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