History Ch.14 Sec.2

Front 1

battle between Germany and GB/USSR who uses the U.S. for supplies, many ships are sunk, such as the Rueben James, by wolf packs and the use of radar and sonar, the German code is broken by the British

Back 1

Battle of the Atlantic

Front 2

name for German submarines used in wolf packs attacking boats with supplies from the U.S.

Back 2

u-boat

Front 3

ships and planes, which had more fire power to find and destroy u-boats

Back 3

convoys

Front 4

prison camps created by FDR's executive order 9066, where Japanese-Americans are sent to make sure they aren't spies

Back 4

internment camps

Front 5

German and Italian force in Africa led by German general Erwin Rommel against the British in the north

Back 5

Afrika Korps

Front 6

general aka "desert fox" that leads the Afrika Korps

Back 6

Erwin Rommel

Front 7

British general that fights against Erwin Rommel in N. Africa

Back 7

General Bernard Montgomery

Front 8

turning point of the war, when the British defeat Germany and Italy

Back 8

Battle of El Alamein

Front 9

American general leading the allies that use the pincer strategy to defeat the Germans and Italians

Back 9

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Front 10

Nazi army's unsuccessful attempt to capture Leningrad in the USSR

Back 10

Siege of Leningrad

Front 11

Hitler needs to take oil fields in caucusus mts and Stalingrad because it is an industrial city named after Stalin, USSR wins in a fight to death with Germany

Back 11

Battle of Stalingrad

Front 12

USSR marshal that led the Soviet Union in an attack against the axis powers

Back 12

Georgy Zhukov

Front 13

general that takes the Philippines from the U.S.

Back 13

General Douglas MacArthur

Front 14

the Japanese lead wounded troops on a march, which kills them because of the conditions they are in.

Back 14

Bataan Death March

Front 15

battle when America uses aircrafts and wins, prohibiting Japan from invading Africa

Back 15

Battle of Coral Sea

Front 16

battle between Asia and Pearl Harbor when Japan can't invade the United States after losing 4 aircrafts

Back 16

Battle of Midway

Front 17

American admiral, who planned a defense that overcame the Japanese in firepower after breaking Japanese code

Back 17

Chester Nimitz

Front 18

plan by allies to take some island and surround the rest until they became weak

Back 18

island hopping

Front 19

battle in the pacific that represented the first allied counter attack against the Japanese, allied victory forced Japanese forces to abandon the island

Back 19

Battle of Guadalcanal

Front 20

battle of the Philippines using kamikazes, won by the allies

Back 20

Battle of Leyte

Front 21

Japanese pilots who loaded planes with explosives and deliberately crashed into allied ships, aka "divine wind"

Back 21

kamikazes