Lesson 4 - events and end of WW2

Question 1

2 things hitler demanded from europe

Answer 1

Lebensraum and Appeasement

Question 2

a German word that means “Living Space”

Answer 2

Lebensraum

Question 3

(Lebensraum) Hitler demanded to re-acquire territories that they have lost during World War 1 as an effect of the treaty of Versailles. Though should not be, the League of Nations and Europe allowed the annexing of the German realm in:

Answer 3

-Austria
-Rhineland
-Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)

Question 4

____ is giving someone something to make them happy and leaving you alone. Exactly what Great Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did through Appeasement that gave Sudetenland to Hitler.

Answer 4

Appeasement

Question 5

To secure peace with a possible threat, Germany signed a peace treaty with USSR, the ____. It is a Non- Aggression pact between Germany and Russia signed in **Moscow on August 23, 1939. **

Answer 5

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Question 6

At ____, Hitler invaded Poland.

Great Britain and France requested German troops to leave Poland but they did not leave. Great Britain and France declared war against Germany starting the Second World War.

Answer 6

4:45 in the morning of September 1, 1939

Question 7

The Two theaters

Answer 7

European and Pacific

Question 8

The European theater is participated by…

Answer 8

Great Britain and France versus Germany and Italy

Question 9

The Germans utilized the ____, as a military doctrine with the element of speed and surprise so that the rival would not have time to prepare.

Answer 9

“Blitzkrieg” policy, or lightning war

Question 10

France surrendered to the German blitzkrieg after ____. This made France the first country in World War 2 to surrender to the Axis.

Answer 10

6 weeks from May 10 – June 22, 1940

Question 11

France surrendered to the German blitzkrieg after ____. This made France the first country in World War 2 to surrender to the Axis.

Answer 11

6 weeks from May 10 – June 22, 1940

Question 12

The invasion of Germany in Britain

Answer 12

Battle of Britain

Question 13

The invasion of Germany in Britain

Answer 13

Battle of Britain

Question 14

German Blitz “lightning” attempted to attack Great Britain, yet was unsuccessful when the ____ was able to defeat the German Blitz).

Answer 14

RAF (Royal Air Force)

Question 15

scapegoat of all German miseries

Answer 15

The Jews

Question 16

Holocaust came from Greek origin meaning ____. A Genocide, purposely trying to exterminate an entire group of people, the Jews.

Answer 16

“sacrifice by fire”

Question 17

How many Jews died in the holocaust ?

Answer 17

6 million

Question 18

The Pacific war started when Japan attacked ____, an American Naval Base in Hawaii on _____. The United States of America participated in the War.

Answer 18

Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Question 19

Like the German Blitzkrieg, the Japanese also have their own attack style, the ____, meaning “_____”. In ancient Japanese history, it means the storm that saved Japan from being invaded by the Mongols.

Answer 19

Kamikaze, Divine Wind

Question 20

definition of Kamikaze

Answer 20

-a Japanese Pilot in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (such as a ship)
-an airplane containing explosives to be flown in a suicide crash on a target.

Question 21

_______ is the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941.

Answer 21

Operation Barbarossa

Question 22

Hitler wanted to destroy _____, for it bears the name of ___, and to further control mainland Europe.

Answer 22

Stalingrad, Stalin

Question 23

Hitler wanted to destroy _____, for it bears the name of ___, and to further control mainland Europe.

Answer 23

Stalingrad, Stalin

Question 24

Germany attacked at the wrong time, they were blocked by the ______ killing ____ Germans. By the end, there were only ____ Germans able to return home.

Answer 24

Russian Winter,
91,000 ,
5000-6000

Question 25

Great Britain’s Royal army continued to push the ______, the Army Supporting Mussolini from northern Africa up back to Italy.

Answer 25

Italian National Republican Army (INRA)

Question 26

After the death of Mussolini and his mistress, _____ on _____, Italians surrendered in Northern Italy on ____.

Answer 26

Clara Petacci ,

28 April 1945 ,

May 2, 1945.

Question 27

the allied rescue code for France, also called D-Day.

Answer 27

Operation overlord

Question 28

British rescue to France was utilized using the ______. An Assault in World War 2 where forces from a Battleship are transferred by small marine vehicles to the shore.

Answer 28

Amphibious Assault

Question 29

With France and Great Britain attacking from the west and U.S.S.R. from the east, Germany surrenders in _____ after Hitler commits suicide. Victory in Europe Day or VE Day was declared on _____.

Answer 29

1945 ,

May 8, 1945

Question 30

Though Germany and Italy surrendered, Japan stayed stubborn. Japan’s stubbornness to surrender in the war prompted the U.S. to drop its atomic bombs:

Answer 30

Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945
Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945

Question 31

On ____, Imperial Japan surrendered to the Americans, in effect ending World War 2. Signed in _____

Answer 31

August 15, 1945

U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay