APWH Chapter 37 – Flashcards
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World War II began with
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Japan's attacks on China in the 1930's
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The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at
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The Rape of Nanjing
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The Guomindang during World War II was
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Kept alive by moving inland to Chongquin; Chinese communists carried on guerilla operations against the Japanese invaders
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The Tripartite Pact brought together
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Japan, Germany and Italy
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The German and Italian fascists used which war as an excuse to intervene and gain valuable military experience?
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The Spanish war
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The weakness of the League of Nations was revealed in its inability to take any substantial action in response to the Italian invasion of
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Ethiopia
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Adolf Hitler always spoke of the "November crime" which was the
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Signing of the 1918 armistice
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In 1938, Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss?
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Austria
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The high point of appeasement was
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The Munich Conference
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In the wake of the Munich Conference, what leader proposed that the meeting had ensured "peace in our time"?
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Neville Chamberlain: Britain's prime minister
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While the Nazi-Soviet Pact was on the surface a nonaggresion treaty, it had secret stipulations that spelled out
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German control of Western Poland and Lithuania while the Soviet Union gained a free hand in the territories of Easter Poland
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The European part of World War II began with the
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Unannounced German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939
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The German blitzkrieg referred to
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"Lightning war"
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After the fall of France in 1940, the only country left to fight Germany was
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Britain
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In the Battle of Britain the Germans hoped to defeat the English
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Solely through their air attacks: "The Blitz"
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Operation Barbarossa was
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The code name for the June invasion of the Soviet Union-took red army by surprise. By December 1941, Germans had captured the Russian heartland
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Hitler's comment "You only have to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come down" was a reference to which of the following powers?
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Soviet Union
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By December 1941, the Soviets gained two new allies in their struggle to defeat the German invasion of their country: "General Winter" and
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The United States
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The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was
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To destroy American naval capacity in the Pacific and clear the way for the conquest of southeast Asia and the creation of a defensive Japanese perimeter that could defend the homeland
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"Asia for Asians" was the slogan of the
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Japanese
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The Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was designed by
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Japan
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The key to the Allied victories in Europe and Asia was
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The entry of the Soviet Union and the United States into war
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The first large-scale defeat for German forces in World War II was
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When the Soviets won the Battle for Stalingrad; pushed the German invaders out of Russian territory
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The Normandy Invasion
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On June 6, 1944 (D-day) overwhelmed the Germans and changed the war towards the Allies winning
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The US victory in the Pacific that turned the tide against the Japanese was
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The Battle at Midway
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The US secret weapon in the Pacific campaign was
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A code-breaking operation known as Magic, which enabled a cryptographer monitoring Japanese radio frequencies to discover the plan to attack Midway
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In the Battle of Okinawa the Japanese introduced
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Kamikaze pilots who volunteered to be suicide pilots
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During the Battle of Okinawa
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The Japanese flew 1900 kamikaze missions and killed more than 5000 US soldiers
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The Japanese finally surrendered in August 1945 when
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The US used the atomic bomb against Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet Union declared war on Japan
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The Vichy government
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Was a puppet government in France
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After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich,
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The Nazis eliminated the entire village of Lidice as punishment
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At the Wannsee Conference,
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15 leading Nazi bureaucrats gathered to discuss the final solution-agreed to evacuate all Jews from Europe to camps in Poland
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The man who coined the term "genocide" was
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Raphael Lemkin-a refugee Polish-Jewish lawyer living in the US
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The term "genocide" was coined to refer to the systematic killings of which of the following?
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A national, ethnic, racial or religious groups
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The largest of the Nazi death camps was
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Auschwitz
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Around how many million people perished during World War II?
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52,700,000
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One of the biggest arguments among the Allies in World War II was
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That the US and Britain were letting the Soviets gets beat by the Germans on purpose and not grabbing the "nose" of the alligator fast enough
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The US interventionist plan for containing communism was known as the
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Truman Doctrine
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The Marshall Plan was
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Proposed to rebuild European economies through cooperation and capitalism to forestall communist influence in devastated nations
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COMECON was
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The Soviet Union counterpart to the Marshall Plan that offered an alternative by offering increased trade. "Council for Mutual Economic Assistance"
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NATO was designed to
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Maintain peace in postwar Europe through collective defense
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At a meeting of fifty nations in San Francisco in 1945,
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The final version of the UN charter was hammered out
