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Chapter 27 Unit test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Axis Powers (3 countries) | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Date of D-Day | June 6th, 1944 |
| Date of Pearl Harbor bombing | December 7th, 1941 |
| Know the members of the Big Three | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. |
| Lend- Lease Act | President could supply war materials to great Britain on credit. |
| Appeasement | Giving into Hitler's demands in hopes he would stop. |
| Nazi ideology | The Germans were a superior race all others are inferior. |
| Kamikaze pilots | Japanese Suicide Pilots |
| Final Solution | The elimination of the entire Jewish population. |
| Flange / Who was the leader of this group? | Name for the Spanish Fascist Party/ Franco |
| Reason that America entered WWII | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Soft Underbelly of the Axis | Italy and Balkans |
| New Order | Hitler's plan to politically and economically dominant Europe and rule it from berlin. |
| Douglas MacArthur | American General who fought in the Pacific. |
| Name of operation that was launched to free Paris from German control. / who led this effort? | Operation overlord/Dewitt Eisenhower |
| Phony war | The time in Western Europe when little activity went on in WWII. |
| Why the Battle of Midway was a turning point in WWII | Put the Japanese on the defensive |
| Result of the Munich Conference | Hitler was given the Sudetenland in hopes he would not invade Czech. |
| The U.S. President who had to make the decision to drop the atomic bomb in WWII | Harry Truman |
| The 2 cities on which the atomic bomb was dropped | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Where the event took place that touched off WWII | Poland |
| Desert Fox | Erwin Rommel |
| 2 groups who were targeted by Hitler, in addition to the Jews | The Homosexuals and The Gypsies |