HI 102 Test 4
Dieppe
British forces attempted a raid at...
Clement Atlee
British prime minister after churchill
Neville Chamberlain
British prime minister during the Munich Pact
Vichy
French government that collaborated with the Germans
Erwin Rommel
Led the Afrika Korps, nicknamed Desert Fox
Mao Tse Tung
Led the Communist Chinese
Chaing Kai Shek
Led the nationalist Chinese
Atlantic Charter
declaration of the common war aims of America and Britain
Benito Mussolini
dictator of Italy, organized the Fascist party
SS
elite corps of fanatical Nazis
Hiroshima
first atomic bomb was dropped on
Battle of Coral Sea
first naval battle in history in which the opposing vessels did not sight one another
Tarawa
first step in the island hopping campaign
Anschluss
forced union of Germany with Austria
Nazism
form of socialism that relies more heavily on terrorist aggression, fanatical racism, and antidemocratic nationalism
Fascism
form of socialism, similar to Communism except it allows some private property and enterprise, although strictly regulated
Corregidor
fortified island that guarded the entrance to Manila Bay
Admiral William Halsey
fought to take the Solomons
appeasement
giving in the the demands of aggressor nations
Flying Tigers
group of volunteer American airmen who flew missions against Japan
Vidkun Quisling
head of the Nazi puppet government in Norway
Royal Air Force
held off the ermans long enough to evacuate Dunkirk
Fermi, teller, Oppenheimer
helped develop the atomic bomb
Pearl Harbor
home base for America's pacific fleet
Operation Torch
invasion of Vichy French Northwest Africa
Treblinka, Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz
largest Nazi concentration camps
Manhattan Project
largest research and scientific effort of its day
Adolph Hitler
leader of the National Socialist Worker's Party or Nazis
General Hideki Tojo
leader of the militarists in Japan
General Douglas MacArthur
led US forces in Phillipines
Jimmy Doolittle
led a bombing raid over Tokyo
Claire Chennault
led the Flying Tigers
Charles de Gaulle
led the Free French
blitzkrieg
lightning war, or fast, heavy assault by motorized forces and air power
Sudentenland
mountainous region along the German-Czech border
Nazi-soviet pact
non aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin
Katyn forest
10000 captured Polish officers slaughtered here
Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
3 Allied conferences
Munich Pact
Gave the Sudentenland to Germany
Stuka
German Dive bombers
Luftwaffe
German air force
Afrika Korps
German army in north africa
von Pollis
German general at Stalingrad
Panzer
German tanks
June 1941
Germany invades the Soviet union
Reichstag
Germany's chief legislative body
Bataan Peninsula
American forces retreated to
December 1941
Attack on Pearl Harbor
General Francisco Franco
Fought to keep Spain from falling to the Communists in the Spanish Civil War
Henri Petain
France surrendered to the Nazis under
Eduouard Daladier
French Premier who worked with Chamberlain on the Munich Pact
Maginot Line
French fortifications that opposed the Germans
August 1941
Great Britain and US issue the Atlantic Charter
1933
Hitler comes to power in Germany
Mein Kampf an autobiography and book of Nazist ideaology
Hitler wrote ____ while in jail
Today Germany, tomorrow the world
Hitler's motto
Third Reich
Hitlers empire
annihilation of the Jewish people and other groups he considered inferior
Hitlers most nefarious scheme
Operation Sea Lion
Hitlers plan to invade and conquer Britain
Der Fuhrer
Hitlers title, means the leader
Mussolini
I will become a new caesar
Hitler
I will build a Reich that will last 1000 years
Hitler
If we lose this war, I won't shed a tear for the german people, they will have proven themselves unworthy of victory
June 1944
Invasion of Normandy and capture of Rome
Manchuria
Japan began the wave of aggression by invading
September 1945
Japan surrenders, VJ day
Battle of the Phillipine Sea
Japanese attempt to stop the invasion of Saipan
Battle of leyte Gulf
Japanese lost almost all of their remaining ships and planes
Albania
Mussolini seized
Ardennes forest
Nazi counterattack was launched in
Nuremburg
Nazi leaders were put on trial in
Gestapo
Nazi secret police
Siegfried Line
Nazis fortifications that opposed the French
Battle of the Bulge
Nazis last great offensive in the west
Dunkirk
Nazis pushed the French all the way to
Aleutian islands
Only territory in North America invaded by Axis powers
Winston Churchill
Prime minister of great Britain in WW2, 20th century's greatest statesman
the Axis powers
Rome Berlin Tokyo axis became
Order 227
Russians forced their own troos to walk on a mined road in order to detonate them "no retreat"
Hitler
Should have shot themselves with their last bullet
the communist government in russia
The US government officially recognized ....
Mussolini
Think with your blood
Hitler
Today Germany, tomorrow the world
June 1942
US defeats Japan at the battle of midway
August 1945
US drops atomic bombs on Japan
Battle of Midway
US navy broke the back of the Japanese fleet
Midway Wake and Guam
US outposts in the Pacific
May 1945
VE day...Germany surrenders
Neutrality Act of 1937
What act kept the US out of WW2
Stalingrad
Where was the Nazi offensive in Russia stopped?
General Bernard Montgomery
Who launced a counteroffensive against the Afrika Korps at El Alamein
Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton
Who led operation torch
1939
World war 2 begins. Nazi Soviet pact, Germany invades Poland
United Nations was established
Yalta Conference
Fighting Red Tails
a unit comprised of talented black American pilots
von Staufenburg
attempted to assassinate Hitler
Harry Truman
became president after Roosevelt
Bataan deat march
captured americans were forced to walk 70 miles to prison camps
Rudolph Hoss
commandant of Auschwitz
Admiral Chester Nimitz
commander in chief of the US pacific fleet
Nagasaki
second atomic bomb was dropped on
Nisei
second generation Japanese American soldiers
sitzkrieg
sittiing down war, trench warfare
Holocaust
slaughter of 6 million jews
island hopping
strategy where only the most important islands would be assaulted
kamikazes
suicide planes loaded with explosives
D-Day, invasion of normandy
the largest amphibious assault in history
Emporer hirohito
the official head of the Japanese government
Potsdam Declaration
told the Japanese to surrender unconditionally
1941
turning point of the war in europe
Albert Einstein
warned the President that the Germans were developing an atomic bomb
pocket battleships
warships designed to meet the size limitaitions imposed on Germany's navy by the Treaty of Versailles
Panay
what American gunboat was sunk on the Yangtze river
Lend Lease act
what act allowed the president to sell or lend war materials to defend nations
Britain
who invented radar?