World History Chapter 17 – Flashcards
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Why did Japan seize Manchuria and North China?
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to obtain natural resouces
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What were President Truman's goals in dropping the atomic bombs
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to kill thousand of Japanese people
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Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a crushing defeat for Germany?
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they lost the German 6th Army, the best fighters in their army
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What event caused the US to get involved in WW2?
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the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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What did the second front on the beaches at Normandy in France allow the Allies to do?
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attack Germany from the west at the same time as the east
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Why didn't Hitler increase armaments production early in the war?
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he wanted to keep the moral of the people up
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What was a direct result of the decision to drop the atomic bombs?
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millions of Japanese deaths
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What happened to Germany after it surrendered to the Allies?
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they were tried for crimes against humanity
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Why was Iwo Jima important to the Allies?
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it had two airfields used by the Japanese
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What organization was created as a result of WW2?
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the United Nations
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What was the purpose of bombing cities in WW2?
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countries believed it would force rival countries to surrender
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What did the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki cause?
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the war in the Pacific to end
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What did Japan do to address labor shortages during the war?
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they hired Korean and Chinese laborers
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Why did citizens of the Soviet Union experience severe food and housing shortages?
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all resources went into the war economy
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What were the results of the Battle of Britian?
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the British air force rebuilt it's strength
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The Allies agreed to fight the Axis powers until what happened?
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the Axis powers surrendered unconditionally
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Why was the US experience different from that of other major powers?
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they weren't fighting on their own territory
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Why did the US carry out an island hopping campaign?
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to get close enough to mainland Japan to take over
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Why did Hitler want to dominate other countries?
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he believed Germany was superior to every other country
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What did Churchill compare postwar Soviet policy in Eastern Europe to?
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an iron curtain
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Hitler demanded and was given what area in northwestern Czechoslovakia?
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Danzig
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What did Japan claim its New Order in Asia would do?
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help Asian countries become prosperous
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define sanctions
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restrictions intended to enforce intentional law
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define demilitarized
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no weapons or fortifications permitted
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define Rome-Berlin Axis
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alliance between Mussolini and Hitler
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define Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
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agreement between Hitler and Stalin
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define appeasement
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satisfying reasonable demands in exchange for peace
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define Auschwitz
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Hitler's largest extermination center in Poland
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define Final Solution
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genocide of the Jewish people
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define genocide
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the deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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define ghettos
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a district in a city in which Jews were required to live
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define Reinhard Heydrich
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had the task of administering the Final Solution
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Austria and Czechoslovakia
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the two counties Hitler occupied without opposition from France and Britain
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define Manchuria
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an area Japan took over to enlarge their empire
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define New Order
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Hitler's planned reorganization of Europe under Nazi rule
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define annex
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append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document
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define second front
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Stalin desired for US to create this, would distract Germans from the fighting in Russia, declined by FDR twice before D-Day
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define home front
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the civilian population and activities of a nation whose armed forces are engaged in war abroad
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define anti-semitism
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hostility to or prejudice against Jews
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define warm water ports
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a port where the water does not freeze in wintertime
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define Pearl Harbor
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the bombing of this brought the US into WW2
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What two countries did Hitler occupy without opposition from France and great Britain
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Austria and Czechoslovakia
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Hitler was confident that the Western states had signed the Treaty of Versailles would
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not mobilize their militaries to enforce it
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Why did Germany attack it's former ally, the Soviet Union
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fear they would support Britain
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Japan claimed it created the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere to
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liberate parts of Southeast Asia from Western colonial rule
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Germany ruled some area such as Poland through direct annexation, but most of occupied Europe was run by German officials with
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local collaborators
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The Germans increased their workforce by
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using citizens from conquered countries
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How did Japan control its occupied territories?
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through the Army General Staff in Tokyo
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Prisoners of war and local peoples in Southeast Asia affected the Japanese war machine by
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submitting to forced labor
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The Allies liberated Paris, crossed the Rhine, and met the Soviets at the Elbe River, and the Soviets reoccupied the Ukraine, the Baltics, and Warsaw as well as southern states illustrates what
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This illustrates the Allied powers surrounding Germany from all sides
