US History Chapter 27

After Lenin's death, there was a struggle for power among the Communist leaders, and _______ assumed full control of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union in 1927.

This resentmen, coupled with inflation, unemployment, and other economic hardships, hardships, made the Italians receptive to _______ who marched on Rome and seized the powers of government in 1922.

Suffering from runaway inflation, widespread unemployment, and other economic hardships, the German people were eager to beleive the promises of prosperity and protection coming from socialist _________, leader of the Nazi Party

Among those who recognized the threat of renewed aggression and global war was ______.

The Nationalist Chinese government under Generalissimo ________, already engaged since 1927 in an exhasuting civil war against the Chinese Communists under ________, was forced to move its wartime capital to chungking, far up the Yangtze River.

The Chinese were greatly heartened by the arrival of American General ________ and the " Flying Tigers," an volunteer squadron of American airmen who flew sorties against the Japanese and fought them in the air against incredible odds.

Its, emperor, ______, claimed to trace his ancestry back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

One side, led by General _______, was supported by Germany and Italy.

Prime Minister _________ of Britain and Premier ________ of France flew to Munich, Germany, in the fall of 1938 to confer with Hitler and Mussolini.

The Norwegian government of King Haakon VII escaped to London, and ________, a trator, was installed as the head of the Nazi puppet government.

Hitler had the railway car in which the German surrender had been signed on November 11, 1918, exhumed from a Paris museum so the the French under ________ could surrender on the same spot in the Compienge Forest.


However, some Frenchmen escaped to Great Britain, where they organized a Free French government under the leadership of General ________.

The celebrated Afrika Korps, under the leadership of Field Marshall _______, the "Desert Fox,"reconquered all of the territory in Africa lost by the Italians to the British and began to Egypt anew.

The coming to power of an extremely militaristic army-controlled ministry in Japan under General _______ strained American and Japanese relations to the breaking point.

Responding to Winston Churchill's call for help, President Roosevelt made the war in Europe his first priority and appointed General ______________ to be the Allied commander in Europe.

While General Dwight D. Eisenhower led the American First Army eastward toward Tunis, General ________ and the British Eighth Army marched westward from Egypt to meet him.