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Ch 16 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| non aggression pact | Germany and Soviet Union signed a treaty to not attack each other and they plotted to divide Poland between them |
| September 1, 1939 | Hitler invades Poland and annexes the western part for Germany |
| September 3 | Britain and France declare war on Germany |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning War |
| The Phony War | The Allies waited on the border of France and Germany to fight but nothing happened |
| Rescue At Dunkirk (A Heroic Rescue) | In May 1940, German forces trapped allied forces on the coast of Lille. Great Britain ships across the english channel to rescue troops. |
| June 22, 1940 | French leaders surrendered first |
| Winston Churchill | Prime minister of Great Britain |
| RAF | Royal Air Force (Great Britain) |
| Luftwaffes | Germany's Air Force |
| Radar | Used to track planes used by the RAF |
| Italy's Stance | Mussolini and Hitler were allies, but Italy remained neutral at the beginning of the war |
| Erwin Rommel | The desert fox, commander of Hitler's crack German tank force |
| Dunkirk | French port city near the Belgian border from where British ships evacuated trapped soldiers from in 1940 |
| Charles de Gaulle | French general who organized the Free French military forces to fight the Nazis |
| December 7, 1941 | Japan bombed Pearl Harbor |
| Bataan Death March | a forced march of 50 miles up the peninsula |
| Battle of Midway | turned the tide of the war in the pacific |
| August 7, 1942 | Battle of Guadalcanal, when the US Marines with Australian support landed on the islands, the battle lasted 6 months |
| Americans Belief | They should not get involved in the war |
| The Lend Lease Act (March 1941) | The Allies could buy America arms, pay cash, and come to pick the up on their own ships |
| Nazis | Led by Adolf Hitler |
| November 9, 1938 | The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) |
| October 23, 1942 | British led the battle of El Alamein |
| August 23, 1942 | German army seth their sights on the city of Stalingrad, and bombed it heavily. Hitler refused to surrender of retreat and many of the troops were starved and frost bitten |
| June 6, 1944 | The D-Day invasion, largest land and sea invasion of all time |
| Bombing Japan | Attacking Japan's homeland would likely cost Americans half a million lives, Truman could stop the war quickly and drop the bomb or not have keep fighting. |
| August 6 | US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
| August 9 | US dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, the fallout from the explosions killed many more people |
| September 2 | Japan surrendered |
| Why did the US drop the bombs on Japan? | The US wanted to end the war quickly without a long fight on land. They hoped the bombs would end the war and Japan would surrender immediately. |
| What was it like after the bombs? | The cities were completely destroyed. Many people died instantly, and others later got sick from the radiation left behind. |
| Did it end the war? | Yes, Japan surrendered a few days after the second bomb was dropped. This officially stopped all the fighting of WW2. |
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