Chapter 24-World War II, Part A

Question 1

Dictator of Germany

Answer 1

Adolph Hitler

Question 2

Hitler’s political party

Answer 2

National Socialists (Nazis)

Question 3

Hitler’s book

Answer 3

Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

Question 4

Lebensraum was the essence of Hitler’s desire for ______

Answer 4

Living Space for his Aryan Race in Eastern Europe

Question 5

He was an Anti-Communist German Dictator

Answer 5

Adolph Hitler

Question 6

These were Anti-Jewish Laws passed in Germany

Answer 6

Nuremberg Laws

Question 7

This was called the Night of Broken Glass that began the official persecution of the Jews in Germany in 1938.

Answer 7

Kristallnacht

Question 8

This German organization spread fear through Nazi occupied Europe.

Answer 8

Gestapo

Question 9

The victims of the Holocaust included

Answer 9

Jews, homosexuals, disabled people, Gypsies, and Slavs

Question 10

This was a Concentration camp

Answer 10

Buchenwald

Question 11

This was an extermination (death) camp

Answer 11

Auschwitz

Question 12

This ship brought Jewish refugees to the US but was not allowed to unload the passengers because of anti-Jewish feelings in the US

Answer 12

SS St. Louis

Question 13

The Wannsee Conference was the official beginning for the _______ of the Jewish question by the Nazis.

Answer 13

Final Solution

Question 14

_____ was a young Jewish girl that hid and wrote a diary of her experience during the Holocaust in The Netherlands

Answer 14

Anne Frank

Question 15

Italian Fascist Dictator

Answer 15

Benito Mussolini

Question 16

Spanish Fascist Dictator

Answer 16

Francisco Franco

Question 17

Soviet Communist Dictator

Answer 17

Joseph Stalin

Question 18

Stalin used _______ for his industrialization and collective farms programs in the Soviet Union.

Answer 18

Central Planning

Question 19

This country’s military was in-fact its dictators and wanted expansion into China

Answer 19

Japan

Question 20

Which two countries assisted Francisco Franco efforts to control Spain.

Answer 20

Germany and Italy

Question 21

This was supposed to protect France from an invasion by Germany.

Answer 21

Maginot Line

Question 22

Anschluss was Hitler’s take over of this country.

Answer 22

Austria

Question 23

At Munich, British and French diplomats chose to _____ Hitler, selling out their own allies the Czechs.

Answer 23

appeasement

Question 24

This Polish city was demanded by Hitler that led to the beginning of World War II.

Answer 24

Danzig

Question 25

This secret pact allowed Hitler to attack Poland without fear of communist counter attack.

Answer 25

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Question 26

This country was split by Hitler and Stalin in 1939.

Answer 26

Poland

Question 27

What type of warfare did Germany use to defeat their enemies?

Answer 27

Blitzkrieg

Question 28

This was when Britain and France declared war but did not attack for 6 months.

Answer 28

Sitzkrieg or Phony War

Question 29

What three Northern European countries did Hitler attack to get around the French Maginot Line.

Answer 29

Belgium, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands

Question 30

This battle was a “Miracle of Deliverance” because the British and many French soldiers escape from the Nazis.

Answer 30

Dunkirk

Question 31

What two military forces fight in the Battle of Britain?

Answer 31

Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe

Question 32

What southern European nations did Hitler conquer?

Answer 32

Yugoslavia and Greece

Question 33

On June 22, 1941, Hitler invades ______

Answer 33

Stalin’s Soviet Union

Question 34

Name three central European nations that join Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union?

Answer 34

Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria

Question 35

What portion of Asia did the Japanese conquer in 1936?

Answer 35

Manchuria, China

Question 36

What American territories were attacked by the Japanese in 1941?

Answer 36

Philippines, Aleutian Island (Alaska), and Hawaii

Question 37

What African Territories were controlled by the Italians in the 1930s?

Answer 37

Ethiopia and Libya

Question 38

This was a group of Americans who wanted to pursue a policy of Isolationism and to stay out of the war in Europe during the 1930s.

Answer 38

America First Committee

Question 39

The _____ Act would only allow combatants to buy with cash and to only carry arms using their own boats.

Answer 39

Neutrality Act of 1939

Question 40

The ______ for Bases Deal would help defend British shipping in the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 40

Destroyers for Bases Deal

Question 41

This weapon was Germany’s most important weapon in the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 41

U-Boats or submarines

Question 42

This US destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats before US declares war.

Answer 42

Reuben James

Question 43

The ____ purpose was to ally the US with the British and protect allied shipping and create a hemispheric defense zone.

Answer 43

Atlantic Charter

Question 44

The ______ Act was to help the British (later other allied nations like the Soviets) with arms that they would only barrow.

Answer 44

Lend-Lease act

Question 45

This strategic material was embargoed against Japan because of their invasions of China and Indochina in 1941.

Answer 45

Oil embargo

Question 46

This was attacked the by Japanese on December 7, 1941.

Answer 46

Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii