World War II Quiz
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 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 |
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