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ch. 28 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chamberlain return to Great British believing that his policy | appeasement |
| had spoke out against Chamberlain's plans. | Winston Churchill |
| these counties later came to be known as the. | Axis Powers |
| is a agreement in witch each side promises not to attack the other. | nonaggression pact |
| German forces used a new tactic in tactic in their assault on Poland | blitzkrieg |
| British and France declared war on Germany. | Allies |
| 1940 Germany sent thousands of air craft over the English Channel to attack British targets in what became known as the. | Battle of Britain |
| had been developing plans for a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor | Hideki Tojo |
| was common in the United States after World war I. | isolationism |
| was led by German general | Erwin Rommel |
| Axis power in North African was severely weakened. | Battle of El Alamein |
| led by American general | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 1 million civilians would perish in the | Siege of Leningrad |
| led a small number of American soldiers and poorly equipped | Douglas MacArthur |
| Japanese and American carriers again fought on the high sea in the | Bataan of Midway |
| swamp-and jungle-covered island in the | Battle of Guadalcanal |
| was Japanese pilots who loaded their plains | kamikazes |
| is to be forced to leave a country | deported |
| the deliberate mass execution of Jews | Final Solution |
| some Jews were forces into a | ghetto |
| other Jews were sent to labor camp called | concentration camps |
| we refer to this mass murder of Jews as the | Holocaust |
| allied forces invaded France | D-Day |
| Victory in Europe Day | V-E Day |
| Nearly 7,000 Americans died | Battle of low Jima |
| lasted nearly three months. | Battle of Okinawa |
| who had became president | Harry S Truman |
| surrendered on 15, 1945 | Hirohito |
| world war II was over | V-J day |
| came to the surface at the | Yalta Conference |
| organization proposed by the Allies the | United Nations |
| took place amid growing ill will between. | Potsdam Conference |