Unit 8-World War II Review

Kristallnacht

(Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews.

Josef Stalin (1929-1953)

-Soviet Union Communist leader -collectivization of agriculture -5 year plans - heavy industry -eliminates opposition - Great Purges

Nuremberg Laws

1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood.

Yalta Conference

1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war. Included a plan to divide post war Germany and plan for trials for war criminals.

Tuskegee Airmen

332 Fighter Group famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes. African American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee flying school.

Holocaust

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

How did the Allied occupation change Japan after the war?

A new, more democratic constitution was enacted.

Winston Churchill

A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.

Appeasement

A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. Associated with Neville Chamberlain's policy of making concessions to Adolf Hitler.

Axis Powers

Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.

Allied Powers

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.

Adolf Hitler

Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.

Ghettos

City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live

Genocide

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group. The intent to destroy a group of people

Benito Mussolini

Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.

Final Solution

Final solution of the Jewish question-murder of every single Jew-had begun-mass arresting, and trafficking of Jews to the concentration camps-mass killings occurred as well in the gas chambers

Which area did Japan's militaristic government invade in 1931 to conquer more land and resources?

Manchuria, China

Which Naval battle was a turning point in the Allies' favor because it caused heavy damage to Japan's naval capability in the Pacific theater of war?

Midway

Code Talkers

Navajo Indians recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps to transmit messages in the Navajo language

Why was the battle of Stalingrad a significant turning point in the European theater of World War II?

The German army was turned away from the offensive on the Eastern Front.

How did Great Britain and France respond to Hitler's growing aggression in Europe and the annexation of Austria as signaled by the signing of the Munich Agreement?

They appeased Hitler by allowing him to take the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise that he would seek no more territory.

Which statement best describes President Roosevelt's attitude and policy regarding the outbreak of World War II in Europe?

Which statement best describes President Roosevelt's attitude and policy regarding the outbreak of World War II in Europe?

Go For Broke Regiment

all-nisei soldiers and the most decorated in U.S. military history

What contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in the 1930s?

extreme nationalism as a result of feelings of humiliation after World War I, a weakened economy because of heavy war debts and a global depression

What was the main motivation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

in retaliation for a U.S. embargo on resources it needed

What was the rationale for the U.S. island-hopping strategy it employed in the Pacific theater of war?

to capture islands that could support an airfield rather than engage in combat on Japanese-controlled islands

What was the secret arrangement made between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the non-aggression treaty they signed?

to divide Polish territory between them