Chapter 29
What was the strategy of the United States' "island-hopping" campaign in the Pacific?
Allowed the U.S. to move North toward Japan
What was the Manhattan Project?
Atomic Bomb research
How did the Germans change their tactics in preparing for Operation Sea Lion?
Bomb London and other cities
What was the importance of the Battle of El Alamein in 1942?
British stopped the German invasion in North Africa
What was one of Stalin's major goals in Eastern Europe after World War II?
Create a protective Buffer zone of friendly governments
What was the importance of the Battle of the Bulge?
Delayed the allied invasion from the west
What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact accomplish for Germany?
Gave Germany a free-hand in Poland
How did Hitler violate the Versailles treaty in 1916?
He sent troops into the Rhineland
Why did Hitler decide to invade the Soviet Union?
He wanted their vast national resources
What action did the Western Allies take after World War II that caused the Soviets to strengthen their hold on East Germany?
Help Western Germany recover their economy
The League of Nations voted sanctions against which country for invading Ethiopia in 1935?
Italy
What important principle did the Nuremburg trails demonstrate ot the world?
National leaders could be accountable for war time actions
What change had taken place throughout Eastern Europe by 1948
Pro-soviet governments were in place
What happened at Dunkirk in the Spring of 1940?
Retreat across the English channel
What was usually the first stage of Hitler's blitzkrieg strategy?
The Luftwaffe attacked ground targets in the air
What was one reason why the Spanish Civil War was called a "dress rehearsal" for World War II?
The Nazis used the war to test their new weapons.
What stopped the German advance during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941?
The terrible winter of 1941 and 1942
What did the Soviet Union do during the Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939?
They invaded from the east
How did Churchill and Roosevelt give in to Stalin at the conference inTehran in 1943?
They let the borders in the Nazi-Soviet pack stand
What did the British and French do at the Munich Conference in 1938 to avoid war?
They persuaded the checks to Sudetenland
What U.S. action influenced the Japanese decision to attack the United States in 1941?
U.S. banned the sale of iron, steal, and oil to Japan
What was symbolic meaning of "Rosie the Riveter"?
Women who worked in U.S. manufacturing plants
The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of what?
containment
who were the Kamikaze?
japanese pilots who crashed into allied warships
After intense battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Japanese
rejected any suggestions to surrender
One of the reasons the allies won the war in Europe was
the huge productive capacity of the U.S.
in 1942, what priority did Roosevelt, churchill, and stalin set in the war?
to achieve victory in europe before trying to achieve it in asia
