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Two days after Hitler invaded here, Britain and France declared war on Germany

What is Poland?

The “Mukden Incident,” which Japan used as an excuse to seize this Chinese land, was an attack on a Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese

What is Manchuria?

One of the first things Hitler did to violate the Treaty of Versailles was to place military troops in this area, which was supposed to be a demilitarized buffer zone on the French border

What was the Rhineland?

Hitler demanded, and was given, this area in Czechoslovakia

What was the Sudetenland?

June 6 th, 1944 was the date General Eisenhower launched the D-Day invasion on this French city’s beaches

What was Normandy?

A “lightning war” that utilized tanks supported by airplanes

What was a blitzkrieg?

Nazi plan for the extermination or genocide of the Jews

What was the “final solution”?

This gave Hitler the freedom to attack Poland

What was the Nazi Soviet Non- Aggression Pact?

The treaty between Germany and Japan promising a common front against Communism

What was the Anti- Comintern Pact?

The special strike forces for carrying out the Nazi’s “Final Solution”

What was Einsatzgruppen?

The policy that sought peace and stability by satisfying the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers

What was the Appeasement Policy?

This military strategy was used by the American forces in the Pacific, as they only chose to attack the major Japanese bases and bypassed the smaller ones

What was Island Hopping?

The turning point in the war in the Pacific

What was the Battle of Midway Island?

The meeting at which the Allies decided that Germany should be divided into occupation zones

What was the Potsdam Conference?

He administered the Nazi’s “Final Solution”

Who was Reinhard Heydrich?

Hitler was convinced the Western powers had no intention of using force to maintain the Treaty of Versailles

True

President Truman believed that using atomic weapons on Japan would enable the United States to avoid the heavy casualties an invasion would produce.

True

During the Holocaust, nearly two out of every three European Jews were killed

True

Hitler’s theory that the bombing of civilian targets would force peace was proved correct

False

Hitler planned to eliminate the Jews because, in his view, they were trying to destroy the Aryans

True

The slaughter of European civilians, particularly European Jews, by the Nazis

What was the Holocaust?

The viewpoint that Truman dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima/Nagasaki because he wanted to test it on a “live” target

What was the Japanese Perspective?

Policy that initially kept the U.S. from becoming involved in the war against Germany

What was Isolationism?

Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions against U.S. warships

Who were Kamikaze pilots?

The German Air Force

What was the Luftwaffe?

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He was put in charge of Hitler’s “Germanization” process and told to remove/enslave the “inferior” Slavic peoples from the newly conquested areas

Who was Heinrich Himmler?