Chapter 26
World War II
Review
Flashcards
TO STUDY FOR
YOUR TEST
Who was the fascist leader of Italy
prior to and during World War II?
Benito Mussolini
Who was the fascist leader of
Germany prior to and during
World War II?
Adolf Hitler
What was the name of the alliance
between Nazi Germany and Fascist
Italy?
Berlin-Rome Axis (Axis Powers)
Who was the communist leader of
the Soviet Union prior to and during
World War II?
Joseph Stalin
What is the major difference
between fascist and communist
governments?
Under fascism the businesses and land are
owned by individual people, and under
communism they are owned by the govt.
Before WWII starts, the militaristic
govt. of Japan began its expansion by
invading a part of what country?
China (Manchuria)
What is the name of the African
nation that Italy conquered prior to
the start of World War II?
Ethiopia
Against the Treaty of Versailles,
Hitler moved German troops into
what German territory as his first
aggressive action?
Rhineland
What is the first full nation that
Germany took over?
Austria
Which European nation fought a
civil war which was won by a
fascist dictator with the help of
Germany and Italy?
Spain
What is the name for the policy
of giving in to an aggressor
nation in order to avoid war?
Appeasement
British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain met with Hitler in what
German city to discuss the German
takeover of the Sudetenland?
Munich
After taking over the
Sudetenland, Germany soon
took over the rest of what nation
that it was in?
Czechoslovakia
What country does Germany sign a
non-aggression pact with prior to
World War II?
Soviet Union
What nation did Germany invade
which started World War II?
Poland
What was the name for the style of
warfare used by the Germans in
World War II to quickly defeat their
enemies using planes and tanks?
Blitzkrieg (lightning war)
What is the first nation that
Germany attacked during World
War II that it was unable to defeat?
Great Britain
Who was prime minister of Great
Britain during World War II?
Winston Churchill
What law allowed the U.S. to give
aid to the Allies before the U.S.
entered the war?
Lend Lease Act
What event brought the U.S. into
World War II?
Pearl Harbor
What kind of ship, which would
prove to be the most important in
the war, was not at Pearl Harbor?
aircraft
carriers
Who was President of the U.S. at
the start of, and during most of,
World War II?
Franklin Roosevelt
What is the name of the law that
allows the U.S. to draft men into the
military prior to our entering the war?
Selective Service Act
What is the name for when the
govt. divided up scarce goods for
use by its citizens during war?
rationing
What was the name for the symbol
of women workers in defense
industries during the war?
Rosie the Riveter
What was the only work that
women were allowed to do in
combat zones during the war?
Nurses for the
Army and
Navy
What was the name of the African
American pilots who overcame
prejudice to eventually fly thousands
of successful combat missions in
North Africa and Italy?
Tuskegee
Airmen
Where was labor leader A. Philip
Randolph successful in getting
equal rights for African-Americans?
In factories
with govt.
contracts
What group of people was hired during
the war in the bracero program, and
what kind of work did they do?
Mexicans,
farm work
Who are the Nisei?
Japanese American citizens
What are the reasons why
Japanese were put in internment
camps during the war?
• So they couldn’t
be spies against
the U.S.
• Racism against
Asians
• Anger over the
Pearl Harbor
attack
After the U.S. enters WWII where
do we first start fighting Germans?
North Africa
Who was U.S. general who
became the leader of all Allied
forces in Europe?
Dwight Eisenhower
What is the first nation that the U.S.
attacks in Europe?
Italy
What battle was the turning point
in the war in Europe against the
Germans?
Stalingrad
What is the nickname for the Allied
invasion of France?
D-Day
What was the last German
offensive of the war is known as?
Battle of the
Bulge
After Pearl Harbor Japan took over many
nations in Southeast Asia. Japan met the
most resistance in what nation which had
American forces stationed there?
Philippines
What was the name of the U.S.
general who became Allied
commander of all armed forces in
the Pacific war?
Douglas MacArthur
What was the name for when the Japanese
defeated the U.S. on the Philippines, and
marched our captured soldiers miles to a
prisoner of war camp and thousands of our
soldiers died along the way?
Bataan
Death
March
What were the two reasons why the
Battle of Coral Sea was so important in
naval history?
• 1st naval battle where
ships were not in sight
of each other and all
the fighting was done
by planes from aircraft
carriers
• 1st time in World War II
that a Japanese
invasion attempt was
stopped (they were on
their way to invade
Australia)
What is the name for the battle
that was the turning point in the
war in the Pacific?
Battle of
Midway
What is the name for the U.S. strategy to
cross the Pacific in the war against Japan
by attacking places that were not heavily
defended to quickly get near Japan?
Islandhopping
After the Japanese navy was
defeated by the U.S. in the Pacific,
what did the Japanese use as a
weapon against U.S. ships?
Kamikaze pilots
or planes
Name one of the two islands that the U.S.
took with heavy losses, which were close
enough to Japan to send bombing
missions from them to Japan and back?
Iwo Jima or
Okinawa
What is the common name for the
killing of 6 million Jewish people in
Europe by the Nazis?
Holocaust
What was the Nazi German name
for the program to eliminate the
Jewish people from Europe?
Final Solution
What is the name of the largest of
the Nazi concentration camps?
Auschwitz
What is the name of the U.S. top secret
program to build an atomic bomb?
Manhattan Project
What is the name for the U.S. President
who came to power at the end of World
War II, who made the decision to drop the
atomic bomb on Japan?
Harry Truman
Name the first Japanese city that the
U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on.
Hiroshima
Why did the U.S. economy come out
of World War II in excellent shape,
especially in comparison to other
nations that fought in the war?
No battles with
the exception of
Pearl Harbor
were fought on
U.S. soil
What did Americans do when the
war was over?
Celebrate!