after wwii quiz

Question 1

Axis Powers

Answer 1

group of countries that opposed the Allied powers in WWII; included Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 2

Allies

Answer 2

group of countries that opposed the Axis powers; included Great Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, USSR, USA

Question 3

The Mukden Incident

Answer 3

*staged event engineered by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of 1931 in Northeastern China (Manchuria)

Question 4

Rape of Nanking

Answer 4

Japanese conquest and destruction of the Chinese city of Nanking in the 1930s; Japanese army forces killed hundreds of thousands Chinese soldiers and civilians

Question 5

November Crime

Answer 5

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Question 6

Hitler

Answer 6

German politician who was the leader of Nazi party, and was responsible for largest human genocide in history; very anti-semitic

Question 7

Anschluss

Answer 7

term used to describe annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on March 12, 1938

Question 8

appeasement

Answer 8

British and French policy in the 1930s that tried to maintain peace in Europe in the face of German aggression by making concessions

Question 9

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 9

*British conservative politician who served as prime minister of the UK from May 1937-May 1940

Question 10

Munich Conference

Answer 10

1938 meeting between Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and France in which attendees agreed to German expansion in Czechoslovakia; part of policy of appeasement that led Hitler to believe he had a free hand in Europe

Question 11

German-Russian Treaty of Nonaggression

Answer 11

*Russian-German treaty which said that there would be no military action for the next 10 years against each other; signed August 23, 1939

Question 12

Blitzkrieg

Answer 12

German style of rapid attack through the use of armor and air power that was used in Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France in 1939-1940

Question 13

u-boats

Answer 13

*German submarine

Question 14

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 14

code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941; Germany lost

Question 15

Battle of Britain

Answer 15

military campaign when the Royal Air Force defended the UK against the German Air Force attacks at the end of June 1940

Question 16

Winston Churchill

Answer 16

*British Politician who was prime minister of the UK from 1940-1945 and 1951-1955

Question 17

The Final Solution

Answer 17

Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews; introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann; policy resulted in hte murder of 6 million Jews in camps between 1941-1945

Question 18

The SS

Answer 18

major parliamentary organization under Hitler in Nazi Germany

Question 19

The Vichy gov’t

Answer 19

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Question 20

Pearl Harbor

Answer 20

major US naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941

Question 21

D-Day

Answer 21

The Day (June 6, 1944) during WWII when the Allied Powers invaded northern France by means of beach landing in Normandy

Question 22

kamikaze

Answer 22

Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target

Question 23

Hiroshima + Nagasaki

Answer 23

cities destroyed in WWII when American airplanes dropped atomic bombs on them August 1945