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Stover Chapter 32
World War II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Great Britain and France declared war on Germany in response to Germany's invasion of | Poland |
| Germany's strategy of "lightening war" was called | blitzkrieg |
| In 1940, 338,000 Allied forces were rescued by sea from | Dunkirk |
| The Lend-Lease Act allowed the U.S. to | send weapons to the Allies |
| The tide of the war in the Pacific turned against the Japanese | Battle of Midway |
| The strategy of "island hopping" involved Allied attacks on islands that | were not very well defended |
| The Germans were defeated in the Battle of the Bulge by the Russian troops and the | Russian winter |
| What country did Japan not conquer in the Pacific during WW II? | Australia |
| The Nuremburg trials addressed what event in Germany | Holocaust |
| The head of the government after in Japan after WWII was the ___________, who was selected by the _________ | prime minister, Diet |
| The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it was the | last German offensive |
| Who led Italy during most of WWII? | Mussolini |
| Who tried to get GB and the US to invade France? | Stalin |
| Who oversaw the writing of the new Japanese constitution? | MacArthur |
| Who was the president of the U.S. when we entered WWII? | Roosevelt |
| Who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces in France? | Eisenhower |
| Who masterminded the Japanese naval strategy? | Yamamoto |
| Who masterminded the "island-hopping" strategy? | MacArthur |
| Who was the leader of the French government-in-exile in GB? | de Gaulle |
| The German blitzkrieg was a __________ attack that used ________________ | surprise, all their forces |
| The Soviet Union began fighting Germany when Germany | invaded them |
| The Atlantic Charter was a declaration of the | right to free trade |
| The Battle of Britain was fought in the British | skies |
| The Battle of Midway marked the beginning of the Allied __________ in the Pacific | offense |
| Name three countries partly or completely controlled by the Axis when the U.S. entered the war | Soviet Union, Poland, France |
| Name a city that was not bombed to smitherings during WWII | Rome |
| What was the "Final Solution" for Hitler | genocide |
| Who made the final decision to drop the atomic bomb? | Truman |
| Commander of Allied land forces in the Pacific | MacArthur |
| Commander of British forces in North Africa | Montgomery |
| Which general was known as "Desert Fox?" | Rommel |
| Who ordered the invasion of Finland? | Stalin |
| What Japanese admiral said the U.S. Pacific fleet had to be destroyed? | Yamamoto |
| Who was the prime minister of Great Britain | Churchill |
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