Download History Chapter 11 Study Guide – World War II

History Chapter 11 Study Guide –
World War II
Terms to Know
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Dictator – a person who controls everything in a nation
Blitzkrieg – a fast-moving military attack; also called a lightning war
Ration – to limit on the amount of an item each person could buy
Saboteur – a person who does damage to hurt war production
Luftwaffe – the name of the German air force
Holocaust – the killing of many Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII.
Interment camp – an area where the United States government imprisoned the
American Japanese during WWII
8) Island hopping – the American strategy during WWII to reach and conquer the
Japanese islands
Allies & Leaders:
1) Great Britain – Winston Churchill
2) United States – President Franklin D. Roosevelt
3) Other nations fighting the Axis Powers
Axis Powers:
1) Germany – Adolf Hitler
2) Italy – Benito Mussolini
3) Japan – Tojo Hideki & Hirohito
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People to Know
1) Joseph Stalin – He was the dictator of the USSR.
2) Tojo Hideki – He was the general and prime minister of Japan who ran the country.
3) Chiang Kai-shek – He was the man who led the non-Communist Chinese fighters to
defend their country.
4) Mao Zedong – the other leader of China who wanted China to become Communist.
5) General Dwight D. Eisenhower – President Franklin Roosevelt made Eisenhower
the supreme Allied commander in Europe.
6) George Patton – He was the American general who pushed the Axis forces east in
North Africa.
Facts to Know
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European dictators: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin
The Jews were a group of people Hitler murdered during the Holocaust.
Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek both claimed to the leaders of China.
Great Britain and France warned Hitler to not attack Poland.
Pearl Harbor – a harbor in Hawaii where the Japanese naval and air forces attacked
the United States on December 7, 1941.
6) President Franklin Roosevelt asked the US Congress to declare war on Japan after
the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
7) Midway – a tiny island between North America and Asia that was the location of a
battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
8) Jimmy Doolittle was a US colonel who led US airmen in successfully dropping
bombs on Japan. It was called the Doolittle Raid.
9) D-Day began the Allied liberation of France.
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What was the value of American code breakers during the Battle of
Midway?
- Code breakers discovered where the Japanese ships would be, and the United
States became aware of Japan’s plan to trick them.
This is no time for Ease and
Comfort.
It is time to Dare and Endure.
~ Winston Churchill