WH Chapters 26 and 27

Hitler demanded, and was given, what area in northwestern Czechoslovakia?

• Slovakia
• Danzig
• Serbia
• Sudetenland

Two days after Hitler’s invasion of ____, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

• Poland
• Austria
• France
• Slovakia

Hitler’s blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” was

• a new form of warfare that used airplanes exclusively for the first wave of attack.
• a form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks.
• a strategy in which armies rested very little between attacks to wear the enemy down more quickly.
• an air force strategy that combined jets and helicopters in a single attack.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese

• launched a full-scale invasion of Southern China.
• attacked the British colony on the Bataan Peninsula.
• launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
• invaded Alaska

What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

• the Battle of Iwo Jima
• the Battle of Dunkirk
• the Battle of the Coral Sea
• the Battle of Midway Island

In order to address labor shortages during the war, Japan

• developed robots.
• allowed women to hold jobs from which they had previously been banned.
• brought in Korean and Chinese laborers
• forced workers to work double and sometimes even triple shifts.

At the Tehran Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill agreed

• to establish a League of Nations organization after the war.
• to defeat Germany and then unite against China.
• to end the League of Nations mandates over the Middle Eastern countries.
• to a partition of postwar Germany.

At the Potsdam Conference, Truman demanded ____ throughout Eastern Europe.

• a joint British-Russian military presence
• freely elected governments
• the reestablishment of the pre-war national boundaries
• widespread demilitarization

Great Britain’s policy of ____ toward Germany was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe.

• firm resistance
• detente
• appeasement
• Anschluss

Neville Chamberlain boasted that the Munich Conference meant

• Great Britain had made Germany back down.
• “peace for our time.”
• Germany and Russia were allies.
• “safety for Mother England.”