Review for Quiz, Holocaust and Pacific War, 2026

Coral Sea

First major naval battle; U.S. begins to shift balance it its favor:

Midway

U.S. establishes naval superiority; U.S. lays in wait and sinks four carriers:

Okinawa

bloodiest Pacific battle; last stop to prepare for mainland invasion

Iwo Jima

Location of three key airstrips; site of famous flag raising:

Meiji

emperor at center of Japanese modernization

Hirohito

emperor of Japan during WWII

Nanking

site of a massacre of Chinese civilians

Bataan

Site of a "Death March"; thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers die

Kristallnacht

nickname for a series of attacks on Jewish businesses by the Nazis

Sonderkommando

inmates with job of deposing of corpses in death camp

Einsatzgruppen

mobile Nazi killing squads

Holocaust

burn offering; term for mass extermination of Jews

Rudoph Heydrich

given task of devloping a "Final Solution" to the Jewish Question

Joseph Mengele

the "Angel of Death"; carried out medical experiments at Auschwitiz

Hans Frank

Nazi governor of Poland

Herman Goering

number two ranking Nazi; in charge of operations agains the Jews

The "Final Solution" refers to a German plan to:

exterminate all Jews in camps

The __________ Laws removed German Jews from society.

Nuremburg

The Germans considered moving all Jews to:

Madagascar

What event do many see as the "turning point" when the Nazis sped up killing operations against Jews?

the invasion of the Soviet Union

Which of the following was not the site of one of the large Nazi death camps?

Gdansk

Who or what did the Japanese use as the central point of their modernization?

the emperor

The term "bushido" referred to:

a warrior code misused by Japanese military leaders

Who was the Japanese emperor during WW

Hirohito

The daring air raid carried out in response to Pearl Harbor was known as the ____________Raid.

Doolittle

Island __________ referred to the American strategy of capturing some islands while bypassing others.

hopping

What were several actions against Jews taken prior to the Final Solution?

1,)passage of the Nuremburg Laws (excluded them from German society) 2.) Kristllnacht: attacks on Jewish buisness, smashing in windows and looting them; 3.) the proposed "Madagascar Plan"; 4.) Shootings/executions carried out in conquered territories; 5.) Mobile killing vans, created by rigging the exhaust into the car

What was island hopping?

a stragegy of bypassing more fortified islands with goal of getting closer to Japan for an invasion

Significance of the Coral Sea

the U.S. damages 2 Japanese carriers and begins to shift the war in its favor

Signifcance of Midway

a crushing victory for U.S.; establish naval superiority

Significance of Iwo Jima

a bloody battle that gave the U.S. control of 3 key air strips; also the site of a famous flag-raising

Significance of Okinawa

the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War; would have been a staging ground for invading Japanese mainland