Chapter 26 World

War II

Review Flashcards

TO STUDY FOR YOUR TEST

Who was the fascist leader of Italy prior to and during World War II?

Benito Mussolini

Who was the fascist leader of Germany prior to and during

World War II?

Adolf Hitler

What was the name of the alliance between Nazi Germany and Fascist

Italy?

Berlin-Rome Axis (Axis Powers)

Who was the communist leader of the Soviet Union prior to and during

World War II?

Joseph Stalin

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.

Before WWII starts, the militaristic govt. of Japan began its expansion by

invading a part of what country?

China (Manchuria)

What is the name of the African nation that Italy conquered prior to

the start of World War II?

Ethiopia

Against the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler moved German troops into what German territory as his first

aggressive action?

Rhineland

What is the first full nation that Germany took over?

Austria

Which European nation fought a civil war which was won by a

fascist dictator with the help of Germany and Italy?

Spain

What is the name for the policy of giving in to an aggressor

nation in order to avoid war?

Appeasement

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler in what German city to discuss the German

takeover of the Sudetenland?Munich

After taking over the Sudetenland, Germany soon

took over the rest of what nation that it was in?

Czechoslovakia

What country does Germany sign a non-aggression pact with prior to

World War II?

Soviet Union

What nation did Germany invade which started World War II?

Poland

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)

What is the first nation that Germany attacked during World

War II that it was unable to defeat?

Great Britain

Who was prime minister of Great Britain during World War II?

Winston Churchill

What law allowed the U.S. to give aid to the Allies before the U.S.

entered the war?

Lend Lease Act

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

Pearl Harbor

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

aircraftcarriers

Who was President of the U.S. at the start of, and during most of,

World War II?

Franklin Roosevelt

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

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

rationing

What was the name for the symbol of women workers in defense

industries during the war?

Rosie the Riveter

What was the only work that women were allowed to do in combat zones during the war?

Nurses for the Army and

Navy

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

Where was labor leader A. Philip Randolph successful in getting

equal rights for African-Americans?

In factories with govt. contracts

What group of people was hired during the war in the bracero program, and

what kind of work did they do?

Mexicans, farm work

Who are the Nisei?

Japanese American citizens

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

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

North Africa

Who was U.S. general who became the leader of all Allied

forces in Europe?

Dwight Eisenhower

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

Italy

What battle was the turning point in the war in Europe against the

Germans?

Stalingrad

What is the nickname for the Allied invasion of France?

D-Day

What was the last German offensive of the war is known as?

Battle of the Bulge

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

What was the name of the U.S. general who became Allied

commander of all armed forces in the Pacific war?

Douglas MacArthur

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

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)

What is the name for the battle that was the turning point in the

war in the Pacific?

Battle of Midway

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

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

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

What is the common name for the killing of 6 million Jewish people in

Europe by the Nazis?

Holocaust

What was the Nazi German name for the program to eliminate the

Jewish people from Europe?

Final Solution

What is the name of the largest of the Nazi concentration camps?

Auschwitz

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

Manhattan Project

What is the name for the U.S. President who came to power at the end of World

War II, who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?

Harry Truman

Name the first Japanese city that the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on.

Hiroshima

Why did the U.S. economy come out of World War II in excellent shape, especially in comparison to other

nations that fought in the war?

No battles with the exception of Pearl Harbor were fought on U.S. soil

What did Americans do when the war was over?

Celebrate!