5th Gr. History Unit 7 Flash Cards

Pregunta	Respuesta
Prime minister of Great Britain	Winston Churchill
losing U.S. Commander in the Philippines; winner in New Guinea; military governor of Japan	Douglas MacArthur
successful U.S. field general; slapped two soldiers	George Patton
British General	Bernard Montgomery
Soviet dictator	Joseph Stalin
U.S. President who decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan	Harry S. Truman
U.S. President blamed for the Great Depression	Herbert Hoover
German dictator	Adolf Hitler
U.S. President at the beginning of World War II; New Deal	Franklin D. Rooselvelt
supreme Allied commander for the major invasions of Europe; U.S. General	Dwight D. Eisenhower
the American strategy in the Pacific was called	Island Hopping
World War II began when Germany invaded	Poland
World War II ended when the U.S. dropped _________ on Hiroshima and Nagasaki	atomic bombs
the U.S. got into World War II when ________ attacked ___________	Japan; Pearl Harbor
The Great Depression ended when _________ began	World War II
At the worst of the Great Depression, ________ out of _______ people were out of work	1 out of 4
The turning point of the war in the Pacific was at the battle for __________ Island	Midway
The big mistake made by Nazi Germany's leader during World War II was to invade __________ without preparing for winter fighting	the Soviet Union
On D-Day the allies invaded ____________	Normandy, France
The American project to build an atomic bomb was called the __________ Project	Manhatten
First naval battle in history in which the ships did not see each other was at the Battle of the __________ Sea	Coral
The murder of millions of innocent people, especially Jews, in Nazi Germany was called the ___________	Holocaust
The turning point of the war in Europe was at the battle for the city of ___________	Stalingrad
The first place invaded by the Americans in the war in Europe (Operation Torch) was ____________	North Africa
The American bombing attack on Tokyo by bombers that took off from aircraft carriers and crashed in China was called ___________ Raid	Doolittle's
The popular public works program for young men that planted trees and built roads during the Great Depression was called the ____________	Civilian Conservation Corp
The U.S. plan to give the Allies what they needed to win the war, even when the U.S. was still neutral was called ______________	Lend-Lease
The Axis nation that tried to surrender when it was first invaded, but Germany prevented it was ___________	Italy
The association of nations created after World II is called ____________	United Nations
Association of nations that could not stop aggression before World War II was the _____________	League of Nations
True/False? The American home front helped a lot in winning World War II by producing goods and supplies quickly	True
True/False? The fight to get supplies to Europe past the German submarines was called the Transport Battle	False
True/False? The U.S. was able to defend the Philippines against the Japanese for the whole war	False
True/False? Germany and the Soviet Union made a treaty in 1939 and agreed to divide Poland between themselves	True
True/False? France was conquered and most of it occupied Germany in World War II	True
True/False? The Dust Bowl was the German attack on Great Britain	False
True/False? Much of the British Army was rescued from France by hundreds of boats at Calais	False
True/False? German warfare in World War II was blitzkreig, which used speed and surprise	True
True/False? Japanese soldiers fought to the death on the Pacific Islands	True
True/False? Nothing was done to punish the leaders of Nazi Germany	False

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