History, Section 14
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- In 1934, ______ and an _______ colony next to it fought over the __________ ___
- Ethiopia and an Italian/boundary line
- _________ _____________ used this dispute as an excuse to invade Ethiopia
- Benito Mussonlini
- Ethiopean's emperor ______ _________ asked the League of Nations for help
- Haile Solassie
- League condemned _____ for invading Ethiopia
- Italy
- _______ took no military action
- League
- in 1937 _____ withdrew from the League
- Italy
- Invaded Manchuria
- Japan
- Invaded Ethiopia
- Italy
- Invaded remainder of China
- Japan
- northwestern part of china
- japan
- Invaded Austria (how)
- Germany (no fighting)
- Invaded the Sudetenland
- Germany (no fighting necessary)
- Part of Czechoslovakia
- Sudetenland
- Invaded the remainder of Czechoslovakia
- Germany
- Invaded Poland (name date)
- Germany and Russia (1939-WWII)
- Hitler withdrew ________ from the League of Nations
- Germany
- hitler wanted the
- sudetenland
- part of czechoslovakia where many germans lived-what did hitler claim about the germans living there?
- Sudetenland-claimed that the Germans there werebeing mistreated
- name the 4 people present at the Munich Conference
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1. Hitler
2. Mussolini
3. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Daladion - followed a policy of appeasement
- yielding to the demands of an aggressor to preserve peace
- what countries allowed Hitler to have the Sudetenland?
- france and England
- In exchange for the Sudetenland, what did Hitler promise?
- not to take anymore land in Europe
- Who said "This means peace in our time?"
- Neville Chamberlain
- Hitler then took the remainder of
- Czechoslovakia
- stalin and hitler promised
- not to attack each other
- why was the stalin/hitler pact a surprise to the world?
- because of stalin's hatred of Fascism and Hitler's hatred of Communist
- what was a secret part of the Stalin/Hitler pact?
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1. both germnay and russia would obtain a part of poland
2. germany would not interfere iwth Rissi'as retaking some areas that had been laost when Russia withdrew from WWI - what country was invaded using the blitzkrieg? Define this terms
- Poland. "Lightning War" the rapid movement of tanks and troops
- declared war on Germany when Germany invaded poland
- Britain and France
- "sit down war"
- sitzkrieg
- who served as prime minister of Britian diring most of WWII?
- Winston Churchill
- Amazingly most wre able to escape across the English channel to Britain
- dunkirk
- leader of the free french government,leader of French troops that were in Britain
- Erwin Rommel
- Germany invasian of britain
- operation Sea Lion
- Name the german airforce and the english airforce
- Luftwaffe and RAF (Royal Air Force)
- This invastion never occurred
- Operation Sea Lion
- Known as Desert Fox
- Erwin Rommel
- outstanding German generla who fought in Norht Africa
- Erwin Rommel
- list the major 4 countries that fought on the side of Allies during WWII
- Britain, France, Russia, US
- Name the three major countries which fought on the side of Axis during WWII
- Japan, Italy, Germany
- Erwin rommel lost this battle
- Battle of El Alamein
- name for the invasion of Normany, France
- operation Overlord
- Who commanded Operation Overlord?
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
- German's last major attack against the Allies. Tell who won
- Germany lost, Battle of the Bulge
- Describe Mussolini's death
- killed by italians, body hung upside down
- describe hitler's death
- committed suicide. Body burned on his order
- Who was present at the Yalta Conference?
- Franklin Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill
- What would happen to Germany?
- it would be divided into 4 zones
- what was created out of the Yalta Conference?
- United Nations, based in New York
- president after roosevelt
- truman
- leaders in Potsdam Germnay
- Stalin, Churchill (replaced by Clement Attlee) and Truman
- Battle of Midway
- Great victory. Stopped Japanese advance toward Hawaii
- U.S. army commander in the Pacific area
- Douglas MacArthur
- define island hopping
- taking control of islands that held supllies for other Japanese controlled islands
- what does kamikaze mean?
- divine wind
- where were the atomic bombs dropped?
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- name in order how the major axis countries fell
- 1. Italy 2. Germany Japan surrendered last