Spiers chapter 31

Who won the Spanish Civil War?

Nationalists

2. Which of the following areas did Hitler make a part of Germany before invading Poland?

All of the above

3. Where were 300,000 Allied soldiers successfully evacuated from before the fall of France? -

Dunkirk

What was the result of the Battle of Britain?

Germany failed to capture Great Britain

What major factor bogged down the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941?

Cold weather

What was the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere?

Plan to rid Asia of European rule and replace it with Japanese rule

Which battle was the turning point in World War II on the Eastern Front?

Stalingrad

When did Italy surrender to the Allies

1943

When did Germany surrender to the Allies?

May 1945

When did Japan surrender to the Allies?

August 1945

Sanctions

Measures designed to stop trade and other economic contacts

Appeasement

Granting concessions to maintain peace

Munich Conference

Failed attempt to prevent war and appease Hitler

Blitzkrieg

German lighting war

Blitz

German series of air raids in Britain

Scorched-earth policy

Destroy anything of use to the enemy

Genocide

Deliberate and planned killing people based on race, politics, or culture

Kamikazes

Japanese suicide pilots, deliberately crashed their airplanes into Allied ships

Partisans

Resistance fighters

Puppet government

A state in which the leader is a figurehead and another power is making the decisions, Ex. Slovakia during World War II