Chapter 26 World War II Review Flashcards

1. Chapter 26 World War IIReview Flashcards

2. Who was the fascist leader of Italy prior to and during World War II? Benito Mussolini

3. Who was the fascist leader of Germany prior to and during World War II? Adolf Hitler

4. What was the name of the alliance between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy? Berlin-Rome Axis (Axis Powers)

5. Who was the communist leader of the Soviet Union prior to and during World War II? Joseph Stalin

6. What is the major difference between fascist and communist governments? Under fascism the businesses and land are owned by individual people, and under communism they are owned by the govt.

7. Before WWII starts, the militaristic govt. of Japan began its expansion by invading a part of what country? China (Manchuria)

8. What is the name of the African nation that Italy conquered prior to the start of World War II? Ethiopia

9. Against the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler moved German troops into what German territory as his first aggressive action? Rhineland

10. What is the first full nation that Germany took over? Austria

11. Which European nation fought a civil war which was won by a fascist dictator with the help of Germany and Italy? Spain

12. What is the name for the policy of giving in to an aggressor nation in order to avoid war? Appeasement

13. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler in what German city to discuss the German takeover of the Sudetenland? Munich

14. After taking over the Sudetenland, Germany soon took over the rest of what nation that it was in? Czechoslovakia

15. What country does Germany sign a non-aggression pact with prior to World War II? Soviet Union

16. What nation did Germany invade which started World War II? Poland

17. What was the name for the style of warfare used by the Germans in World War II to quickly defeat their enemies using planes and tanks? Blitzkrieg (lightning war)

18. What is the first nation that Germany attacked during World War II that it was unable to defeat? Great Britain

19. Who was prime minister of Great Britain during World War II? Winston Churchill

20. What law allowed the U.S. to give aid to the Allies before the U.S. entered the war? Lend Lease Act

21. What event brought the U.S. into World War II? Pearl Harbor

22. What kind of ship, which would prove to be the most important in the war, was not at Pearl Harbor? aircraft carriers

23. Who was President of the U.S. at the start of, and during most of, World War II? Franklin Roosevelt

24. What is the name of the law that allows the U.S. to draft men into the military prior to our entering the war? Selective Service Act

25. What is the name for when the govt. divided up scarce goods for use by its citizens during war? rationing

26. What was the name for the symbol of women workers in defense industries during the war? Rosie the Riveter

27. What was the only work that women were allowed to do in combat zones during the war? Nurses for the Army and Navy

28. What was the name of the African American pilots who overcame prejudice to eventually fly thousands of successful combat missions in North Africa and Italy? Tuskegee Airmen

29. Where was labor leader A. Philip Randolph successful in getting equal rights for African-Americans? In factories with govt. contracts

30. What group of people was hired during the war in the bracero program, and what kind of work did they do? Mexicans, farm work

31. Who are the Nisei? Japanese American citizens

32. What are the reasons why Japanese were put in internment camps during the war? • So they couldn’t be spies against the U.S. • Racism against Asians • Anger over the Pearl Harbor attack

33. After the U.S. enters WWII where do we first start fighting Germans? North Africa

34. Who was U.S. general who became the leader of all Allied forces in Europe? Dwight Eisenhower

35. What is the first nation that the U.S. attacks in Europe? Italy

36. What battle was the turning point in the war in Europe against the Germans? Stalingrad

37. What is the nickname for the Allied invasion of France? D-Day

38. What was the last German offensive of the war is known as? Battle of the Bulge

39. After Pearl Harbor Japan took over many nations in Southeast Asia. Japan met the most resistance in what nation which had American forces stationed there? Philippines

40. What was the name of the U.S. general who became Allied commander of all armed forces in the Pacific war? Douglas MacArthur

41. What was the name for when the Japanese defeated the U.S. on the Philippines, and marched our captured soldiers miles to a prisoner of war camp and thousands of our soldiers died along the way? BataanDeathMarch

42. What were the two reasons why the Battle of Coral Sea was so important in naval history? • 1st naval battle where ships were not in sight of each other and all the fighting was done by planes from aircraft carriers • 1st time in World War II that a Japanese invasion attempt was stopped (they were on their way to invade Australia)

43. What is the name for the battle that was the turning point in the war in the Pacific? Battle of Midway

44. What is the name for the U.S. strategy to cross the Pacific in the war against Japan by attacking places that were not heavily defended to quickly get near Japan? Island- hopping

45. After the Japanese navy was defeated by the U.S. in the Pacific, what did the Japanese use as a weapon against U.S. ships? Kamikaze pilots or planes

46. Name one of the two islands that the U.S. took with heavy losses, which were close enough to Japan to send bombing missions from them to Japan and back? Iwo Jima or Okinawa

47. What is the common name for the killing of 6 million Jewish people in Europe by the Nazis? Holocaust

48. What was the Nazi German name for the program to eliminate the Jewish people from Europe? Final Solution

49. What is the name of the largest of the Nazi concentration camps? Auschwitz

50. What is the name of the U.S. top secret program to build an atomic bomb? Manhattan Project