HI 102 Test 4

Dieppe

British forces attempted a raid at...

Clement Atlee

British prime minister after churchill

Vichy

French government that collaborated with the Germans

Erwin Rommel

Led the Afrika Korps, nicknamed Desert Fox

Mao Tse Tung

Led the Communist Chinese

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

Corregidor

fortified island that guarded the entrance to Manila Bay

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

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

Katyn forest

10000 captured Polish officers slaughtered here

Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam

3 Allied conferences

Munich Pact

Gave the Sudentenland to Germany

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

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

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

von Staufenburg

attempted to assassinate Hitler

Harry Truman

became president after Roosevelt

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

kamikazes

suicide planes loaded with explosives

Neville Chamberlain

British prime minister during the Munich Pact

Stuka

German Dive bombers

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

Chaing Kai Shek

Led the nationalist Chinese

Winston Churchill

Prime minister of great Britain in WW2, 20th century's greatest statesman

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

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

Atlantic Charter

declaration of the common war aims of America and Britain

Benito Mussolini

dictator of Italy, organized the Fascist party

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

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

Pearl Harbor

home base for America's pacific fleet

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

island hopping

strategy where only the most important islands would be assaulted

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?