Road to WW2

Question 1

What were the two main causes of world war II?

Answer 1

1) Mistreatment of Germany under the treaty of Versailles
2) The Great Depression leads to the rise of dictators in ev.

Question 2

The Great Depression began with what event?

Answer 2

The crash of the stock market

Question 3

Name four extreme form of government that arose in Europe before of after the great depression:

Answer 3

Communism
Fascism
Nazism
Militarism

Question 4

What was the main factor the allowed these governments to come to power?

Answer 4

People were desperate, and unemployed

Question 5

List 6 groups that the Nazis considered to be “Undesirable”, and needed to be cleansed from Germany:

Answer 5

JEWS
Russian
Gypsies
Jehovah Witness
Homosexuals
Handicapped
negros

Question 5

What 2 promises did Adolf Hitler give to the German people if they elected him?

Answer 5

1) He promised to get German people out of the great depression
2) He promised get back for the treaty of versille

Question 6

Name 3 beliefs these extreme governments shared in common:

Answer 6

1) Demanded fanatic loyalty to leaders/ country
2) Totalitarian/ police states where the police/ gov. control everything
3) Racism: superiority of their race

Question 7

What was the League of nations response to the aggressive actions of Japan, Italy and Germany?

Answer 7

Nothing

Question 8

Why did Great Britain and France “appease” or give in to Hitler’s demands at the munich pact ?

Answer 8

To avoid war

Question 8

What event was used by Hitler as a “Dress Rehearsal” for WW2?

Answer 8

1936- Spanish civil war

Question 9

Why did most German jews refused asylum (entry) into countries during 1930’s?

Answer 9

Great depression - No jobs

Question 10

Who were the brainwashed German group, who were fanatically loyal to Adolf Hitler?

Answer 10

HJ

Question 11

Whose country did Adolf Hitler consider a weak, “Mongrel race”?

Answer 11

Americans

Question 12

What country other that Germany was the only that Hitler respected? Why did he respect this country?

Answer 12

Great Britain because of its Mighty Empire

Question 13

Name the four major allied powers in WW2?

Answer 13

Great Britain, France, USSR and USA

Question 14

Name three major axis powers in WW2?

Answer 14

Germany, Italy and Japan

Question 15

The code name for the invasion of the soviet union:

Answer 15

Operation Barbarossa

Question 16

Code name for D-Day, The battle of Normandy:

Answer 16

Operation Overlord

Question 17

Hatred of the jews

Answer 17

Anti-Semitism

Question 18

what were Jewish people forced to wear to identify themselves to other’s?

Answer 18

“Star of David”

Question 19

Nazis political/ racial ideology was summarized in Adolf Hitler’s book:

Answer 19

Mein Kompf
“My struggle”

Question 20

What was the Buffer zone between Germany and France that was occupied by Hitler in 1936?

Answer 20

Rhineland

Question 21

What was the importance of the Battle of Britain?

Answer 21

~ Early turning point of the war
~ First time Hitler lost
~ People of Europe realized that Hitler is not unbeatable

Question 22

Who were the first Black servicemen to serve as military pilots in WW2?

Answer 22

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 23

What were the 3 major results of the Japanese attack on pearl harbor?

Answer 23

1) USA enters the war
2) Unites the people of the US/ Americans wanted revenge
3) Interment camps

Question 24

What reason did the US government give for putting Jap-Americans into interment camps? What was the REAL REASON?

Answer 24

Reason they gave: National Security
Real: Fear & Prejudice

Question 25

What 4 things did Adolf Hitler do in his “Final solution” to rid Europe of the jewish nation?

Answer 25

1) Immigration: make life so bad in Germany that they flee the country
2) Mobile death squads: Dug trenches and were machine gun to death
3) Ghettos: jews rounded up in cities, sealed behind Barbwire
4)Death camps: jews gassed in showers and cremated in ovens

Question 26

16,000 Americans and Filipinos soldiers died on their way to POW camp

Answer 26

Bataan Death march

Question 27

Why did the United states decide to use the atomic bomb of Japan rather than to invade the country?

Answer 27

Because it would save lives

Question 28

Name and give a brief description of the three different types of German concentration camps used in WW2:

Answer 28

1) POW-camps held prisoners at war mostly in Germany
2) Work camps used slave labor to help the German war effort many worked to death
3) death camps: used to exterminate people
* all six were located in Poland

Question 29

List the results of WW2:

Answer 29

1) approximately 70 million people died 40 million were civilians
2) Europe is in ruins 30 million refugees
3) Cold War, two competing superpowers (US and Soviet Union)
4) Great Britain lost its empire
5) Nuclear age
6) Creation of Israel (Jewish homeland)