The World Wars

Question 1

Archduke Francis Ferdinand (WW1)

Answer 1

Assassinated in hopes that the Austro-Hungarian Empire would declare war on Serbia. Started WW1.

Question 2

Schlieffen Plan (WW1)

Answer 2

A plan established prior to WW1 that in case of the outbreak of war, Germany would attack France first and then Russia. It failed lol

Question 3

Fritz Haber

Answer 3

Father of Chemical warfare. Won a noble prize for chemistry and his creation of fertilizer

Question 4

Zyklon B

Answer 4

A pesticide made by Harber. It was eventually used to gas Jews in camps.

Question 5

Appeasement Diplomacy
(British Foreign Policy WWII)

Answer 5

Britain gave Hitler his territorial demands in an attempt to avoid war.

Question 6

Volksgemeinshaft (WW2)

Answer 6

German propaganda to unify the people across classes in support of the war.

Question 7

Battle of Britain (WW2)

Answer 7

A major World War II air campaign. British victory.

Question 8

June 22, 1941 / Operation Barbossa (WW2)

Answer 8

Germany invaded the Soviet Union, ending the nonaggression pact between the two countries.

Question 9

Kristallnacht (WW2)

Answer 9

Violent riots against Jews in November of 1938

Question 10

Erwin Rommel (WW2)

Answer 10

A German field marshal who commanded the Afrika Korps during World War II

Question 11

Holocaust (WW2)

Answer 11

The genocide and assassination of 6 million Jews under Nazi Germany

Question 12

Lebensraum (WW2)

Answer 12

Translates to “living space.” Hitler’s desire to expand the country.