World War II
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- What battle was a major turning point in the North African campaign?
- El Alamein
- What were three major battles fought in the Pacific?
- Midway, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal
- The Nazi "Final Solution" was a systematic, industrialized attempt to do what?
- eliminate Jews and other "undesirables" from Europe
- When Franklin D. Roosevelt made the statement "a date that will live in infamy" he was referring to?
- bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
- Navajo Marines in WWII used ????? as an unbreakable code.
- their language
- What group did NOT serve in segregated units in the American military during WWII?
- Mexican Americans
- What did Japan do following the attack on Pearl Harbor?
- invaded the Philippines and Indonesia
- Japanese Americans served in a Nisei Regiment that did what?
- won many medals and awards
- As Japan invaded Manchuria and China, the US?
- placed a ban on exports of oil and steel to Japan
- The Tuskegee airmen were an all ????? unit that fought in WWII?
- African American unit
- What effect did the Holocaust have on the Middle East?
- forced the movement of Jews from Europe to the Middle East, setting up the Jewish state of Israel
- The Geneva Convention was an international pact to do what?
- treat prisoners humanely and set rules for war
- What was the term used to describe the killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazis?
- Holocaust
- How did the Battle of Midway change the momentum of the Pacific Theater?
- changed the momentum of Japan marching across the Pacific; turning point in the war
- What were the 2 events that turned America from neutrality to actively supporting Allied cause?
- fall of France, bombing of Great Britain
- The deliberate and systematic extermination of a racial, national, or religious group is referred to as?
- genocide
- Lend-Lease Act allowed the US to?
- supply weapons to Great Britain and other Allies
- What was the Allied strategy to win in the Pacific?
- island hopping
- What triggered the actual beginning of WWII?
- joint invasion of Poland by Soviet Union
- After the last stand at Corregidor in the Philippines, US soldiers were brutalized during what?
- Bataan Death March
- What did the American victory at Okinawa do?
- paved the way for the invasion of Japan
- Where did one major Russian victory occur?
- Stalingrad
- Under the Stimson Doctrine, the US refused to
- recognize territorial gains in China by Japan
- What was the major reason Truman gave for his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945?
- to save American lives
- After Japan attacked the US, what did Hitler do?
- honored the pact with Japan by declaring war on the US
- What happened to the German officials responsible for the persecution of the Jews during the war?
- tried at Nuremberg for war crimes against humanity and executed
- The Nuremberg trials placed Germany's leaders on trial for what?
- crimes agains humanity; giving and following orders to commit war crimes
- What is true of Nazi concentration camps?
- included Jews, homosexuals, and various religious and political dissidents
- Many Japanese soldiers did not want to be taken prisoner so they would do what?
- commit suicide
- The Allies had interests in Asia but chose instead to do what?
- defeat Germany first
- For 2 years, Germany conquered France, overran most of Europe, and attacked?
- Great Britain and Soviet Union
- Which group had the most Holocaust victims?
- Jews
- What military action paved to way for the liberation of France?
- D-Day invasion of Normandy
- What was the Axis strategy to win in Eastern Europe?
- defeat the Soviet Union