4/26/17

Question 1

Kellogg- Briand pact

Answer 1

The Kellogg–Briand Pact (or Pact of Paris, officially General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them”.

Question 2

Ethiopia

Answer 2

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

Question 3

appeasement

Answer 3

Appeasement in a political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Ministers Ramsay Macdonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1939.

Question 4

Axis Powers

Answer 4

The Axis powers, also known as the Axis, were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces. The Axis powers agreed on their opposition to the Allies, but did not coordinate their activity.

Question 5

Allied powers

Answer 5

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that opposed the Axis powers together during the Second World War (1939–1945). The Allies promoted the alliance as seeking to stop German, Japanese and Italian aggression.

Question 6

munich Conference

Answer 6

The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany’s annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country’s borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation “Sudetenland” was coined. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe, excluding the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.

Question 7

AntiComitern pact

Answer 7

The Anti-Comintern Pact was an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan (later to be joined by other, mainly fascist, governments) on November 25, 1936 and was directed against the Third (Communist) International.

Question 8

German soviet non-Aggression pact

Answer 8

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, named after the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, officially the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in Moscow on 23 August 1939.

Question 9

Sanction

Answer 9

a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule:

Question 10

demilitarized, Winston churchill, Blitzkrieg

Answer 10

remove all military forces from (an area):

Question 11

Allied Powers

Answer 11

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that opposed the Axis powers together during the Second World War (1939–1945). The Allies promoted the alliance as seeking to stop German, Japanese and Italian aggression.

Question 12

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 12

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman. He was the leader of Free France and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Question 13

Rhineland Pearl Harbor

Answer 13

German Rheinland-Pfalz, Land (state) situated in southwestern Germany.

Question 14

Sudetenland

Answer 14

is the German name to refer to those northern, southern, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by ethnic German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Czech Silesia located within Czechoslovakia, since they were part of Austria until the end of World War I

Question 15

siege of leningrad

Answer 15

Siege of Leningrad, also called 900-day siege, prolonged siege (September 8, 1941–January 27, 1944) of the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the Soviet Union by German and Finnish armed forces during World War II. The siege actually lasted 872 days.

Question 16

Batle of Stalingrad

Answer 16

The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.

Question 17

Phony war

Answer 17

The Phoney War was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front.

Question 18

Isolationist

Answer 18

.a person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries:

Question 19

Batle of Britain

Answer 19

The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, literally “Air battle for England”) is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.

Question 20

Lend lease act neutrality acts

Answer 20

the state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartiality:

Question 21

VE day

Answer 21

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces.

Question 22

D day

Answer 22

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

Question 23

new order

Answer 23

1.the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method:

Question 24

final solution

Answer 24

The Final Solution or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question was a Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews during World War II.

Question 25

Holocaust Anne Frank

Answer 25

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously following the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

Question 26

Auschwitz

Answer 26

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Question 27

FDR

Answer 27

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Question 28

Douglas macArthur

Answer 28

Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army.

Question 29

warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Answer 29

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany’s final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka.

Question 30

Midway highlands

Answer 30

MidwayUSA is a privately held American retailer of various hunting and outdoor-related products. The company is headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, and sells in the continental United States. The company markets online.

Question 31

Genocide

Answer 31

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Question 32

Poland

Answer 32

is a country in Central Europe, situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges in the south.

Question 33

united nations

Answer 33

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.

Question 34

kamikaze

Answer 34

The Kamikaze, officially Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, abbreviated as Tokkō Tai, and used as a verb as Tokkō (特攻 “special attack”), were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks.

Question 35

Mobilization

Answer 35

Mobilization is the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war. The word mobilization was first used, in a military context, in order to describe the preparation of the Russian army during the 1850s and 1860s. Mobilization theories and techniques have continuously changed since then. The opposite of mobilization is demobilization.

Question 36

island hooping

Answer 36

Island hopping is the crossing of an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly to the destination.

Question 37

atomic bomb

Answer 37

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion (thermonuclear weapon). Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter.

Question 38

Hiroshima

Answer 38

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu - the largest island of Japan.

Question 39

Nagasaki marshall plan yalta potsdam

Answer 39

Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became a centre of Portuguese and Dutch influence in the 16th through 19th centuries, and the Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki have been proposed for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Question 40

Bretton woods conference

Answer 40

The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II.

Question 41

Truman Doctrine

Answer 41

The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey.

Question 42

VJ day

Answer 42

Victory over Japan Day is the day on which the Empire of Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war.

Question 43

concentration camp

Answer 43

Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War.

Question 44

nanjing

Answer 44

Nanjing, formerly romanized as Nanking and Nankin, is the city situated in the heartland of lower Yangtze River region in China, which has long been a major centre of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism.

Question 45

Atlantic charter

Answer 45

The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued on 14 August 1941, that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. The leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States drafted the work and all the Allies of World War II later confirmed it.

Question 46

operation overload

Answer 46

Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune, commonly known as D-Day).

Question 47

nuremberg trials

Answer 47

The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes.

Question 48

Quit India

Answer 48

The Quit India Movement, or the India August Movement (August Kranti), was a civil disobedience movement launched in India on 9 August 1942 by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called “an orderly British withdrawal” from India.

Question 49

Bataan march

Answer 49

Starting on April 9, 1942, prisoners were disarmed and told to march to Balanga, the capital of Bataan. Some were beaten, bayoneted, and otherwise mistreated. The first atrocity occurred when approximately 350 to 400 Filipino officers and NCOs were summarily executed near the Pantingan river after they had surrendered.

Question 50

kings African Rifles

Answer 50

The King’s African Rifles (KAR) was a multi-battalionBritish colonial regiment raised from Britain’s various possessions in British East Africa in the present-day African Great Lakes region from 1902 until independence in the 1960s.

Question 51

normandy

Answer 51

Normandy is one of the regions of France, roughly corresponding to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

Question 52

invasion

Answer 52

The Invasion of Normandy was the invasion by and establishment of Western Allied forces in Normandy, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II; the largest amphibious invasion to ever take place. D-Day, the day of the initial assaults, was Tuesday 6 June 1944.

Question 53

aggression

Answer 53

hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront:

Question 54

Hailie selassie

Answer 54

Haile Selassie I; 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975, born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974.

Question 55

mutilation

Answer 55

the action of mutilating or being mutilated:

Question 56

Mein Kampf

Answer 56

Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work outlines Hitler’s political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. The book was edited by Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess.