Transcript World History Review

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Europe post WWI
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Short Answer
What are some of the reforms that happened to Japan after the war?
demilitarization, or disbanding the Japanese armed forces, allowed policed force
Constitution like Britain
Land sold to government to than be sold to tenant farmers
Allowed independent labor unions
Emperor became a figurehead, symbol of Japan, no real power
Power belonged to the people in a two house parliament called a Diet
Citizens over 20, including women had the right to vote
Had a bill of rights to protect basic freedoms
Article 9 forbade Japan from going to war
What are some problems after the War?
Paris, Rome and Brussels were undamaged but most cities were devastated
Prior to war Warsaw had 1.3 million people, when liberated by Soviets 153,000
people lived there
95 percent of Berlin was destroyed
People lived in rubble with no water, electricity or food
People were dislocated from concentration camps, prisoners of war etc. and
wondered to find families
Agriculture was disrupted, transportation systems destroyed
No supplies for people and famine and disease spread
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Section 1
What happened on September 1, 1939?
Germany invaded Poland to start WWII.
What was the French defensive line that was to keep the Germans out of France?
Maginot Line
Who was the French General that set up a government in exile in London and led
the Free French forces?
Charles de Gaulle
What was the Battle of Britain?
It was the air war between the German Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air Force
over the skies of Britain.
What document wanted to have free trade among nations and the right of people
to choose their own government?
Atlantic Charter
What term describes the German use of planes and tanks for rapid movement?
Blitzkrieg
Where did the Allied army escape from Belgium? (850 ships helped 338,000 men
to escape)
Dunkirk
Who was the Prime Minister of England who vowed not to surrender to Germany?
Winston Churchill
What is the Enigma machine?
It was a decoding machine that the Germans used, Britain had their own copy and
decoded German messages instantly.
Operation Barbarossa dealt with the German invasion of what country?
Soviet Union
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Section 2
Who helped plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor in WWII?
Isoroku Yamamoto
What was the forced march of 70,000 American POW’s was called in the
Philippines? (54,000 survived the march)
Bataan Death March
What battle was the turning point in the Pacific war?
Battle of Midway
What was the nickname given by the Japanese to Guadalcanal? Americans
called it “Hell”
Island of Death
When was Pearl Harbor attacked?
December 7, 1941
What battle was the first carrier to carrier battle? (Opposing fleets did not see
each other)
Battle of Coral Sea
Instead of taking over every island, Douglas MacArthur suggested to use what
strategy?
Island Hopping
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Section 3
What ship was turned back by the United States that contained over 900 Jewish
refugees? It was turned back because of immigration restrictions.
St. Louis
Before Jews were sent to the camps like Auschwitz they were ordered to _____ or
overcrowded areas surrounded by barbed wire and walls.
ghettos
Who was a Swedish diplomat that gave “protective passports” to thousands of
Hungarian Jews?
Roaul Wallenberg
Hitler ordered the ______ or the killing of all Jews.
Final Solution
In the book Night, Elie Wiesel was sent to what infamous extermination camp?
Auschwitz
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Section 4
The battle of German U-boats and Allied shipping in the Atlantic was known as what?
Battle of the Atlantic
Who led the Allied armies in WWII, he also led American troops in Operation Torch?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What happened to Mussolini during the war?
He was killed by Italian resistance fighters in Milan.
June 6, 1944 the beaches of ____ were attacked by the Allies. The operation was called
Operation Overlord.
Normandy
On December 16, 1944 Germany attacked the Allies at the Battle of the ____ in hopes to drive
them from Europe? It was the battle were an American commander said, “Nuts”
Bulge
What does V-E day stand for?
Victory in Europe
What battle turned the tide in North Africa? Bernard Montgomery led the British
8th Army?
Battle of El Alamein
What battle was the turning point between the Germans and Soviets?
Leningrad
What did the Americans do to Japanese during WWII?
Held the in relocations centers away from the west coast.
What slowed the Allied break out at Normandy?
Hedge Rows
What did Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun do as the Soviets closed on their
bunker?
They committed Suicide.
What does V-J day stand for?
Victory in Japan
Who carried through with his promise to the Philippine people and returned to
reconquer the Philippines for the Allies?
Douglas MacArthur
What Japanese home island attack did the Allies use to estimate the loss of life on
the attack on Japan itself?
Okinawa
Where was Japan warned about the atomic attack and Europe was divided by the
Allies?
Potsdam
Which of the following Nazi’s was popular among the guardsmen? He committed
suicide because he Herman Goring
Who or what are kamikazes?
Japanese planes that crash into ships.
What two cities had the atomic bomb dropped on?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was the war crimes trial called?
Nuremberg Trials
Who was not to be touched by the war crimes trials in Tokyo?
Hirohito
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Maps and Graphs
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Random Trivia