Fall Of Southeast Asian Colonies

Question: Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Answer: In December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Killing 2,330 Americans. American declared war on Japan and its allies.

Question: Fall of Southeast Asian Colonies

Answer: Japan invaded more than 1 million square miles of Asian land to gain resources.

Question: Doolittle´s Raid on Japan

Answer: Doolittle bombed Tokyo and several other Japanese cities.

Question: Battle of Coral Sea

Answer: Use of naval Warfare.Both ships did not fire a single shot, planes were used to attack ships.

Question: Battle of Midway

Answer: American carrier planes defeated Japanese fleet, which reversed the tide of the war in the Pacific.

Question: Battle of Guadalcanal

Answer: U.S. marines, with Australian support, seized Japanese airfield and fought on land and sea for the island of Guadalcanal.

Question: Isoroku Yamamoto

Answer: Japan´s greatest naval strategist.

Question: Douglas MacArthur

Answer: U.S. commander of Allied forces in the Pacific who supported an "island hopping" strategy against the Japanese.

Question: Master race

Answer: Aryans

Question: Victims of the Holocaust

Answer: Non-Aryans, primarily Jews

Question: Nuremberg Laws

Answer: German laws depriving Jews of rights to citizenship and jobs.

Question: Kristallnacht

Answer: Nazis launched violent attacks on Jewish communities all over Germany.

Question: Final Solution

Answer: Systematic killing of entire groups of people, particularly Jews, whom the Nazis saw as inferior.

Question: Countries where German Jews tried to immigrate to find safety.

Answer: France, Britain, USA, and others.

Question: Ghettos

Answer: Jews where forced to live in segregated Jewish areas in German-controlled cities.

Question: Concentration Camps

Answer: Located mainly in Germany and Poland.

Question: Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other "subhumans" had to be exterminated?

Answer: To protect the purity of the Aryan race.

Question: Why did the Germans build extermination camps?

Answer: To carry out mass murders in huge gas chambers.

Question: Final stage of the Final Solution

Answer: Early 1942

Question: How did non-Jewish people try to save Jews from the horrors of Nazism?

Answer: By hiding Jews in their homes or helping them escape to neutral countries.

Question: How many Jews died in the Holocaust?

Answer: About 6 million.

Question: Holocaust

Answer: Mass slaughter of civilians, primarily Jews.

Question: Aryans

Answer: Germans

Question: Ghettos

Answer: Segregated living areas for Jews within cities.

Question: Genocide

Answer: Systematic murder of an entire population.

Question: Battle of El Alamein

Answer: Forced Rommel and his forces to retreat westward from Egypt.

Question: Operation Torch

Answer: Landed american troops in north Africa; finally crushed Rommel´s Africa Korps.

Question: Battle of Stalingrad

Answer: Put German forces on the defensive with the Soviets, pushing them westward.

Question: Invasion of Italy

Answer: Resulted in Allied conquest of Sicily and forced eventual surrender of Italy.

Question: Propaganda campaigns on home fronts

Answer: Rallied people on the home front to do their part to support the war effort.

Question: D-Day Invasion

Answer: Opened a second front in Europe; led to the liberation of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and much of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.

Question: Battle of the Bulge

Answer: German offensive forced Allies to retreat; Allied resistance stopped Germans and resulted in heavy losses for Hitler.

Question: Battle of Leyte Gulf

Answer: Wiped out the Japanese navy.

Question: Battle of Okinawa

Answer: Resulted in heavy losses for Japanese and moved Allies closer to an invasion of Japanese homeland.

Question: Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer: Forced surrender of Japan and the end of war.

Question: Bernard Montgomery

Answer: British commander who launched Battle of El Alamein, in which Rommel´s army was defeated.

Question: Dwight Eisenhower

Answer: American general who led D-Day invasion.

Question: Ways war affect the land and people of Europe

Answer: Destroyed cities, factories, farmland, and utilities, resulting in a ruined economy, shortages, famine, disease, unemployment, and destroyed lives.

Question: Political problems postwar governments faced

Answer: Displaced persons, discredited governments, lack of political leadership, threat of Communist takeovers.

Question: Way the Allies dealt with the Holocaust

Answer: Put Nazis on trial for "crimes against humanity" .

Question: Two effects of Allied bombing raids on Japan

Answer: Destroyed cities, shattered economy, caused deaths of two million people.

Question: Three ways U.S. occupation changed Japan

Answer: Government was democratized, land ownership was expanded, standing army was disbanded, and independent labor unions were formed.

Question: Three provisions in Japan's new constitution

Answer: Two-house parliament (Diet) elected by the people, prime minister chosen by majority of Diet as head of government, a vote for all citizens over 20. Japan forbidden to start an offensive war.

Question: Nuremburg Trials

Answer: To punish the guilty and prevent another Holocaust from happening.

Question: Demilitarisation of Japan

Answer: To prevent Japan from starting another war.