History Chapter 22

What was the German term for the "lightning war

Blitzkrieg

Who said "your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars

Roosevelt

Where was the Atlantic Charter drawn

Placenta Bay, Newfoundland American cruiser Augusta and British battleship Prince of Whales

Who said I shall Return and who was it to

Macarthur, People of the Philippines

Besides Okinawa where did the Us want a foothold to Japan

Iwo Jima

What was the French Maginot Line and what was its German counterpart

a military line separating territory, Siegfried

Who agreed to let Hitler take western Poland and what was the name of the agreement

Russia (Stalin), Nazi Soviet Nonaggression Act

Where did the Germans aim their attack in the operation code named Barbarossa

Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad

When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941

What were three reasons that the US did not want to enter the war for so long

1) We were traditionally isolationist
2) We were still in debt from WW1
3) We were to busy looking at domestic problems due to Great Depression

Who were the Nisei, and what happened to them during WW1

They were 2nd generation Japanese Americans who were put in detention camps

Who symbolized the American women of industry during WW2

Rosie the Riveter

What was the blue and the gold star banner

Blue means a son gone to war and gold means a fallen son who will not be coming home

Where did operation overlord start

Normandy Coast of France

Who was the Supreme Allied Commander in 1944

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When was D-Day

June 6, 1944

Who was the "Desert Fox" what forces did he command

Erwin Rommel, German Axis forces in Africa at Tripoli

What was a cricket, who used it, and when

A small toy noisemaker, Maxwell Taylor, D-Day

Where did the "bulge occur in the battle of the bulge

50 miles into Allied lines at Bastogne

Who massacred millions from racial and ethnic groups, and what was the massacre called

Hitler, Holocaust

When was the bomb dropped on Hiroshima

August 6, 1945

When was the bomb dropped on Nagaskai

August 9, 1945

What was the turning point of the Japanese offensive

Battle of Midway

Who took over the presidenct upon FDR's death

Harry Truman

What was the name of the plane that dropped the first bomb

Enola Gray (B-29)

What was the German word for their armed forces

Wehrmacht

What was the German word for their air forces

Luftwaffe

Where was the "great arsenal of democracy

America

What is Anschluss

Union between Germany and Austria

In Norway whose name is synonymous with traitor

Quisling

What committees did the pacifist and isolationists organize

America First Committees

When did the Yalta meeting of the Big Three take place

February 1943

Who were the Big Three

Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill

What issue did the Russian leader at Yalta agree to but not practice

Democratic elections and government to every place he conquered

Who were Kamikazes

Organized squadrons of Japanese suicide bombers aimed at American battleships

When did Hitler write a book

When he was in Prison

What is it called

Mein Kampf

Who headed the U.S. Army and who headed the U.S. Navy on the Pacific front

Army- MacArthur, Navy- Nimitz

What occurred on a national scale in 1943 to help improve the governments tax flow

payroll deductions

Where did the "death march" occur in WW1

Bataan Peninsula

Who were the two new faces at Potsdam

Truman, Attlee

What was the one item upon which they agreed

The unconditional surrender of Japan

Where did Operation Torch take place

North Africa

Who commanded the mission

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When did the War Production Board begin

January 1942

What was the function of the War Production Board

To halt all domestic building to conserve the materials for the war effort

What was the most significant Pacific conquest in summer of 1944, what effect did it have on future fight

Taking of Mariana, Gave us a place where we could easily bomb Japan and Philippines

What act set aside 7 billion dollars to supply embattled nations

Lend-Lease Act

Who gave a speech about freedoms and what were they

Roosevelt/ Speech, worship, fear, want