WStudiesChpt20TestReview
World Studies Chapter 20 Stest Review
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- Anschluss
- The unification of Austria and Germany
- Phillipines, Dutch East Indies, French Indo-China
- Areas lost to Japanese expansion during WWII
- El Alamein
- Site of the turning point in the north African campaign
- Axis Powers
- Germany, Austria, Italy
- Dunkirk
- Place where hundreds of thousands of British troops were rescued off the beaches of France to be saved from the German.
- U.S.S. Arizona
- This battleship still lays on the floor of Pearl Harbor and has a memorial over the top of it's deck.
- Africa campaign
- The German goal was to control the Suez Canal
- Bernard Montgomery
- The leader of the British forces in Africa during the Africa campain
- Vichy
- The puppet government set up in southern France by Germany
- Raw materials, grains, crops and a hatred for communism
- Reasons Germany invaded the Soviet Union
- Maginot Line
- This was an area in France that was heavily fortified along the French and German border.
- League of Nations
- An organization of 60 countries that joined to try to prevent a Second World War in Europe. The United States didn't join.
- D-Day
- Invasion of Normandy. The major offensive by the allies in northern Europe that was successful in pushing back the Germans and establishing an allied front in Europe
- U.S.S. Missouri
- The name of the ship where the Japanese surrendered
- Poland
- Location of most of the German concentration camps
- Reasons Germany wanted to conquer Stalingrad
- It was named after a Soviet leader and defeat would damage Soviet morale and it was a vital city to north-south transportaion to the Black Sea.
- May 8, 1945
- The ending date of the war in Europe
- Scorched earth tactics
- The act of burning everything the Soviets left behind as they retreated
- December 7, 1941
- The day that Pearl Harbor was bombed
- Chamberlain
- Leader of Britain who is criticized for his "soft" stand agains Hitler in the 1930's
- Nazi-Soviet pact
- Germany, Poland, Soviet Union
- Atlantic Charter
- Planned for the final destruction of Germany, promoted freedom of trade and established that all people have a right to choose their own government.
- Winston Churchill
- The prime minister of Britain during the war in the 1940's. He said "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
- Comintern
- Japan, Italy, Germany
- Blitzkrieg
- Lightening war
- Nagasaki
- The last city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it
- Racial cousins
- Group of people who the Germans were going to reeducate and make them productive citizens in the third Reich
- Nurenberg trials
- Name of the war crimes trials for the Nazis
- Dachau
- First nazi concentration camp
- Berlin
- This German city was split into four zones after WWII
- Franklin Roosevelt
- The president of the United States during WWII
- Truman
- The president who decided to drop the atomic bomb
- 50 million
- The approximate number of people who died as a result of WWII
- Hiroshima
- The first city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it
- Czechoslovakia
- Country that Hitler invaded to take over the Sudentenland
- Embargo
- A ban on the sale of vital raw materials
- September 1, 1939
- The date of the German invasion of Poland
- Island Hopping
- Allies plan to regain control of the Pacific
- MacArthur
- The general who was instrumental in helping the U.S. regain the Philippines
- Allies
- U.S., France and Britain
- Chaing-Kai-Shek
- Chinese nationalist leader that was backed by the U.S. in his fight against communism
- Rhineland
- Hitler militarized the Rhineland because he was afraid of a French invasion if he didn't have troops there. He wanted the area reunited with Germany and because the area had been demiliterized by the Treaty of Versailles.
- September 3, 1939
- The date of the beginning of World War II
- Sudentenland
- Where Hitler claimed he was practicing self-determination by joing some 3 million Germans to the German empire.
- mandate system
- Helping countries get ready for independence
- Kamikazes
- Group that gave up their lives to try to sink allied ships by crashing into them with their planes
- Pincers Strategy
- The strategy the allies used to win control of Northern Africa
- The Battle of the Bulge
- The battle where the Germans made their last major offenssive against the allies in northern Europe
- Gold, Sword and Juneau
- Beaches invaded during D-Day
- Leningrad
- Site of one million deaths from starvation and the elements at the hands of the Germans
- Rome-Berlin-Axis
- Alliance made between Hitler and Mussolini
- Pearl Harbor
- When this site was attacked FDR stated that it was "a date that would live in infamy"
- Final Solution
- German plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe