World War II Quiz
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- land acquired by Germany through the Munich Pact, part of Czechoslovakia
- Sudetenland
- policy practiced by Britain and France, basically giving into aggression of Germany
- Policy of Appeasement
- Pan-American Union declares united opposition to foreign intervention and aggression
- Declaration of Lima
- non-aggression pact between Germany and the USSR
- Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
- Pan-American Union establishes a 300-1000 mile Safety Zone around the Americas
- Declaration of Panama
- line of mobilization inside Germany along the border with France
- Siegfried Line
- line of mobilization inside France along the border with Germany
- Maginot Line
- "the sitting war" between Germany and France
- Sitzkrieg
- commune in Northern France that was evacuated by the allies
- Dunkirk
- government in France controlled by the Nazis
- Vichy Government
- head of Vichy Government
- Henri Petain
- legitimate French government located in Britain
- Free French Government
- head of Free French Government
- Charles DeGaulle
- Germanys plan to invade and encircle Britain
- Battle of Britain
- German air forces
- Luftwaffe
- British air force
- RAF
- Colonies in Western Hemisphere were in danger of Nazi occupation would immediately be under control of American Republics
- Act of Havana
- reinforced existing laws to check for aliens, made it illegal to advocate overthrow of the US government
- Alien Registration Act
- first peacetime draft
- Burke Wadsworth Act
- undeclared naval war between US and Germany
- Battle of the Atlantic
- FDR and Churchill agree to the four freedoms (speech, worship, want, fear)
- Atlantic Charter Meeting
- this person said "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few"
- Winston Churchill
- supreme commander of Japan's combined fleets, mastermind of Pearl Harbor attack
- Yamamoto
- commander of fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor
- Nagumo
- American admiral in charge of Pearl Harbor
- Admiral Husband Kimmel
- general in charge of Pearl Harbor
- General Walter Short
- secretary of Navy who said that the American Navy was second to none
- Frank Knox
- first place in Pearl Harbor that was attacked
- Hickam Field
- first ship to sink in the battleship row of Pearl Harbor
- USS Oklahoma
- ship in Pearl Harbor that sustained the greatest number of casualties
- USS Arizona
- only ship able to get under way at Pearl Harbor
- USS Nevada
- Journalist, wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"
- William Shirer
- Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic (Opposed Hitler), bullied by Hitler into signing an agreement to bring Austrian Nazis into his Government
- Kurt von Schusnigg
- British Conservative politician, Prime Minister of the UK, known for appeasement
- Neville Chamberlain
- French radical politician, Prime Minister of France
- Edouard Daladier
- British conservative politician, against the Munich Pact
- Winston Churchill
- Union between Austria and Germany
- Anschluss
- Agreement permitted the Nazi German annexation of Czech's Sudetenland
- Munich Pact
- a lightning war
- blitzkrieg
- Poem written by Auden about the outbreak of WWII
- September 1, 1939
- Republican nominee against FDR in 1940
- Wendell Wilkie
- Emperor of Japan, thought of as "god-like"
- Emperor Hirohito
- Mutual defense treaty between Japan, Germany, and Italy. Nations became known as the Axis powers. Wanted to keep the US out of war
- Axis Tripartite Pact
- Part of lend-lease, legal cover for the US to aid the British against Germany without violating the Neutrality Act
- Destroyer Deal
- Propaganda slogan used by FDR in fireside chat, promised to help UK fight Germany without getting involved because they were financially capable of creating the weapons
- Arsenal of Democracy
- Replaced "cash an carry", president could lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the US"
- Lend-Lease
- Groups of 15-20 German U-Boats patrolling shipping lanes for cargo ships
- Wolf Packs
- typewriter-like contraption for encoding and decoding messeges
- enigma
- operation to crack the Germans Enigma code
- ultra
- Bombing of London by Germany, 9 months, 60,000 killed, won by RAF
- Blitz