Vocab
What is blitzkrieg?
Fast moving forces that use tanks and planes
This event pulled the US into WWII?
Pearl Harbor
How many people were killed during the holocaust? How many were Jewish?
1) 11 million
2) 6 million
This country is split by using a line of latitude
Korea- 38th parallel
What is appeasement?
Act of giving in to avoid conflict
Casablanca Conference?
Meeting that determined only an unconditional surrender from Hitler would be accepted.
What was the Battle of Britain?
Hilter's attempt to bomb London into submission for a surrender
Besides Jews, who else were targeted for concentration camps?
physical and mental disabilities, gypsies, homosexuals
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Military alliance of the Soviet Union and it's satellite nations
Name a country that Japan invaded?
1) China
2) Korea
3) Southeast Asia (Philippines, Vietnam)
1) Dominate political party or dictator
2) Government runs business
3) Newspapers/media are gov controlled
This battle was Hitler's first defeat?
Stalingrad
What is Kristallnacht?
1) Night of shattered glass
2) Jewish shops were destroyed, promoted by the government
Mao's push for larger collective farming
What is the night of the long knives?
Hitler ordered the killing of 100 political opponents
What conference determined that D-Day will be a future military operation?
Tehran Conference
This country was agreed to be split between Stalin and Hitler
Poland
Define Final Solution
Hitler's plan to execute in mass volumes of those in camps during the war
This event was led by students in China to protest for more democratic freedom within their country that ultimately turned violent
Tiananmen Square
What outcome took place at Potsdam?
Stalin agreed to have elections in his satellite nations
This was Hilter's first military acquisition
Rhineland
This was an area that Hitler created a deal with England to acquire from Czechoslovakia?
Sudetenland
What was an example of a Nuremburg Law?
1) Jews could not marry non Jews
2) Jews must wear star
3) Jews were banned from movie theaters
1) Old customs
2) Old ideas
3) Old culture
4) Old habits
Name the Axis powers and their leaders
1) Germany Hitler
2) Italy Mussolini
3) Japan Tojo/Hirohito