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UShist Ch 8 Review
UShist Ch 8 Test Review, Part 2
Term | Definition |
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Midway | Turning point in the Pacific |
Hiroshima | This is where the first Atomic Bomb was dropped |
Normandy | This is where D-day took place |
Manchuria | Northern China region that is rich with resources |
Maginot Line | this was the network of defenses along the French Border |
Nuremberg | Nazi leaders were tried after the war at these trials |
Yalta | Meeting site of the "Big 3" |
Poland | Hitler's attack on this country was the beginning of WWII |
Battle of Britain | This was Hitler's attempt to bomb England into submission |
Phillippines | The Bataan Death March took place here |
Okinawa and Iwo Jima | These were islands that served as bases for bombing Japan |
Pearl Harbor | This island was attacked by Japan because they felt the U.S. Navy was blocking their expansion |
Sudetenland | German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia given to Hitler as a part of the policy of appeasement. |
Dunkirk | Location on the English Channel where 340 thousand British troops were rescued after Hitler invaded Belgium and France |
Stalingrad | Turning point of the war in Europe |
Guadalcanal | First major land victory of the US against Japan |