Mr. Stickler's Liberty Christian US HIST "WW II" Test Flashcards 2022
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| show | This term means "an aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual".
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| show | Vladimir Lenin.
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| show | This legislation made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war.
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| What does the term "internationalism" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | 1.) Italy; 2.) USSR; 3.) Germany.
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| show | The Japanese invasion of China caused this.
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| show | 1.) Unhappiness with Treaty of Versailles; 2.) Worldwide economic depression.
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| show | This term refers to the incident in which Britain and France gave in to Adolph Hitler's demands at the Munich Conference.
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| What does the term "blitzkrieg" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | They believed that Hitler had few demands and that by giving in they could prevent another war.
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| Why was the decision to leave French forces behind the Maginot Line disastrous for Europe? | show 🗑
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| In what ways ways did Winston Churchill prove to be an effective leader for Britain as the war began? | show 🗑
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| What was the new type of warfare used by Germany against Poland? Explain the technique. | show 🗑
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| What was "kristallnacht"? | show 🗑
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| What does the term "Gestapo" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | Required them to live in ghettos, deprived them of citizenship & their right to vote, identified them in passports and through yellow stars as Jewish, & committed violence against them during Kristallnacht.
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| What was the purpose of the Wannsee Conference? | show 🗑
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| What early efforts did Roosevelt make to help the British? | show 🗑
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| show | This was an imaginary line dividing the Atlantic Ocean to justify patrolling for German submarines that were disrupting British shipping.
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| show | The United States did not expect Japan to attack a target at such a distance. It also failed to correctly interpret military information.
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| show | 1.) Said that he would "put Germans back to work"; 2.) Told Germans that the Nazi flag was colored with the "blood of martyrs", referring to German soldiers who had died during WWI; 3.) Rigged political elections; 4.) Committed terrorist acts.
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| show | 1.) Made sure he was elected to a political office; 2.) Ordered the German parliament building bombed; 3.) Blamed Communist party members for the bombing; 4.) Had all Communists arrested & put into concentration camps.
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| show | He did this because the nation was going through an economic depression and he knew that his message of putting them back to work would resonate with them; there were more lower class than upper class Germans.
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| show | 52 days.
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| show | They agreed to step up the bombing of Germany.
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| What was the Pas-de-Calais? | show 🗑
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| What was the term that was used for advancing to Japan by moving from island to island in the Pacific Ocean? | show 🗑
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| show | Roosevelt chose General Eisenhower for this.
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| After several delays, when did the D-Day Invasion finally start? | show 🗑
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| How many paratroopers were dropped inland, east and west of the beaches, during the D-Day Invasion? | show 🗑
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| show | He became the British Prime Minister in June, 1940. He replaced Neville Chamberlain.
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| Who was Benito Mussolini? | show 🗑
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| show | He founded the Communist Party after the Russian Revolution.
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| Who was Joseph Stalin? | show 🗑
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| show | By allowing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make loans to companies who wanted to convert their factories to war production.
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| What role did the Office of War Mobilization (OWM) play in the war production effort? | show 🗑
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| show | They were placed in segregated units, with segregated barracks, mess halls, latrines (bathrooms), and recreational facilities. They were often assigned to non-combat duties such as construction & supply units.
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| What does the term "Selective Service Committee" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | This was the name of the first African American aviators (pilots) in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), which was the precursor to the U.S. Air Force. This group achieved considerable distinction during WWII.
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| What was the Tydings Amendment? | show 🗑
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| Who were the WAACS, WAVES, WASPs, and SPARS collectively? | show 🗑
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| What does the term "Rosie the Riveter" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| What was the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters? | show 🗑
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| show | This executive order provided for "the full and equitable participation of all workers in defense industries, without discrimination of race, creed, color, or national origin".
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| What is the Fair Employment Practices Committee? | show 🗑
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| show | A series of race - related riots that took place in 1943 centered in Los Angeles in which military personnel attacked Latinos. White servicemen viewed the clothing worn by "pachucos" as unpatriotic & extravagent during a period of wartime frugality.
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| What does the term "pachucos" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| What does the term "nisei" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | These were places where Japanese "nisei" and "issei" were forced to live as a result of the declaration of the Japanese as an "enemy race" in 1942. Detainees were forced to live in them for the duration of the war.
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| show | This was the executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt the ordered the War Department to create military areas, which became Japanese Internment Camps.
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| What does the term "issei" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | Wyoming, Idaho, California, Colorado, and Utah.
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| What was the Supreme Court case "Korematsu vs. United States" related to? | show 🗑
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| show | This set of Supreme Court cases was dismissed after the War Department declared that there was no longer a "military necissity" for continuing the practice of Japanese Internment in late 1944.
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| show | This was the name of the government agency charged with ensuring the production of war materials during World War II.
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| Why did the U.S. government start selling Series E Bonds in 1942? | show 🗑
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| show | This term refers to the German military.
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| What does the term "fortress Europe" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| What was the "Tehran Conference"? | show 🗑
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| What was "Operation Overlord"? | show 🗑
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| What does the term "D-Day" mean/refer to? | show 🗑
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| What was the Battle of the Bulge? | show 🗑
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| show | These were camps were Jews, Gypsies, political prisoners, & others deemed "undesirable" by the Nazi government were forced to live. Most were "death camps" whose goal was the mass execution of Jews.
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| show | The first liberation of these camps occured in 1945 by Russian troops.
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| show | Vice President Harry S. Truman became president after President Roosevelt's death.
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| What does the term "island hopping" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | During fighting on this island, over 1,000 Japanese civilians and soldiers "jumped to their deaths from rocky cliffs rather than surrender".
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| show | This was the name given to Japanese suicide planes that were used during sea battles vs. the U.S. Navy late in World War II.
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| show | This was the name given to a group of native Navajo speakers who sent and received messages written in the Navajo language as a way to encrypt them from Axis - especially Japanese - translation.
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| show | Fighting conditions here were made more difficult due to volcanic sand that caused U.S. Marines to sink, making movement very slow.
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| What was the Manhattan Project? | show 🗑
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| Who was Robert Oppenheimer? | show 🗑
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| What occured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? | show 🗑
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| show | This event took place onboard the U.S. battleship USS Missouri in early September, 1945.
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| What does the term "Enola Gay" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| Who was Emperor Hirohito? | show 🗑
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| show | This was Germany's attempt to conquer Great Britain. It began and ended with the bombing of British cities, including London.
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| What was Operation Barbarossa? | show 🗑
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| List 3 countries that Adolf Hitler annexed/conquered before World War II officially began. | show 🗑
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| What was the result of Operation Barbarossa? | show 🗑
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| What was the result of the Battle of Britain? | show 🗑
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| What does the term "the Blitz" mean/ refer to where WWII history is concerned? | show 🗑
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| show | 1.) He paid German women for every child that they had; 2.) He made it mandatory for all German boys to attend camps and belong to the Hitler Youth to prepare them for life as soldiers.
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