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Chapter 28 BB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Giving in to aggressive demands in order to maintain peace. | Appeasement |
| Spoken out against Chamberlain's plans. | Winston Churchill |
| Germany, Italy and Japan joined together. | Axis Powers |
| An agreement in which each side promises not to attack the other. | Nonaggression Pact |
| German forces used a new tactic in their assault on Poland. | Blitzkrieg |
| Britain and France declared war on Germany. They then became known as __. | Allies |
| German sent thousands of aircraft over the English Channel to attack British targets. | Battle of Britain |
| Had been developing plans for a surprise attack on the American navel base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. | Hideki Tojo |
| The desire to avoid involvement in the affairs of other nations. | Isolationism |
| Led Afrika Korps. | Erwin Rommel |
| Axis power in North Africa was severely weakened. | Battle of El Alamein |
| Led the combined American and British force landed in North Africa. | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 1 million civilians perished. | Siege of Leningrad |
| One of the most brutal war. | Battle of Stalingrad |
| Led a small number of American soldiers and poorly equipped Filipino troops in a doomed defense. | Douglas MacArthur |
| Tropical heat, lack of food and water, and brutal violence from their captors killed 600 American and up to 10,000 Filipino prisoners. | Bataan Death March |
| Japanese and American carriers again fought on the high seas. | Battle of Midway |
| American forces fought Japanese troops on the swamp- and jungle-covered island. | Battle of Guadalcanal |
| Japanese pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and deliberately crashed into Allied ships, sacrificing their own life process. | Kamikazes |
| To be forced to leave the country. | Deported |
| The deliberate mass of execution of Jews. | Final Solution |
| A confined area within a city. | Ghetto |
| Meant to hold the people Hitler called enemies of the state. | Concentration Camps |
| The mass murder of Jews. | Holocaust |
| Allied forced invaded France. | D-Day |
| Victory in Europe Day. | V-E Day |
| Nearly 7,000 Americans died to capture the island of Iwo Jima. | Battle of Iwo Jima |
| Lasted nearly 3 months, claimed 12,000 American lives. | Battle of Okinawa |
| Become president when Franklin Roosevelt died. | Harry S. Truman |
| Surrendered on August 15, 1945. | Hirohito |
| August 15, 1945. World War 2 is finally over. | V-J Day |
| Held in Soviet territory. | Yalta Conference |
| Stalin agreed to join a new world organization proposed by the Allied- The United Nations. | United Nations |
| Took place and amid growing ill will between the Soviet Union and the other Allies. | Potsdam Conference |
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