Potpourri
Allies are trapped in this French port city by German troops during the Battle of France
Dunkirk
Surprise attack with fast moving airplanes and tanks followed by massive infantry
Blitzkrieg
France and Britain declare war on Germany because?
Germany attacks Poland
How did the Lend-Lease Act benefit the U.S.A.?
U.S. was able to get more $ bettering it’s economy
Reasons Hitler wanted Poland…
Wanted to connect Germany and wanted Danzig
What was the importance of the Battle of Midway
Turned the tide of the war in favor of the U.S.A.
What was FDR talking about in his speech, “a date which will live in infamy?”
Pearl Harbor
Who was forced on the Bataan Death March?
Allied soldiers
Who came up with the idea of “Island Hopping?”
General Douglas MacArthur
What did the U.S do after Japan began its conquest of the Pacific?
Cut off oil shipments to Japan
This happened during Kristallnacht…
Nazi’s attack Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues
What was Hitler’s Final Solution?
A program of genocide
This was the largest death camp
Auschwitz
This is the systematic killing of an entire people.
Genocide
This term was declared a “master race” by the Nazi’s
Aryans
This was the last offensive of the German army
Battle of the Bulge
Name two things that civilians did during WWII
Scrap metal drives, rationing, working in war industry
Why were Japanese put into internment camps?
They were falsely labeled as enemies
Where were the atomic bombs dropped
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What 2 things led to the defeat of Germans in Stalingrad?
Russian winter and Russian troops
This was code-named Operation Overlord
D-Day
These were Japanese suicide pilots
Kamikaze
This was addressed by the Nuremberg Trials
The Holocaust
This person was nicknamed the Desert Fox
General Erwin Rommel
This person headed the allied invasion of Normandy
General Dwight Eisenhower