Chapter 20: World War 2

Question 0

What was the government in Germany before Hitler came to power?

Answer 0

Bavarian government

Question 1

Who was the leader of Germany during World War 2?

Answer 1

Adolf Hitler (known as Der Fuhrer)

Question 2

What book did Hitler write?

Answer 2

Wrote Mein Kampf (ideas of a new German order, to end democracy in Germany, and to eliminate the Jews)

Question 3

What was Hitler’s government called?

Answer 3

3rd Reich

Question 4

Who was the dictator of Italy?

Answer 4

Benito Mussolini

Question 5

What sort of government did Italy have?

Answer 5

Fascist (Black Shirts crushed all resistance)

Question 6

Who was the leader of Japan?

Answer 6

Hideki Tojo (Military Head of Japan)

Question 7

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union?

Answer 7

Joseph Stalin (succeeded Lenin)

Question 8

Who was the first aggressor in WWII?

Answer 8

Japan (against Manchuria, China)

Question 9

What sort of union did Hitler begin with Austria?

Answer 9

an Anschluss

Question 10

What other lands did Hitler add to Germany before World War II?

Answer 10

Rhineland, Sudetenland, Czechaslovakia

Question 11

Which leader recognized the aggressive expansion of Nazi Germany?

Answer 11

Winston Churchill

Question 12

What agreement did Hitler make with the Soviet Union?

Answer 12

Non-agression pact

Question 13

What day did Hitler begin World War II?

Answer 13

September 1, 1939- Hitler invaded Poland sparking WWII

Question 14

What were the Luftwaffe?

Answer 14

Nazi Air Force

Question 15

What was the German War Machine called?

Answer 15

Wehrmacht

Question 16

What was the German term for “lightning war”?

Answer 16

Blitzkrieg

Question 17

What 3 European countries did Germany conquer?

Answer 17

Denmark, Norway, and France

Question 18

What was Germany’s invasion of USSR called?

Answer 18

Barbarossa

Question 19

What did the Neutrality Act of 1937 do?

Answer 19

Cut off US military supplies to belligerents

Question 20

What did the Neutrality Act of 1939 do?

Answer 20

Cash and Carry principle

Question 21

Who was the head of America’s Neutrality Committee?

Answer 21

Charles Lindbergh

Question 22

Who ran in the election 1940?

Answer 22

FDR vs. Wendell Willkie (FDR won)

Question 23

What were FDR’s 4 freedom?

Answer 23

Speech, Worship, From Want, and From Fear (Norman Rockwell’s paintings)

Question 24

What act empowered the President to supply allied nations?

Answer 24

Lend-Lease Act

Question 25

What was the Atlantic Charter?

Answer 25

Churchill and FDR met at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland to draw up a list of common principles

Question 26

What was Pearl Harbor?

Answer 26

On December 1941, Japan attacked the US

Question 27

What did the US do with Japanese-Americans?

Answer 27

They were put in detention camps

Question 28

What islands did the US surrender to Japan?

Answer 28

Phillipines

Question 29

What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

Answer 29

Midway

Question 30

Who was the admiral that destroyed Japan’s carriers?

Answer 30

Chester Nimitz

Question 31

What board was in charge of conversion of civilian to military production?

Answer 31

War Production Board

Question 32

What were ration books?

Answer 32

Issued to every American for the purchases of sugar, coffee, meat, butter, etc.

Question 33

What were things done for the war effort?

Answer 33

Victory Gardens and scrap drives

Question 34

Who was Rosie the Riveter?

Answer 34

Woman who was on posters which encouraged women to enter traditionally male jobs

Question 35

What were Axis Taxes?

Answer 35

Taxes to pay for the war

Question 36

Who was Bernie Montgomery?

Answer 36

British Gen. sent to deal with Afrika Corp

Question 37

What was the Casablanca Conference?

Answer 37

Casablanca Conference- FDR and CHurchill met to devise strategy

Question 38

When was D-Day?

Answer 38

June 6, 1944

Question 39

Who was the appointed Supreme Allied Commander?

Answer 39

Gen. Eisenhower

Question 40

What battle was Hitler’s counter offensive through the Ardennes?

Answer 40

Battle of the Bulge

Question 41

What was the strategy to take key islands from the Japanese?

Answer 41

Island Hopping

Question 42

What is the volcanic island where one of the most famous pictures of the war was taken?

Answer 42

Iwo Jima

Question 43

What was the bloodiest single campaign in the Pacific?

Answer 43

Okinawa

Question 44

What were Kamikaze?

Answer 44

Japanese sucide planes loaded with explosives

Question 45

What was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 45

Big three meet (FDR, Churchill, and Stalin)

Question 46

What is VE Day?

Answer 46

May 8, 1945

Question 47

What called on Japan to surrender unconditionally?

Answer 47

Potsdam Declaration

Question 48

Who was the new British Prime Minister?

Answer 48

Clement Atlee

Question 49

Who becomes President after FDR dies?

Answer 49

Harry S Truman

Question 50

Where did the US drop atomic bombs on Japan, and what dates?

Answer 50

Hiroshima- August 6

Question 51

When does Japan surrender to the US?

Answer 51

September 2, 1945 on board the USS Missouri

Question 52

What were Displaced People camps?

Answer 52

Camps for Jewish people and others who were in concentration camps

Question 53

Where were Nazi’s tried for war crimes?

Answer 53

Nuremberg Trials

Question 54

What is the Holocaust?

Answer 54

Slaughter of 6 million Jews

Question 55

What death camps were there?

Answer 55

Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka