Mr. Haskell
E-core history
3 May 2004
WORLD WAR II STUDY GUIDE
CH. 31
Please write two meaningful sentences that are related to each of the following terms. One can be a definition and the other an example or two of the terms relevance from the text. This discipline insures that you have improved comprehension and command of the material. (Remember to double space between terms for easier viewing).
CH. 31
Appeasement- This was giving into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace. This is what western democracies adopted to take care of Hitler.
Blitzkrieg- This was actually called lightning war. Hitler developed it as a war tactic to use against the allies and any other sort of threat.
Cold war- This was time when tensions were high for the European countries and the western powers. Not one bullet was fired but it was a horrendous time for all citizens.
Collaborator- These were people that helped the Nazis hunt down the Jews. This was only one of the strategies that Hitler used to try and wipe out the Jewish race.
Containment (policy)- This limited the amount of communism practiced in soviet nations. It derived from the Truman Doctrine.
Genocide- This is the extermination of a race. This occurred with the Jews ion the Holocaust.
Kamikaze- These were Japanese pilots who basically were suicide bombers who would crash their planes into American targets. This was one of Japan�s last resorts in the war.
Pacifism- This is opposition to all war. This pushed the governments to begin to hate war even more than ever and to seek peace at any price.
Winston Churchill- This man was the prime minister after Neville Chamberlain. He was considered the best man to stop the Nazi army from advancing.
Francisco Franco- This man started a very bloody civil war in 1936. His forces were considered nationalists.
Dwight Eisenhower- This man took control of the forces in Morocco and Algeria. While combining with the British forces he defeated Rommel�s army in 1943.
Haile Selassie- He fought against Mussolini when he was king of Ethiopia. The League of Nations voted sanctions against his country for its defiance.
Harry Truman- This is the man who was president of the U.S. during WWII. He declared war on Japan and ordered the drop of the atomic bomb.
Dunkirk- This was where retreating allied forces were tramped between the advancing German forces and the English Channel. It was considered a miracle because the entire naval fleet was sent and they miraculously saved 300,000 men despite heavy German air attacks.
El Alamein- This was the last stand for the allies in WWII. This was where the axis powers finally were turned around and Rommel�s advance was stopped.
Guernica- This attack by the Nazis was a test to see what their new planes were capable of. This was a new sight of modern warfare for the entire world.
Hiroshima- This was where the first atomic bomb was dropped. On August 6, 1945 70,000 people were killed while flattening 4 square miles.
Nagasaki- This was where the second atomic bomb was dropped. 40,000 people were killed when the bomb landed.
Pearl Harbor- This was the Japanese attack on the American Naval Fleet. This attack was considered the beginning of WWII in the pacific for the United States.
Operation Barbarossa- This was the conquest of the Soviet Union that Hitler started. The Germans seemed sure to win after taking each Soviet state day by day but when the winter came temperatures dropped immensely and many of the German soldiers froze to death.
D-Day- This was the allied invasion of Normandy. It was the largest full scale invasion in history.
Battle of Midway- The allied victory of this battle greatly weakened the Japanese naval fleet. After this battle The American forces took offensive.
Holocaust- This was the campaign against the Jews to wipe them all out. Many Jewish women and children lost their lives at the hands of Hitler during this time.
Cold War rivals (which nations)- Stalin wanted to spread communism throughout the land. After pushing the Germans away he tried to get the west to accept communist ideas.
Francisco Franco- This man started a very bloody civil war in 1936. His forces were considered nationalists.
Benito Mussolini- He wanted to use modern military to pursue imperialistic ambitions. In 1935 he invaded Ethiopia and using his more up to date weaponry it wasn�t hard.
Adolph Hitler- This was the Totalitarian ruler who took over Germany and persecuted the Jews. His beliefs and racists thoughts spread all through Europe and through the minds of all the people.
Tojo Hideki- This man was an extreme militarist who was slowly gaining power in Asia. The men and omen that followed him did not want peace and only wanted to take all the land in Asia.
Neville Chamberlin- This man told cheering crowds that he had achieved �peace for our time.� He was the British Prime Minister who declared that the munich pact had save Czechoslovakia.
Franklin Roosevelt- This man was part of the Big Three with Stalin and Churchill. He first agreed to finish the war against the Nazis before starting the fight against the Japanese.
Stalingrad- This was the one major battle the Soviet Union fought against the Nazis. The main goal was to recapture Red Square and earn back their motherland.
Explain 2 reasons why the US used the atomic bomb against Japan.- By using the atomic bomb it would save millions of American lives by not having to send them in for an invasion where they could die. Another reason Truman chose this was that it seemed as an easy way to end the war quick and efficiently.