Questions-WW2

Question 0

how did hitlers actions in the 1930s violate the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 0

he was secretly rebuilding the military, the treaty purposefully weakened it

Question 1

how did the treaty of Versailles contributed to the beginning of WW2?

Answer 1

Germany was humiliated,wanted revenge and to rebuild

Question 2

why did the western democracies practice appeasement against Germany and hitler?

Answer 2

they were trying to avoid unnecessary war

Question 3

who did hitler alliance with in the 1930s?

Answer 3

Italy and Japan

Question 4

how did hitler take over Austria?

Answer 4

forced annexation

Question 5

why did hitler justify a takeover of Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia

Answer 5

the people were eager, he just threatened to government and no one stopped him

Question 6

what invasion marked the beginning of WW2?

Answer 6

Germany’s attack on Poland

Question 7

how did British and French respond to Germany’s expansion and aggression?

Answer 7

formed the allies- and declared war on Germany, but could not save Poland and wasn’t ready to defend France

Question 8

explain the German invasion of France

Answer 8

allies were no match- Germans blitzkrieg ed and quickly took over France

Question 9

evacuation if Dunkirk

Answer 9

allied and non military- everyone with a boat- rushed over to evacuate soldiers
those soldiers fought in D day

Question 10

how did soviets stop German blitzkrieg?

Answer 10

early fighting- Germans hurt soviets

Germans got caught in winter (ill-prepared) and Russians recovered from early fighting and took over

Question 11

how did Pearl Harbor effect US isolationism?

Answer 11

STOPPED IT

Question 12

who were the leaders of each allied power country?

Answer 12

GB- Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill

US- FDR and Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 13

who won the battle for the Atlantic and why was it significant?

Answer 13

allies, supply lines from us to gb were kept open

Question 14

how did American entry to WW2 change the course of the war?

Answer 14

sped up, modernized US

Question 15

how did the war in NA and Italy progress?

Answer 15

Americans entered and took it over relatively quickly

Question 16

why was the battle of Stalingrad a turning point in the war? what made it so bloody?

Answer 16

devastating blow to German force, neither would surrender

Question 17

where did US choose to focus on in the beginning in the war? why?

Answer 17

islands around japan, island hopping

Question 18

why did Japanese use kamikazes in WW2?

Answer 18

would rather die than surrender

Question 19

how did the nazis attempt to carry out their final solution plan?

Answer 19

ghettos, concentration camps

Question 20

how did the rest of the world react to the holocaust?

Answer 20

disbelief, no concrete action, war refugee board (US)

Question 21

what effect did D-day have on the war?

Answer 21

huge victory for allies, allies took back France

Question 22

how did war end in Europe?

Answer 22

race to Berlin- soviets and allies

soviets reached first, hitler killed himself, Germany surrenders

Question 23

why did allies dread invading japan?

Answer 23

japan would fight to death, death rates would be too high

Question 24

how did the development of the atomic bomb affect the world in years after the war?

Answer 24

never wanted to be used again

Question 25

allies plans after war?

Answer 25

UN, no communism

Question 26

yalta

Answer 26

Germany was to be split 
Germany would pay reparations 
compromise govnt in Poland 
free elections in Eastern Europe 
Russia would help against japan

Question 27

Potsdam

Answer 27

Truman drops bomb

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