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Ch. 11 & 12 Review
WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| __________________ was known as the “man of steel” and led the Soviet Union for over 25 years. | Joseph Stalin |
| __________________ was known as IL Duce, the chief, and became dictator of Italy in the 1920s. | Benito Mussolini |
| _____________ was Hitler’s book that laid out the basic beliefs of Nazism. | Mein Kampf |
| ________________ was elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and established the Third Reich. | Adolf Hitler |
| _______________ became the Fascist dictator of Spain after winning a civil war in the 1930s. | Francisco Franco |
| President ____________________________ made the famous “Quarantine Speech” in which he called on peace-loving nations to isolate aggressor nations in order to stop the spread of war. | Franklin Roosevelt |
| ____________ was the first country invaded by Hitler. | |
| The _______________________ was an agreement signed by Hitler and the French and British prime ministers, allowing Hitler to take the Sudetenland if he promised to not take any more land. | Munich Pact |
| _______________________________ was the prime minister of Great Britain who approved the Munich Pact and was cheered by his people for securing peace. | Neville Chamberlain |
| A _________________________ pact was signed by Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union and Hitler of Germany in which the two sides agreed not to attack one another. | non-aggression |
| _________ is another name for the lightning war that Germany wrought on Poland. | blitzkrieg |
| ____________________ was a site of a rescue mission where 340,000 Allied troops were ferried across the English Channel to safety. | Dunkirk |
| ______________________ was a French commander who headed the Nazi puppet government in Vichy. | Henri Petain |
| _______________ was a French general who established a government -in-exile in England. | Charles De Gaulle |
| Germany’s advances were stopped in this air battle: ___________________________ | Battle of Britain |
| __________________ became the prime minister of Britain in May 1940 and declared, “We shall never surrender.” | Winston Churchill |
| _______________________ was an auxiliary branch of the military in which women served. | WAAC |
| More than 1 million of this minority group served in the military and finally saw combat in the last year of the war ____________ | African Americans |
| _________________ comprised 1/3 of the workforce in war industries but were discriminated against when it came to their pay. | Women |
| After Pearl Harbor, over 110,000 _______________________________ were put into internment camps. | Japanese-Americans |
| In the ___________________________________ , the Allies were able to find and destroy German U-boats faster than they could build them. | Battle of the Atlantic |
| ______________ was the name of the German air force. | Lutwaffe |
| The Soviets lost 1,250,000 soldiers and civilians, but after the Soviet victory in the Battle of _____________________ the Soviet army began to move steadily westward toward Germany. | Battle of Stalingrad |
| _____________________was the code name for the invasion of North Africa. | Operation Torch |
| ____________________ led Allied troops in Operation Torch and eventually became the supreme commander of European operations. | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| _________________________ was known as the Desert Fox. | Erwin Rommel |
| _______________ was a battle 40 miles outside of Rome that left 25,000 and 30,000 Axis troops dead. | Bloody Anzio |
| _______________ was the code name for D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. | Operation Overlord |
| __________________ was the general in charge of the Third Army who freed Paris. | Charles Patton |
| _____________________________ was a last ditch effort by Hitler to break the Allied line in which the Germans were defeated, and resulted in the Nazis being forced to retreat from that point on in the war. | Battle of the Bulge |
| __________ was the name given to the day the Germans surrendered. | V-E Day |
| The _________________________ stripped Jews of their civil rights and property if they tried to leave Germany. | Nuremberg Laws |
| _________________ was when Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. | Krystallnacht (Crystal Night) |
| The _____________________ refers to the systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe-more than half of whom were Jews. | Holocaust |
| ___________ was the largest death camp in Poland. | Auschwitz |
| General __________________________ pledged, “I shall return,” as he was forced to abandon the Philippines. | Douglas MacArthur |
| Colonel ____________________________ led the raids on Tokyo and 4 other Japanese cities on April 18, 1942. | James Doolittle |
| The Japanese were forced to turn back for the first time in this battle for Australia. ____________________________ | Battle of Coral Sea |
| ________________ was the supreme commander of the American naval forces. | Charles Nimitz |
| Outnumbered 4 to 1, the Americans won a surprise victory in this battle that was the turning point in the war in the Pacific. | Battle of Midway |
| _________________________ was a strategy to bypass Japanese strongholds and seize less-well-fortified islands. | island hopping |
| ____________ in the Solomon Islands was called the Island of Death by the Japanese. | Guadalcanal |
| The Japanese Navy was all but destroyed in this battle in which MacArthur retook the Philippines | Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| ___________ were suicide plane attacks. | Kamikaze |
| In the Battle for ________________ more than 6,000 marines defeated 20,700 Japanese troops and then raised the American flag in triumph. | Iwo Jima |
| ________________ became president when Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. | Harry Truman |
| ___________ was the code name for the atomic bomb program. | The Manhattan Project |
| An atomic bomb was dropped on __________________ on August 6, 1945. | Hiroshima |
| The _________________________ was international tribunal that tried Nazi war criminals. | Nuremberg Trials |
| This Japanese general and premier was sentenced to death for war crimes. | Hideki Tojo |
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