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 is the decision to give into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep peace.  Western democracies did this for s while during Hitler’s ruling. 

 

blitzkrieg : A blitzkrieg is a very fast war that is compared to lightning.  Hitler showed off his power by going into Poland and completely destroying it in any way imaginable. 

 

cold war: The cold war was a war fought after the world war.  This war was mainly caused by the tensions of all the countries having small little allied groups together. 

 

Collaborator: These were countries like France who helped Hitler find some of the Jews.  While some countries were safe to run away to some where not because they were collaborators.

 

containment (policy): This is the policy of limiting communist to areas the Soviet already control.  This was the main idea that the Truman doctrine was rooted in. 

 

genocide: This is the destruction of an entire group of people such as a race of people.  This is what Hitler tried to accomplish and came actually very close to. 

 

kamikaze: This is the act of pilots doing suicide missions by crashing into things.  This was one of the ways that Japan  was trying to save their homeland, by crashing into American war ships. 

 

pacifism: Pacifism is the belief in total peace.  Britain and France saw Hitler as destroying or at least limiting the power of the Soviet Union so they became pacifists and had nothing to do with the war. 

 

Winston Churchill: Churchill was a great leader in war against Hitler.  He believed that since the Nazi’s were choosing dishonor they would be brought down by war, and he was correct the Nazi’s were brought down by war. 

 

Francisco Franco: Francisco Franco was a great Latin leader in the war.  He played a large part in the Latin’s part of the war. 

 

Dwight Eisenhower: He was an American leader who took charge of a Joint Anglo-American force in Morocco and Algeria during El Alamein.  He then combined with British forces to trap Rommel’s army till they surrendered. 

 

Haile Selassie:

 

Harry Truman: He was a president of the U.S who believed that communism was evil and was slowly creeping over and taking over countries.  This is the main reason that Truman wrote up the Truman Doctrine which made communist stay in the land already owned by the Soviet.

 

Dunkirk:

 

El Alamein: In Egypt a British general finally stopped Rommel’s advance.  They turned the tables on the Desert Fox driving the Axis forced back across Libya and Tunisia. 

 

Guernica:

 

Hiroshima: This is the first place where the U.S dropped a bomb on Japan.  This bomb killed over 700,000 people and killed more afterwards because of radiation. 

 

Nagasaki: When Japan did not respond to the first bomb the U.S decided to drop another.  This time the bomb was dropped in Nagasaki killing around 400,000 people and more to come. 

 

Pearl Harbor: This was the short battle between the U.S and Japan.  The U.S was attacked so instead of risking thousands of American lives the president at the time just decided to drop a bomb on Japan.  Actually one more was dropped when Japan did not respond.  

 

Operation Barbarossa: This was the operation ran by Hitler to take over the Soviet.  His main reason he did this was to get German soldiers more living space. 

 

D-Day: D-day stands for Doom’s Day which will probably happen way in the future.  This is where there is a gigantic war and everyone or at least almost everyone is killed, but this is only a theory. 

 

Battle of Midway: This was a huge battle which occurred by the U.S-Pacific base named Midway.  This was basically a naval war between the U.S and the Japanese. 

 

Holocaust: The holocaust was the killing of millions of Jewish people.  First the Nazi armies would make them work and do labor till they could do no more, and this wasn’t the worst of things, but after they could work no more the Jews were killed by a number of ways. 

 

Cold War rivals (which nations): The cold war rivals were between the U.S, the Soviet, Russia, the Red Army, and Berlin.  This is only a number of the countries that were involved.

 

Francisco Franco:

 

Benito Mussolini: Mussolini was a bad Italian leader that was overthrown.  Hitler liked him so he sent people to go rescue Mussolini. 

 

Adolph Hitler: Adolph Hitler was a very strong, power hungry leader who ruled all of the Germans.  Hitler killed millions of Jewish people from all over the country and then some.  Hitler was trying top take out Jewish race basically. 

 

Tojo Hideki: While the U.S and Japan were trying to work thing out between one another and ease the tension, extreme men with power like Tojo decided that they were going to attack the U.S.  Tojo was a Japanese military officer who ordered to attack Pearl Harbor. 

 

Neville Chamberlin: Neville Chamberlin was the prime minister of Britain at the time.  He was actually replaced by Winston Churchill. 

 

Franklin Roosevelt: He was the president during the times of the great depression.  He started things like welfare which are but shouldn’t be still around for today. 

 

Stalingrad: Stalin was a man who was an extreme communist in Russia with many Marxist views.  He tortured and killed millions of people and is basically compared to Hitler today. 

 

Explain 2 reasons why the US used the atomic bomb against Japan.- The U.S first used a bomb on Japan because that way they would not have to send Americans in to kill.  Second was because using a bomb could have potentially saved more lives, instead of American and Japanese lives being lost, it could only be Japanese.