The World in WWII

Question 1

One of Europe’s first dictators arose in _____.

Answer 1

Italy

Question 2

In 1919 _______ founded Italy’s Fascist Movement.

Answer 2

Benito Mussolini

Question 3

_________ wasan aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual.

Answer 3

Fascism

Question 4

_______ believe that order in society and national greatness came through a dictator who led a strong government and built an empire.

Answer 4

Fascists

Question 5

Fascism is also strongly ______.

Answer 5

anti-communist

Question 6

Benito Mussolini was backed by the ________, a fascist militia

Answer 6

Blackshirts

Question 7

After the Russian Revolution, the communist party, led by Vladimir Lenin, created the _________. (USSR)x

Answer 7

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 8

After Lenin died in 1924, ______ came to power

Answer 8

Stalin

Question 9

_______ were government owned farms

Answer 9

Collectives

Question 10

_________ was a fervent nationalist that hated the Allies and the German government that accepted their peace terms in WWII

Answer 10

Adolf Hitler

Question 11

Hitler became the leader of the ______ Party

Answer 11

Nazi

Question 12

The Nazi Party is the ______

Answer 12

National Socialist German Worker’s Party

Question 13

The Nazi Party was _____.

Answer 13

Anti-Semitic

Question 14

Hitler wrote ______ while he was in prison

Answer 14

Mein Kampf

Question 15

In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote that the German were part of a master race called the “_______”

Answer 15

Aryans

Question 16

Benito Mussolini took the title of _______.

Answer 16

Il Duce

Question 17

The lower house of German parliament is known as the _________.

Answer 17

Reichstag

Question 18

Hitler took the title of _______.

Answer 18

Der Fuhrer

Question 19

In 19919 Japan invaded a rich region of northern China known as _________.

Answer 19

Manchuria

Question 20

_________ asked Hideki Tojo withdraw troops from China

Answer 20

Emperor Hirohiot

Question 21

European leader tried to negotiate with Hitler to prevent a _________.

Answer 21

repeat of WWI

Question 22

Hitler wanted to annex _______ and ________ into Germany

Answer 22

Austria and Czechoslovakia

Question 23

Hitler sent troops into Austria and announced the ________ or unification of Austria and Germany

Answer 23

Anschluss

Question 24

On September 29, 1938, __________ was held between Germany, France, and Britain.

Answer 24

The Munich conference

Question 25

In the Munich Conference, Britain and France adopted a policy known as _______

Answer 25

Appeasement

Question 26

__________ is giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid an all-out conflict

Answer 26

Appeasement

Question 27

a month after the Munich Conference, Hitler demanded that the city of ________ be returned to Germany

Answer 27

Danzig

Question 28

The germans used a new type of warfare called ________.

Answer 28

blitzkrieg

Question 29

Blitzkrieg means ________.

Answer 29

lightning war

Question 30

The Germans crossed the ________ to surprise the Allied forces waiting on them

Answer 30

Ardennes Mountians

Question 31

On June 4th 338k British and french troops were saved at the ________.

Answer 31

Miracle of Dunkirk

Question 32

The German Air force was known as the _______.

Answer 32

Luftewaffe

Question 33

________ was a group against the war

Answer 33

Americans First committee

Question 34

________ was a group for the war

Answer 34

Fight for Freedom Committee

Question 35

FDR proposed the _________ that the US would lend or lease arms to any country considered vital to US defense

Answer 35

Lend-Lease Act

Question 36

___________ continued the ban on selling arms to warring countries and requiring them to buy all nonmilitary supplies

Answer 36

Neutrality Act of 1937

Question 37

_______ made it illegal to sell arms to warring countries

Answer 37

Neutrality Act of 1935

Question 38

_______ reported the huge profits that arms factories had made during the war and had created the impression that these businesses had influenced the decision to go to war

Answer 38

Nye committee

Question 39

Britain would test American neutrality when they asked the US for _________

Answer 39

old destroyers to replenish their fleet

Question 40

the _________ declared that the atlantic hemisphere was neutral

Answer 40

hemisphere defense zone

Question 41

The _______ committed the US and Britain to a postwar world of democracy,nonaggression,free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas

Answer 41

Atlantic Charter

Question 42

THe Hebrew term Shoah means _____

Answer 42

catastrophe

Question 43

Nazis met at the ______ to coordinate the final decision of the Jewish question

Answer 43

Wannsee

Question 44

The _______ took away citizenship from Jews and outlawed the marriage of Germans and Jews

Answer 44

Nuremberg Laws