11.1 War Clouds Gather
The policy of giving into the demands of others in an effort to keep peace.
What is appeasement?
A fast, sudden attack by massed forces.
What is a blitzkrieg?
Protective measures taken by civilians in case of attack.
What is civil defense?
The name given to the mass slaughter of Jews by Nazis during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
A Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target.
What was a kamikaze?
Two words to describe German citizens who followed Hitler (or other people who follow totalitarian rulers)?
What are frightened, angry, or bitter?
This was the end result of the Battle of Britain.
Who were Japanese Americans?
This caused the U.S. to officially enter WW II.
What was Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
What was Hiroshima, Japan?
The reason Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931.
Who was the need for natural resources to supply their military?
After the Battle of Britain, Hitler decided to attack this nation.
What was the Soviet Union?
What was the role of code talkers?
This battle was the major turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union.
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
The reason it was important for the United States to capture Guam.
What is that it could serve as a base for U.S. bombers in the Pacific?
Two things banned by the Neutrality Acts.
What were selling weapons and making loans to nations at war?
This was unusual about the Dunkirk rescue.
What is that civilian fishing boats (along with British warships and ferries) came to evacuate French and British troops?
Two ways that the U.S. government raised funds for the $320 billion spent on the war.
What were raising business taxes, requiring most Americans to pay income tax, and selling war bonds?
When entering the war, Roosevelt chose this leader's strategy for these reasons (name the leader and give two reasons).
Who was Churchill? What were giving the U.S. combat experience, boosting morale with easier opposition, and taking pressure off British forces in Egypt?
After battles on these two islands, the U.S. concluded that Japan would not surrender in spite of severe losses.
What were Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
Four main causes of World War II, before Hitler's invasion of Poland.
What were the Treaty of Versailles, the Great Depression, a policy of appeasement, and Japanese expansion?
Four things that Roosevelt did to prepare for war while still remaining neutral.
What were increasing the size of the Navy, revising the Neutrality Acts (to allow warring nations to buy U.S. goods), making a deal with the British to give 50 destroyers for lease of 8 British bases, and signing the Selective Service and Training Act (starting a peacetime draft)?
Three distinct jobs that women had in the military.
What were working in military offices, serving as nurses, acting as pilots between bases, serving as co-pilots on search missions, and flying weather planes?
Two rights that the Nuremberg laws took away from Jews.
What were their citizenship and the right to marry Germans?
What were that an invasion could have cost many more American (and possibly Japanese) lives and that the bombs did end the war as planned? What were the loss of civilian life, the environmental and health effects, and the start of nuclear weapons programs around the world?