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98 Cards in this Set

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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
NAACP lawyer
Thurgood Marshall
ended school segregation
Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
bringing races together
integration
upheld segregation laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
prominent labor leader
Philip Randolph
enforced Brown vs. Board of Education
Dwight Eisenhower
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Pakrs
attended UCLA
Jackie Robinson
fovernor of Arkansas
Orval Faubus
The islands of Wake and Guam were American bases taken by the Japanese early int he war
True
The Allied troops defending Bataan surrendered to the Germans
False
The Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway occurred in 1942
True
The atomic bomb was tested in Manhattan
False
JAmes "Jimmy" Doolittle was famously remembered for piloting the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
False
The Allied commander in teh Philippines was
Douglas MacArthur
The first major Japanese defeat wsa the
Battle of Midway
What was the biggest battle in naval history in which most of the Japanese fleet was destroyed in 1944?
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Whose warning prompted FDR to begin working ont he atomic bomb?
Albert Einstein
What was important about capturing Guam in 1944?
The use of its airfield
What victory prevented the Germans from capturing the Suez Canal?
El Alamein
For 900 days the Germans surrounded
Leningrad
Dwight D. Eisenhower landed his Allied troops on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944, also known as
D-Day
Who became president in 1945?
Harry S. Truman
Which of the following event is an example of genocide
the Holocaust
Which of the following is not part of Italy?
Normandy
Who was known as the "Desert Fox" for his success in desert warfare?
Erwin Rommel
Which of the following were European cities liberated by the allies in 1944?
Rome and Paris
The battles described in section 26.4 took place mostly in :
North Africa, Italy, France and Russia
Whose troops surrounded Berlin near the end of the war?
Soviet
Hitler was able to gain the support of the German people because of their anger over the Versailles treaty
True
Many Japanese felt that the solution to Japan's economic problems was to expand Japan's control in Asia
True
The Japanese invaded neighboring countries in Asia during teh 1930s while Hitler invaded his neighbors in Europe
True
The attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in Congress declaring war on Japan
True
During the Battle of the Bulge, Allied forces sent forces deep into Germany, creating a bulge in German lines
False
American Troops were forced to retreat to the rugged Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines
True
Concentration camps are prison camps for civilians
True
The islands of Wake and Guam were American bases taken by the Japanese early int he war
True
The Allied troops defending Bataan surrendered
True
Hitler was a Communist
False
The Battle of the Coarl Sea and the Battle of Midway occured in 1942
True
With over one million men fighting, the Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle on the Eastern Front in Europe
False
Chester Nimitz ordered the American carrier force to ambush the Japanese at Midway
True
The USS Enterprise survived both the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Coral Sea
True
The U.S. bombing strrategy that killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians was used to avoid hundreds of thousands of American troops being killed ina full-scale invasion of Japan
True
The Italian form of government built on exteme nationalism and racism was
facism
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during Wrold War II?
Joseph Stalin
The Soviet German Non-Agression Pact freed Adolp Hitler to invade
Poland
Which country was the first to use the Lend-Lease Act?
Great Britain
Where was the wrst defeat in the United States' military history?
Pearl Harbor
Ther German general in command of North Africa was
Erwin Rommel
Douglas MacARthur was the commander of the Allied forces in
the Pacific
Which country was not part of the Allied Powers?
Germany
What country was not part of the Axis Powers?
United States
Who was the commander of the Allied forces in Europe?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The two commanders in charge of he "island hopping" stratege were:
MacArthur and Nimitz
Adolf Hitler established a single party that suppressed oppositon, making Germany a
totalitarian state
Manchuria was invaded by
Japan
How was Sudetenland turned over to Germany?
at the Munich Conference
France and Great Britain decalred war on Germany after teh invasion of
Poland
After the collapse of Belgium in 1940, to where did allied troops retreat in order to be evacuated?
Dunkirk
After the fall of France, all that stood in the way of Adolf Hitler's domination of Europe was
Great Britain
Frustrated by his failure in Great Britain, Hitler launced an attack on
the Soviet Union
American neutrality ended after the attack on
the United States
for 900, days the Germans surrounded
Leningrad
The first major Japanese defeat was teh
Battle of Midway
What was the biggest battle in naval history?
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Which of the following was NOT a cause of World War II?
Aggressive American military operations
Artillery is a military unit consisting mostly of :
Heavy cannons
What was the string of German guns and bunkers built alonf the European coast during German occupation?
Atlantic Wall
What was Phase 1 of the D-Day invasion plan?
Paratroops land behind enemy lines
What was the most difficult and costly beach to secure during the D-Day invasion?
Omaha
Which contry's troops were NOT responsible for securing a beach in teh D-Day invasion?
France
In the Battle of the Bulge, what city did Patton's troops race to save from the Germans?
Bastogne
What were the two major 'theaters of operation" or regions where campaigns were fought between the Axis powers and the Allies in World War II?
European Theater and pacific Theater
Which battle was a battle between the RAF and the Luftwaffe?
the Battle of Britain
Which battle was the first American land offensive in the Pacific
Guadalcanal
Which battle was the last major battle in Europe, in which the Allies crused the final German offensive of the war?
the Battle of the Bulge
Which of the following was the largest invasion in history?
D-Day
Which of hte following battles was one of the last American victories in thee island hopping campaign?
Iwo Jima
Which of the following did NOT invove a beach assault?
Bastogne
In what country did Patton's troops NOT fight?
Russia
Italian Director
Mussolini
Became president in 1945
Truman
Fascist
hitler
Advised against Appeasement
Churchill
the "Desert Fox"
Rommel
responsible for Pearl Harbor
Tojo
Communist
Stalin
allied tank commander
Patton
lightning war
blitzkreig
concentration camp
Auschwitz
hatred of Jews
anti-Semitism
led to atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
pledged to defeat Hitler
Atlantic Charter
led to D-Day
Operation Overlord
favored by isolationists
Neutrality Acts
allowed Hitler to dominate Europe
appeasement