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Chapter 11 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A person who rules a nation by force. | Dictator |
| Attempting to gain control through dictatorial control. | Totalitarian |
| Discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group. | Anti-Semitism |
| Giving in to the demands to others to keep peace. | Appeasement |
| Fast, suddenl attack by massed forces. | Blitzkrieg |
| Giving up military weapons. | Disarmament |
| Making scarce items available to people for a limited time. | Ration |
| Protective measures taken by civilians in case of attack. | Civil defense |
| Camp where Japanese Americans were kept during WWII. | Internment camp |
| Military blockade. | Siege |
| Attempt to kill an entire population. | Genocide |
| The name given to a mass slaughter of Jews by the Nazis during WWII. | Holocaust |
| Large prison camp used to hold people for political reasons. | Concentration camp |
| A strategy used during WWII where Hitler attacked and captured certain key islands and used them as bases from which to attack others. | Island hopping |
| A Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target. | Kamikaze |
| The first country Benito Mussolini invaded. | Ethiopia |
| What did Germany become when Hitler established a single party that suppressed opposition? | Totalitarian state |
| The county that invaded Manchuria in the 1930's. | Japan |
| How was the Sudetenland turned over to Germany? | Munich Confeence |
| Which agreement freed Hitler to use force against Poland without fear of Soviet intervention? | Nonaggression Pact |
| Allied commander in the Philippines. | Douglas MacArthur |
| The battle that destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers. | Battle of Midway |
| The battle where American ships destroyed most of the Japanese fleet. | Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| The site where the US dropped the first atomic bomb. | Hiroshima, Japan |
| The location that Nazi war criminals were tried. | Nuremberg |
| The victory that prevented the Germans from capturing the Suez Canal. | El Alamein |
| The city that the Germans sieges for 900 days. | Leningrad |
| The German defeat that marked a major turning point in the war. | Stalingrad |
| The day that Dwight D. Eisenhower landed his Allied troops on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944. | D-Day |
| Great Britain's prime minister | Winston Churchill |
| America First Committee | Isolationists |
| December 7, 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| After which invasion did France and Great Britain declare war on Germany? | Invasion of Poland |
| After the collapse of which area did allied troops retreat to the port of Dunkirk? | Belgium |
| After the fall of France, what stood in the way of Hitler's domination of Western Europe? | Great Britain |
| Frustrated by his failure in Great Britain, where did Hitler launch an attack? | Soviet Union |
| American neutrality ended how? | After an attack on the US |
| Under which act did the US begin raising an army? | Selective Service Act |
| The Revenue Act of 1942 required what from most Americans? | Income tax |
| The first African American General in the US Air Force | Benjamin Davis Jr. |
| The case that the Supreme Court upheld to provide relocation of Japanese Americans. | Kofemitsu vs. US |
| Served in the WAC and in the WAVES. | Women |
| Rationing caused people to do this. | Plant victory gardens |
| The name of a unit of African American pilots. | Tuskegee Airmen |
| How did a group of Navajo soldiers use a code based on their language? | To send military messages about battle plans |
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