Chapter 14 Objectives

Front 1

What policy did the western democracies adopt towards the demands of Hitler in order to keep the peace?

Back 1

appeasment

Front 2

The depression and extensive what pushed the western democracies and other governments to pursue peace at any cost?

Back 2

pacifism

Front 3

The United States Congress passed a series of Neutrality Acts to prevent what?

Back 3

U.S involvement in a war in Europe

Front 4

The Nazi's found Austrians willing to listen to their message and by 1938 Hitler was ready to plot what?

Back 4

the anschluss of Austria and Germany

Front 5

In September 1939 Hitler used tanks and the Luftwaffe, struck a overwhelming blow to the Poles during what?

Back 5

Hitlers Blitzkrieg of Poland

Front 6

What was passed to aid any country whose defense the President found fundamental to the defense of the United States?

Back 6

the Lend-Lease Act

Front 7

In 1942 the Germans launched an offensive against the the Soviets seeking their oil fields in the South, but suffered a costly defeat in what?

Back 7

the Battle of Stalingrad

Front 8

Why did the Big three meet at Yalta in February 1945?

Back 8

to plan war strategy and to make agreements for Eastern Europe after the end of the war

Front 9

On August 6, 1945 where did the United States dropp an atomic-bomb on, code named 'Little Boy?"

Back 9

Hiroshima

Front 10

What city did Hitler stage mass rallies in, where the war crimes trials of Axis leaders were held?

Back 10

Nuremberg

Front 11

Why were sanctions authorized by the League of Nations against Italy?

Back 11

becasue of thier 1935 invasion of Ethiopia

Front 12

The Nazis used the Spanish Civil War to test plans and what as a precursor to World War 2?

Back 12

new weapons

Front 13

At the 1938 Munich Conference the British and French convined the______to surrender the ________

Back 13

Czechs, Sudenland

Front 14

What did the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact do?

Back 14

it gave Hitler a free hand to invade poland

Front 15

The______first attacked ground targets from the air in Hitler's_____strategy

Back 15

Luftwaffe, Blitzkrieg

Front 16

Germany invaded Poland from the west and the Soviet Union attaked from where as part of the Nazi-Soviet Pact?

Back 16

east

Front 17

In 1940 at _____ _______ forces were rescued and taken across the English Channel to safety in Britain

Back 17

Dunkirk, British

Front 18

After France's surrender Germany occupied the norht and start up a "puppet state" capital in the south where?

Back 18

Vichy

Front 19

While preparing for Operation Sea Lion what did HItler do?

Back 19

he altered the German plans and bombed London and other cities

Front 20

In 1936, what was another violation of the Treaty of Versailles?

Back 20

Hitler's movement of troops into the Rhineland

Front 21

Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union was a result of his desire for what?

Back 21

the Soviet Unions considerable resources

Front 22

During the invastion of the Soviet Union, what stalled Hitlers forces and resulted in the death of thousands of German Soldiers?

Back 22

the extreme winter of 1941

Front 23

In order to stop Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia the U.S. banned the sale of______, _______and ______to Japan triggering the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Back 23

Iron, steel, oil

Front 24

In the United states what character was a symbol for American women working in jobs that produced weapons for the war?

Back 24

"Rosie the Riveter"

Front 25

In 1942, the Big Three of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to destroy the enemy in_______before completing the task in______

Back 25

Europe, Asia

Front 26

In a late 1943 conference at Tehran, Churchill and Roosevelt acquiesced to_____and allowed the ______- ________pact borders to stand

Back 26

Stalin, Nazi-Soviet

Front 27

At the Battle of El Alamein the British defeated Rommel and then stopped the Germans and drove the Axis troops out of where?

Back 27

North Africa

Front 28

By the June1944 D-day assault the German Air Gorce was crippled by the massive Allied bombing attacks that battered German what?

Back 28

military bases, factories, oil depots, and railroads

Front 29

What was the strategy of the Island-hopping campaign?

Back 29

for Americcan forces in the Pacific to gradually move north towards Japan

Front 30

who deliberatly crashed their planes into American warships?

Back 30

Japanese Kamikaze pilots

Front 31

The bloody Battle of the Bulge, which lasted more than a month, delayed what?

Back 31

the allied advance from the west

Front 32

What was a code name for research to develop and atomic bomb?

Back 32

the Manhattan Project

Front 33

A major goal of Stalin agter World War 2 that led to the Cold War was his desire for a______or friendly governments in Eastern Europe

Back 33

buffer zone

Front 34

What was the Trueman Doctrine designed to do by limitling it to areas already under Soviet control?

Back 34

contain communism

Front 35

The offer of what by the United States and its western allies to west Germany resulted in the Soviets strenghening their hold on East Germany?

Back 35

the Marshall Plan