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A World At War Chapter 22 Study Guide
1. The countries that fought the Allies in WWII were the Axis Powers.
2. To mobilize is to get ready for war.
3. A siege is a military blocking of a city to force its surrender.
4. A person who strongly believes in a cause is partisan.
5. An amphibious landing is a planned movement of troops from the sea.
6. Limiting the amount of something that each person can buy is called
rationing.
7. A prisonlike place in which people are held during a war is called an
internment camp.
8. The Holocaust was the mass murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis.
9. Genocide is the planned murder of an entire people.
10.The atomic bomb is a nuclear bomb with enormous power to harm.
11.The United States declared war on Japan because of the bombing of Pearl
Harbor.
12.During WWII, Germany and Japan fought on the side of the Axis powers.
13.Many Japanese-Americans were forced to move to internment camps.
14.The plan the Allies decided on to fight the Axis powers was to attack North
Africa first, the west coast of Europe second, and the Pacific area third.
15.The US mobilized for war by drafting more than ten million men.
16.The Americans and Filipinos on Bataan were treated brutally. They were
forced to march without food or water to a prison camp.
17.The Allied leaders decided to attack North Africa first because that is where
German forces were the weakest.
18.The Battle of Midway was the first major defeat for the Japanese.
19.More than 400 Navajos served in the US Marines as “code talkers” during
WWII.
20.Island-hopping gave American troops an opportunity to take Japanese
islands one at a time and use the islands as bases for further attacks.
21.The bombings of Tokyo in 1942 were important because the Japanese
people were shocked that an enemy was attacking their homeland.
22.Americans helped on the home front in WWII by working in factories, doing
volunteer work, purchasing war bonds, and planting victory gardens.
23.Under rationing, people were given coupons. This allowed them to
purchase a certain amount of goods.
24.Americans could earn extra rationing stamps by turning in leftover grease
from cooking. These fats were used to make explosives.
25.The war changed the lives of American women: they enjoyed a new sense
of freedom and importance. Women filled factory jobs and served in the
armed forces.
26.D-Day the Allied soldiers landed on the coast of Normandy in northern
France. This was the start of the Allied invasion of Europe.
27.The Germans surrendered when Berlin was captured and German cities
were destroyed.
28.Hitler started the Holocaust because he wanted to rid Germany of all the
Jews and other people whom he considered to be “undesirable”.
29.The US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
30.President Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
31.African Americans and Latinos fought two battles, one against prejudice
and the other against the Axis powers.
32.The dictator of Germany was Hitler.
33.The dictator of Italy was Mussolini.
34.The Axis powers were Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Finland, Bulgaria,
and Romania.
35.The Allies were England, France, Italy, and the US.
36.Winston Churchill, a British leader, tried to warn Europe of the danger
Hitler presented.
37.In 1942, Japanese Americans were forced into Internment Camps. The US
government was afraid they were spies.
38.President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office for 4 terms. He was president
during WWII.
39.When Hitler invaded Poland, England and France declared war on
Germany.
40.V-E Day stands for Victory in Europe.