Social Studies WW2 test

Question 1

FDR

Answer 1

Franklin Delanor Roosevelt President of the United States at the beginning of WW2.

Question 2

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 2

General who directed the Allied invasion of Europe

Question 3

Harry Truman

Answer 3

US President who made the decision to drop the Atom bomb on Japan

Question 4

Benito Mussolini

Answer 4

Head of Italy during World War Two

Question 5

Joseph Stalin

Answer 5

Leader of Russia during World War Two

Question 6

Winston Churchill

Answer 6

Prime Minister of Britain during ww2.

Question 7

inflation

Answer 7

Rise in prices combined with a decrease in the value of money.

Question 8

depression

Answer 8

an economic period when people lose jobs

Question 9

fascism

Answer 9

idea that the govt is deemed more important than the individual people

Question 10

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 10

US Army commander in the Pacific during WW2.

Question 11

collectivization

Answer 11

combining small farms into large factory-like farms.

Question 12

genocide

Answer 12

killing of an entire group of people

Question 13

totalitarianism

Answer 13

political leaders try to totally control the way citizens think and live

Question 14

appeasement

Answer 14

meeting another govts demands to avoid war

Question 15

Concentration camps

Answer 15

places where people are imprisoned because of their heritage, political beliefs, or religious views

Question 16

kristallnacht

Answer 16

night of shattered glass; Nov 9, 1938. Nazis burned synagogues, jewish shops and killed jews.

Question 17

Battle of Britain

Answer 17

air battle lasting for months before Hitler gave up on plans to invade Britain. It was Germany’s attempt to control England and was an air battle in London.

Question 18

Pearl Harbor

Answer 18

Dec 7, 1941, Japan bombs US Naval base in Hawaii, destroying most of the US Pacific fleet.

Question 19

D Day

Answer 19

June 6, 1944. The day that the allied invasion of France began.

Question 20

Nations that have fascists govts in the 1930s and 40s:

Answer 20

Japan, Germany, Italy

Question 21

The African country taken over by Italy:

Answer 21

Ethiopia

Question 22

Examples of how Hitler broke the treaty of Versailles:

Answer 22

builds new airforce
increased size of the army
sent troops to Rhineland in 1936 (invaded France)

Question 23

Events that led to the outbreak of war in Europe:

Answer 23

March 1938- Hitler annexes Austria
Sep 1938- Britain and France give into Hitler’s demands for Sudetenland
Mar 1939- Hitler takes control of all of Cz
Britain promises to defend Poland from Hitler
Sep 1 1939- Hitler invades Poland, beginning WW2 in Europe;
Britain and France declare war
Blitzkrieg starts (the beginning of the Battle of Britain)
Poland falls in a month
April 1940- Germany enters France
June 1940- Paris falls
Battle of Britain began

Question 24

the allies

Answer 24

US, Britain, France, China, and Russia

Question 25

the axis powers

Answer 25

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 26

tehran conference

Answer 26

- FDR, Churchill, Stalin meet to make plans for post-war Europe. They agreed to divide Germany to monitor after the war.

Question 27

Manhattan Project

Answer 27

Program to build the 1st atomic bomb

Question 28

What cities were the bombs dropped on?(don't have to know the dates)

Answer 28

Hiroshima Aug 6, 1945 | Nagasaki Aug 9, 1945

Question 29

The name of the US strategy for getting closer and closer to Japan

Answer 29

Island Hopping

Question 30

Nuremburg trials

Answer 30

special war crimes trials that tried all the Nazi leaders. Took place in Nuremburg, Germany

Question 31

Who/what did Hitler blame for Germany’s problems?

Answer 31

inflation, the great depression, jews, France, the treaty of versailles

Question 32

What part of the govt took control of Japan in the early 1930s?

Answer 32

Japan's military

Question 33

Who signed a non-agression pact?

Answer 33

Russia and Germany, specifically Hitler and Stalin

Question 34

the Holocaust

Answer 34

genocide of the jewish people

Question 35

what happens to Hitler?

Answer 35

commits suicide

Question 36

United Nations

Answer 36

organization to investigate and propose settlements to international problems