Guts and Glory Chapter 1-7

Intro: The Introduction was mainly about...

• Hitler's rise to power
• The Impact of World War II
• Why the Author wrote the book
•  a short summary of the entire book.

Ch1: Why did the Chinese command tell Colonel Xie to hold the warehouse at Sihang at all costs if they knew the city of Shanghai was lost?

• to get the civilians to safety
• to show the Japanese that the Chinese would not bow to them
• to stall for reinforcements
• The warehouse was full of valuable weapons that they didn't want Japan to have.

Ch 1: What did the Chinese do to show their defiance of the Japanese toward the end of the Battle for Sihang warehouse?

• They hoisted the Chinese flag on the warehouse they were defending.
• they started shouting profanity at the Japanese
• They fought harder than ever
• They blew up the bridge.

Ch 2: Which of the following best sums up the German principle of "Blitzkrieg"?

• hit the enemy hard with coordinated attacks to overpower them quickly
• Slowly wear the enemy down with continue attacks while holding reserves.
• The leader charges out in front of everyone to inspire the rest of the army.
• dig into trenches and make the enemy come to you.

Ch 2: What is a Swastika?

• The Nazi symbol that looks like a crooked cross.
• a special type of German tank.
• An advanced Japanese fighter.
• A special group of German commandos

Ch 3: What kept Hitler's war machine from launching a land invasion on Britain after France fell?

• The Royal Air Force would have destroyed the German transports in the English Channel
• The British were friendly to the Germans
• The Germans were afraid it would bring America into the war.
• They moved so fast that they had to wait for supplies to catch up.

Ch 3: How did British women contribute to the battle of Britain?

• They analyzed info and coordinated the Royal Air Force to intercept the German bombers.
• They grew extra crops in their back yards
• they looked for German spies in the cities.
• They wrote letters to the soldiers to keep their morale up.

Ch 4:Why did Hitler decide to launch Operation Barbarosa if the Soviets had already signed a non-aggression pact with them?

• They hated communism
• Their spies told them the Soviets were planning to invade them.
• They needed the Soviet lands for farming
• They were trying to make an example to keep the Americans out of the war.

Ch 4: The German invasion of the Soviet Union was going well for Germany at first, what stopped the German advance into Russia?

• The harsh Russian Winter
• They ran out of soldiers
• The Soviets won several key battles that pushed the Germans back.
• Joseph Stalin worked out a peace deal with the Germans.

Ch 4: Which of the following is a type of government where the political system has complete control over their people?

• Totalitarianism
• Democracy
• Communism
• Theocracy