Honors U.S. History Bielecki- Chapter 12

• What did the Japanese military control?

  The Japanese government
• How many people did Japan kill whenever they took action?

  300,000
• What part of China did Japan invade?

  Manchuria
• Who was the emperor of Japan?

  Hirohito
• Who is the military leader of Japan?

  Hideki Tojo
• What if the Japaneses had not invaded Manchuria?

  Chiang Kai-shek would have wiped out the remaining communists.
• How many people survived the Long March?

  7,000 out of the 100,000
• What did Kuomintang do?

  Killed tens of thousands of communists
• What does KMT stand for?

  Kuomintang
• Chiang ordered a purge over who?

  CCP members
• What does CCP stand for?

  Chinese Communist Party
• Who led the CCP?

  Mao Zedong
• Who was the next president in China?

  Chiang Kai-shek
• Why did Sun Yat-sen step down?

  He had trouble maintaining order
• Who was the first president in China?

  Sun Yat-sen
• What did Sun Yat-sen establish

  The Republic of China
• Why did Sun Yat-sen overthrow the Ching Dynasty?

  China was poverty stricken and undeveloped.
• Who overthrew the Qing (Ching) Dynasty?


  Sun Yat-sen
• What did Germany use to attack ships in the Atlantic?

  Submarines
• What did the Neutrality acts allow people to do?

  The sale of some goods, but not arms to warning nations was a compromise between FDR and Congress.
• Why did Congress pass the Neutrality Acts?

  To enforce the will of the American people
• What did the Neutrality Act turn into?


  It amended allowing the U.S.- to provide weapons to nations threatened by Germany
• What were destroyed in London?

  Neighborhoods
• How many people died in London alone?

  17,500
• What was the Battle of Britain's effect on Great Britain?

  It took a heavy toll on Great Britain
• What happened at the end of the Battle of Britain?

  German retreated and said that they would come back.
• What did the British have that the Germans didn't realize?

  Radars
• What was the Britain and Germany's Air Force called?

  Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) and Germany's Air Force (Luftwaffe)
• What happened from June to October of 1940?

  The air war- Battle of Britain
• Fled to Great Britain and set up French Government in England.


  Charles de Gaulle
• What was the capital of France?

  Vichy
• What country was divided into two?

  France
• What happened in June of 1940?

  Germany invades France and seized Paris
• In 1940 who does Germany attack?


  Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg
• Why did Chamberlain get replaced?

  His troops were defeated by Germany in Norway
• Who replaces Chamberlain as British Prime Minister?

  Winston Churchill
• What happened in April of 1940?

  Germany invaded Denmark and Norway
• Imaginary line of defense fortification along the French line

  Maginot line
• Months of quiet during a war

  Phony War
• What started World War II?

  Britain and France declared war on Germany whenever Germany invaded Poland