Module 28 Test
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| who are the axis powers? | -Germany
-italy
-japan
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| attack on Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese | Mukden Incident
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| the slaughter of European civilians, specifically Jews, by the Nazis | holocaust
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| meeting where the Allies agreed to the establishment of a United Nations organization after the war | Yalta Conference
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| Nazi plan for the extermination of the jews | Final solution
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| policy that initially kept the U.S. from becoming involved in the war against Germany | isolationism
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| Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions against U.S. warships | kamikaze
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| meeting where Truman demanded free elections throughout Eastern Europe | Potsdam conference
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| german term for german air raids | blitz
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| meeting where Britain and France agreed to allow the Nazis to have Czechoslovakia as long as they respected the borders | munich conference
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| unoccupied France, governed by authoritarian regime under German control | Vichy France
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| the german air force | Luftwaffe
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| promised a common front against communism | Anti-Comintern Pact
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| meeting of the big three to discuss the final attack on Germany | Tehran Conference
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| policy that sought peace and stability by satisfying the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers | appeasement
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| history's greatest naval invasion on Normany Beach | D-Day
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| special strike forces for carrying out Nazi final solution | Einsatzgruppen
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| who are the allied powers? | -Great Britain
-US
-Soviet Union
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| gave Hitler the freedom to attack Poland | Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
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| period of political tension following world war II | Cold War
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| head of the SS's security service and was given the task of administering the final solution | Reinhard Heydrich
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| British prime minister | Neville Chamberlain
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| What area is northwestern Czechoslovakia did Hitler demand? | Sudentenland
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| Hitler's blitzkrieg or "lightning war" was-- | a form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks
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| Two days after Hitler's invasion of Slovakia, what two countries declared war on Germany? | france
Britain
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| At the Yalta Conference, the allies agreed to-- | The establishment of a United Nations organization after the war
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| The battle of Stalingrad was a crushing defeat for Germany because- | when the Germans were doing well, the Soviet Union trapped them and bombarded them during their harsh winter. This caused German to surrender to the Soviets
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| Heroic efforts by the British Royal Navy and civilians in private boats managed to evacuate 338,000 allied troops at-- | Dunkirk
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| What happened on December 7, 1941? | Japan surprised attack the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor
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| In order to address labor shortages during the war, Japan | Brought in Korean and Chinese laborers
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| At the Tehran Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill agreed to-- | a partition of postwar Germany
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| At the Potsdam Conference, Truman demanded what? | Free elections throughout Eastern Europe
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| What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? | The battle of Midway on June 4, 1942
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| In what way were Japanese Americans treated differently than German Americans and Italian Americans? | Japanese Americans were taken from their homes to internment camps during the war. German Americans faced harassment from the government because of their ethnicity
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| What significant military action occurred at Midway Island in 1942? | while Japan was trying to attack the U.S., the U.S. knew about the plan and ended up destroying Japanese aircraft
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| What did the British develop to prepare for German air attack? | defensive measures
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| What factors caused president Truman to order the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan? | -wanted to end the war
-thought the atomic bombs would show superiority of U.S. military
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| How did World War II affect the world balance of power? | Different nations were allowed to rise. This was because of Europes decline after the war
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| What nations emerged from the conflict as world powers? | -U.S
-Soviet Union
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