Part 2

Question 1

Fascism

Answer 1

Government control over everything but believe in private property

Question 2

Benito Mussolini

Answer 2

Fascist; Leader of Italy; One of Hitler’s allies

Question 3

Spanish Civil War

Answer 3

Spanish Republic against the Fascists; When Hitler and Mussolini are helping Franco; Where Hitler tries out Blitzkrieg; Russians also support the Spanish Republic which leads to confusions in thinking the Spanish are communist

Question 4

Lincoln Battalion

Answer 4

A group of volunteers from the United States that went to fight fascism on the side of the Spanish Republic; Example of revisionism; Now the definition is 2000-3000 volunteers from all around the world

Question 5

Francisco Franco

Answer 5

A Fascist leader of Spain after the Spanish Civil War; Only Fascist in power after WWII

Question 6

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 6

Great appeaser; decides that collective security is not working so he uses appeasement to get Hitler to stop

Question 7

Appeasement

Answer 7

Giving in to the dictator hoping that he’ll stop there; Never works

Question 8

Why did England and France appease Germany?

Answer 8

1. They’re haunted by WWI; 2. Some believe the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on the Germans; 3. Britain and France were not ready for war economically or militarily; 4. Triple Entente is dead; 5. Did not have the support of the US

Question 9

Tripartite Pact

Answer 9

Japan, Italy and Germany; Fascists; NOT Russia

Question 10

Non Aggression Pact

Answer 10

Germany and Russia agreeing not to fight each other; both are trying to buy time before the fighting breaks out; Germany was waiting to execute the Schlieffen plan which did work in WWII; Russia wasn’t ready because the industry was close to Germany and they were still trying to move everything

Question 11

Hitler’s Foreign Policy Aims

Answer 11

destruction of the Treaty of Versailles; Conquest and colonization of Eastern Europe and the domination and exploitation of racial inferiors (Holocaust); Hitler is not a communist!

Question 12

Six Million Jews

Answer 12

Total number of Jews that die during the Holocaust; 3 million in Poland alone

Question 13

Final Solution

Answer 13

Holocaust

Question 14

Blitzkrieg

Answer 14

“Lightening war” How Hitler is going to fight his wars, throws everything at his target and then leaves before they can retaliate

Question 15

Battle for Britain

Answer 15

where radar becomes very important; Hitler was using his Blitzkrieg warfare; Luftwaffe the German aircraft involved in fighting

Question 16

Royal Air Force

Answer 16

British air force; the ones fights in the Battle for Britain-mostly fought in the skies

Question 17

Radar

Answer 17

Used very heavily in the Battle for Britain

Question 18

Operation Magic

Answer 18

ID-operation that was set up to interpret Japanese codes during WWII; We have the ability to decipher the messages but Pearl Harbor still happened because there weren’t enough people working on it

Question 19

Pearl Harbor

Answer 19

Attacked by the Japanese; this is the event that draws America into the war

Question 20

Hirohito

Answer 20

Emperor of Japan during WWII

Question 21

St. Louis

Answer 21

ID-A ship that leaves Germany after the Night of the Broken Glass; 900 Jews are aboard looking for asylum heading for Central America; They were turned away and head to Miami, turned away and then forced to go back to Europe; Greeted by Nazis taken straight to the concentration camps or they use what money they have to buy their way into France

Question 22

The Babies Have Been Delivered

Answer 22

When Truman receives notice that the Atomic bomb has successfully been tested; at the Potsdam Conference

Question 23

Manhattan Project

Answer 23

The atomic bomb program; code name for the development project

Question 24

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 24

The two cities that are hit by the Atomic bombs

Question 25

August 8, 1945

Answer 25

When the Soviet Union declares war on Japan