World War II Key Events and Concepts

The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

The desire to create an economically self-sufficient empire drove Japanese foreign policy in the 1930s. China, divided by civil war, seemed an easy target, and the Japanese attacked and conquered the province of Manchuria ni 1931. In 1937, the Japanese widened their attacks in China, committing appalling atrocities in places like _______ ,

• Guam

• Malaysia

• Wake Island

• Nanking

• Hong Kong

The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

The Japanese seizure of ________ _______ proved to be the last straw for the Roosevelt administration. nI the summer of 1941 the president ended the sale of oil ot Japan, froze Japanese assets in the United States, and prohibited Japanese ships from using the Panama Canal.

• French Polynesia

• French Indochina

• Dutch West Indies

• American Guan

• England's Hong Kong

Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

Over the years, a few revisionist historians have argued that President Roosevelt was aware of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but he allowed it to happen as a way of overcoming opposition to American intervention in the war...but they assumed that it would be aimed at the ______ or ________

• Dutch

• French

• Chinese

• British

The War Against Germany
Between January and August 1942, German submarines sank over 500 ships. Eventually, a combination of effective anti-submarine tactics and increasingly effective technology, including _____, enabled the Allies to win the Battle of the Atlantic.

• Radar

• sonar

• Minesweeping

• air surveillance

American infantrymen first saw combat in North Africa. The American and British invaded French North Africa in late

• 1900

• 1939

• 1943

• 1942