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World History
Module 28 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who are the axis powers? | -Germany -italy -japan |
| attack on Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese | Mukden Incident |
| the slaughter of European civilians, specifically Jews, by the Nazis | holocaust |
| meeting where the Allies agreed to the establishment of a United Nations organization after the war | Yalta Conference |
| Nazi plan for the extermination of the jews | Final solution |
| policy that initially kept the U.S. from becoming involved in the war against Germany | isolationism |
| Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions against U.S. warships | kamikaze |
| meeting where Truman demanded free elections throughout Eastern Europe | Potsdam conference |
| german term for german air raids | blitz |
| meeting where Britain and France agreed to allow the Nazis to have Czechoslovakia as long as they respected the borders | munich conference |
| unoccupied France, governed by authoritarian regime under German control | Vichy France |
| the german air force | Luftwaffe |
| promised a common front against communism | Anti-Comintern Pact |
| meeting of the big three to discuss the final attack on Germany | Tehran Conference |
| policy that sought peace and stability by satisfying the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers | appeasement |
| history's greatest naval invasion on Normany Beach | D-Day |
| special strike forces for carrying out Nazi final solution | Einsatzgruppen |
| who are the allied powers? | -Great Britain -US -Soviet Union |
| gave Hitler the freedom to attack Poland | Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact |
| period of political tension following world war II | Cold War |
| head of the SS's security service and was given the task of administering the final solution | Reinhard Heydrich |
| British prime minister | Neville Chamberlain |
| What area is northwestern Czechoslovakia did Hitler demand? | Sudentenland |
| Hitler's blitzkrieg or "lightning war" was-- | a form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks |
| Two days after Hitler's invasion of Slovakia, what two countries declared war on Germany? | france Britain |
| At the Yalta Conference, the allies agreed to-- | The establishment of a United Nations organization after the war |
| The battle of Stalingrad was a crushing defeat for Germany because- | when the Germans were doing well, the Soviet Union trapped them and bombarded them during their harsh winter. This caused German to surrender to the Soviets |
| Heroic efforts by the British Royal Navy and civilians in private boats managed to evacuate 338,000 allied troops at-- | Dunkirk |
| What happened on December 7, 1941? | Japan surprised attack the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor |
| In order to address labor shortages during the war, Japan | Brought in Korean and Chinese laborers |
| At the Tehran Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill agreed to-- | a partition of postwar Germany |
| At the Potsdam Conference, Truman demanded what? | Free elections throughout Eastern Europe |
| What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? | The battle of Midway on June 4, 1942 |
| In what way were Japanese Americans treated differently than German Americans and Italian Americans? | Japanese Americans were taken from their homes to internment camps during the war. German Americans faced harassment from the government because of their ethnicity |
| What significant military action occurred at Midway Island in 1942? | while Japan was trying to attack the U.S., the U.S. knew about the plan and ended up destroying Japanese aircraft |
| What did the British develop to prepare for German air attack? | defensive measures |
| What factors caused president Truman to order the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan? | -wanted to end the war -thought the atomic bombs would show superiority of U.S. military |
| How did World War II affect the world balance of power? | Different nations were allowed to rise. This was because of Europes decline after the war |
| What nations emerged from the conflict as world powers? | -U.S -Soviet Union |
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