions were taken? | Hitler soon grew impatient waiting for Jews to die from starvation or disease. He decided to take more direct action. His plan was called the “Final Solution.” |
| What was a genocide? | It was actually a program of genocide, the systematic killing of an entire people. |
| When did the Battle of Stalingrad begin? | The Battle of Stalingrad began on August 23, 1942. |
| Who got more jobs and when did women get jobs and what kind of jobs did they get? | By 1944, between 17 and 18 million U.S. workers—many of them women—had jobs in war industries. |
| What was the D-Day and what did it begin? | The invasion began on June 6, 1944—known as D-Day. |
| How many Nazi leaders did the Nuremberg Trials charge? | In the first of these Nuremberg Trials, 22 Nazi leaders were charged with waging a war of aggression. |
| What was demilitarization and why was it so important? | Nevertheless, to ensure that peace would prevail, he began a process of demilitarization or disbanding the Japanese armed forces. |
| What was democratization and why was it so important? | MacArthur then turned his attention to democratization, the process of creating a government elected by the people. |
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