Great Drepression/ World War I

Question 1

Kellogg-Briand

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The Kellogg–Briand Pact is 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

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Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is a rugged, landlocked country split by the Great Rift Valley. With archaeological finds dating back more than 3 million years, it’s a place of ancient culture. Among its important sites are Lalibela with its rock-cut Christian churches from the 12th–13th centuries. Aksum is the ruins of an ancient city.

Question 3

Appeasement

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the action or process of appeasing.

Question 4

Axis Powers

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The Axis powers, also known as the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied Powers. The Axis agreed on their opposition to the Allies, but did not completely coordinate their activity.

Question 5

Allied Powers

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The Allies of World War I were the countries that opposed the Central Powers in the First World War. The members of the original Triple Entente of 1907 were the French Republic, the British Empire and the Russian Empire.

Question 6

Munich Confrence

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The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it.

Question 7

Anti-Comintern Pact

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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 Solviet

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German–Soviet Union relations date to the aftermath of the First World War. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, dictated by Germany ended hostilities between Russia and Germany; it was signed on March 3, 1918.

Question 9

Sanction

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a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

Question 10

Demilitarized

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remove all military forces from (an area).

Question 11

Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD PC PCc DL FRS RA was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

Question 12

Charles De Gaulle

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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

Pearl Harbor

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Question 14

Sudetenland

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The Sudetenland 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 .

Question 15

Seige Of Leningrad

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The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade (Russian: блокада Ленинграда, transliteration: blokada Leningrada) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army Group North against Leningrad, historically and currently known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of .

Question 16

Battle of Stalingrad

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The Battle of Stalingrad 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 in Southern Russia.

Question 17

Phony war

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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

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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

Battle of Britain

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The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940.

Question 20

Lend lease act

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Military aid to Britain was greatly facilitated by the Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, in which Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to ‘any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.

Question 21

VE Day

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The day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945.

Question 22

D-day

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The day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.

Question 23

New order

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a new system, regime, or government.
“a new economic order”
Hitler’s planned reorganization of Europe under Nazi rule.
noun: New Order; plural noun: New Orders

Question 24

Final Solution

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The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.

Question 25

Auschwitz

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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 26

FDR

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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 27

Douglas McAuthor

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Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

Question 28

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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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.

Question 29

Midway Highlands

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Question 30

Genocide

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

Question 31

Poland

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Poland is an eastern European country on the Baltic Sea known for its medieval architecture and Jewish heritage. Warsaw, the capital, has shopping and nightlife, plus the Warsaw Uprising Museum, honoring the city’s WWII-era resistance to German occupation. In the city of Kraków, 14th-century Wawel Castle rises.

Question 32

United Nations

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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order.

Question 33

Kamikaze

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in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

Question 34

Mobilization

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The action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active service.

Question 35

Island hopping

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Travel from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands.

Question 36

Atomic bomb

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A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a … The first test of a fission (“atomic”) bomb released the same amount of energy as …

Question 37

Hiroshima

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The United States, at the order of President Harry S. Truman, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War II.

Question 38

Nagasaki

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Nagasaki is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu. It’s set on a large natural harbor, with buildings on the terraces of surrounding hills. It is synonymous with a key moment during World War II, after suffering an Allied nuclear attack in August 1945. The event is memorialized at the city’s Atomic Bomb.

Question 39

Holocaust

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The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.

Question 40

Anne Frank

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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 .

Question 41

Brenton Woods Conference

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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 .

Question 42

Truman Doctrine

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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold .

Question 43

VJ Day

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the day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered.

Question 44

Concentration camp

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a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.

Question 45

Nanjing

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Nanjing, capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province, is roughly 300km up the Yangtze River from the city of Shanghai. It was the national capital during part of the Ming dynasty. Many monuments and landmarks remain, including Zhonghua Gate (Gate of China), a preserved 14th-century section of the massive.

Question 46

Atlantic Charter

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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims.

Question 47

Operation overlord

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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 was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings.

Question 48

Number Trials

Answer 48

Play Number Trails Addition at Math Playground.com! Connect the numbers to make the given sum.

Question 49

Quilt India

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Whether it is a colourful ethnic printed quilt or a fleece blanket or a modern microfibre quilt, you get to buy everything on Amazon India with much ease. … The quilts are available in different shapes, sizes and are made of high-quality material, stitched together in layers to offer you maximum comfort.

Question 50

Bataan March

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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saisaih Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O’Donnell, .

Question 51

King African Rifles

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The King’s African Rifles was a multi-battalion British 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 52

Normandy

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The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June 1944. The invaders were able to establish a .

Question 53

Invasion

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an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force.

Question 54

Aggression

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

Question 55

Hailie Selassie

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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 56

Mutilation

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the action of mutilating or being mutilated.

Question 57

Mein Kampf

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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.