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.