Exam Review

Europe Stuff

100

Blitzkrieg means?

lightening war

200

After this battle, Hitler committed suicide 

Battle of Berlin

300

Black Saturday was the beginning of what during what battle?

the beginning of the Blitz

Battle of Britain

400

Name 3 results of the battle of Stalingrad 

• Severe humiliation for Hitler.
• Confidence boost for Stalin.
• The German army suffered terrible losses.
• The German army never fully recovered.
• Germany would never conquer the Soviet Union.
• The Soviets would soon push Germany out of the Soviet Union.

500

Name 5 beaches the allied troops landed on during the Battle of Normandy.

Gold,  Juno, Sword, Utuah, Omaha

Japan Stuff

100

What day was Pearl Harbor? 

Dec. 7, 1941

200

Almost half of the casualties at Pearl Harbor occurred on the naval battleship ? How many died? 

USS Arizona, 1177

300

This is the first battle the US witnessed kamikaze

Battle of Leyte Gulf

400

The result of battle of Okinawa? 

President Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9), cities in Japan

500

Name the battle:

The Japanese changed their tactics. They fought from: dugouts, caves, and tunnels

They launched a surprise attack on the allied troops

Battle of Iwo Jima

GD/NEW DEAL

100

a common term for shakedowns and homeless encampments turing the GD

Hoovervilles 

200

How many banks failed during the 1930s?

9,000

300

What is the definition of stock market? 

the combination of buyers and sellers of stocks, which represent ownership claims on businesses

400

Created a partnership of business, labor, and government to attack the depression with such measures as price controls and high wages

National Recovery Act (NRA)

500

Gave money to states and municipalities so they could distribute money, clothing, and food to the unemployed

Federal Emergency Relief Admin (FERA)

Holocaust

100

what is hostility or prejudice towards Jews

Anti-Semitism

200

What does Kristallnacht mean and what happened?

 “Night of the Broken Glass”

• Jewish synagogues, businesses, homes, hospitals, and schools were vandalized, if not completely destroyed.

300

How many concentration camps were established all over Europe.

40,000

400

Name 4 laws under the Nuremberg Laws

• stated that only Aryans could be full German citizens
• German businesses refused service to Jews, including hospitals.
• Jewish children were no longer allowed to attend school.
• became illegal for an Aryan to marry a Jew

500

Explain the process of the Creation of Israel. How many jews migrated to newly created Israel? 

The United Nations voted to divide Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. 

700,000

Random

100

the regeneration of bones, muscles, and nerves, and the transplantation of bone.

bone grafting

200

What were the trials called that tried German officals

How many were tried?

How many killed?

How many proven innocent?

Nuremberg Trials

22 tried

12 killed

3 innocent 

300

Give two examples of imperialism that helped caused WWII

Japan invades Manchuria, a region in China.

 Italy invades Ethiopia in north Africa.

400

their job was to kill any Jews they could find in the occupied Soviet territory

• mass-murder of Jews, Roma, Slavs, prisoners of war, political opponents, and others

Mobile Killing Units

500

Inmates of camps were forced to do what during the evacuating of camps ?

Death Marches