Chapter 32 World War II
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- A camp where enemies of the government and other people are held against their will, often under brutal conditions is called a _______________________.
- concentration camp
- The breaking down of armed forces is called ___________________.
- demilitarization
- An agreement that says countries will not attack or invade one another is called a ______________ pact.
- nonagression
- Warfare in which surprise air attacks are followed by massive attacks on land is called a ____________.
- blitzkrieg
- The leader of the French government-in-exile was _______________.
- Charles de Gaulle
- Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity, held in Nuremberg, Germany were called the _________________________.
- Nuremburg Trials
- The leader of Great Britain during World War II was _________________.
- Winston Churchill
- Japanese suicide pilots were also called _________________.
- kamikaze
- The battle of British and German air forces fought over Britain during 1940-1941 was called the __________of ____________.
- Battle of Britain
- The final large-scale attack by German troops that was forced back by the Allies was called the __________________.
- Battle of the Bulge
- The declaration of principles issued by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1941 was called the ____________________.
- Atlantic Charter
- The Japanese admiral who decided that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed was __________________.
- Isoroku Yamamoto
- The huge allied invasion mounted to retake France from the Germans was called _______________.
- D-Day
- The Navy Base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese was __________________.
- Pearl Harbor
- The sea and air battle in which American forces defeated Japanese forces near Midway Island in the Pacific was called the ___________of _____________.
- Battle of Midway
- The U.S. general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific was _____________.
- Douglas MacArthur
- Germanic peoples were called ___________.
- Aryans
- A mass killing of civilians, especially Jews during World War II was called the __________________.
- Holocaust
- The "Night of broken glass," when Nazies attacked Jews throughout Germany was called _________________.
- Kristallnacht
- Neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live in were called _________.
- ghettos
- Hitler's plan to kill as many Jews as possible was called the _________________.
- Final Solution
- The systematic killing of an entire group of people is called ________.
- genocide
- The British general who drove the Germans out of Egypt was ________________.
- Bernard Montgomery
- The American general who helped drive the Germans out of Africa was _________________________.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Traveling with or for the sake of protection is called ____________.
- escorting
- The number of ships operating together under one command is called a _________.
- fleet
- When things are done according to a plan or system it is said to be _______________________.
- systematic
- Something that is important or essential to a plan of action is said to be _______________.
- strategic
- Spirit is also called ____________.
- morale
- An attack made in response to an enemy's attack is called a _____________.
- counterattack