Aggressors Invade Nations
Japan began by invading this city in China
Manchuria
Another name for the lightning war is
Blitzkreig
_____________________ was a city named after Stalin.
Stalingrad
__________________ was a Japanese naval strategist during world war 2.
Isoroku Yamamoto
The belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided is called
Isolationism
Italy invaded _______________ to gain colonies in Africa.
Ethiopia
_________________ created a French government in England and liberated France.
Charles De Gualle
Erwin Rommels army was called
Afrika korps
The people in the Bataan Death March were
Asian and American people that surrendered to Japan.
What was the name of the beach that the French troops were trapped on during the German invasion?
Dunkirk
Giving in to an aggressor to maintain peace is called
Appeasement
________________ was a german decoding device that was smuggled into Great Britain.
Enigma
Name the battle that happened near a city in Alexandria in Egypt.
Battle of El Alamein
The battle that introduced new naval warfare including planes flying from boats was
The battle of the coral sea
The battle in which the allies surrounded Germany is called
the battle of the bulge
Who was the new leader of Spain after the revolution?
Francisco Franco
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Overlord occurred in _____________ on d DAY.
Normandy,France
The battle that was located in the Island of the death is called
The Battle of Guadalcanal
Describe how the allies invaded Italy. How did this invasion end?
Roosevelt and Churchill planned to attack Italy.
It took them 1 month and they had captured Sicily from Italian and German troops.
They forced Mussolini to step down And King VIctor Emmanuel had him arrested.
Germany seized control of northern Italy and put Mussolini in charge again.
Germany then retreated north and the allies entered Rome and conquered it.
During this time, Germany had fallen.
Italian resistance fighters attacked german trucks and found Mussolini inside disguised as a german soldier.
They shot him the next day and hung his body in downtown Milan for everyone to see.
Give two reasons why Hitlers invasion of the Rhineland was a turning point for Germany.
It gave Hitler more power and prestige in Germany.
It made France and Belgium weak because they were not open for attack.
The weak response from Britain and France encouraged him to expand even more.
Describe the Siege of Leningrad.
It was completely cut off from the rest of the soviet union. People starved , hitler had ordered that all their food sources be burned down. People resorted to eating cattle and horse food, cats and dogs and even crows and rats. 1 million people died that winter but they refused to give up.
Explain why America bombed Japan.
America warned japan but they did not respond.
On August 6, 1945 America dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima. Three days later they dropped a bomb on Nagasaki.
Japan surrendered and the war was officially over.
Compare and Contrast the attack on Midway and the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
similarities: the location is America. both situations Japan attacked America. Differences: Pearl harbor: America didn't know where or when they would come. Midway: America knew when and where so they were prepared.
State three similarities between world war 1 and world war 2.
1- Germany was against France and Britain.
2- America tries not to get involved but they come in the end to save the day.
3- countries abandon each other and betray one another (Italy leaves the central powers in world war 1. Hitler betrays Russia)
4- American ships and submarines are attacked which brings them into the war.