UNIT 7: WW2 + interwar period

Question 1

antisemitism

Answer 1

prejudice against jews

Question 2

Battle of Britian (1940)

Answer 2

When Germany invaded Britain and failed; still had to fight a two-front war

Question 3

Battle of Midway (1942)

Answer 3

US victory over Japan which was a turning point in the pacific

Question 4

Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43)

Answer 4

Germany was defeated, USSR begins pushing back to Berlin, turning point in Europe

Question 5

collectivization

Answer 5

the act of making something apply to a group of people as a whole rather than as individuals

Question 6

D-Day (1944)

Answer 6

Allies invaded the French coast of Normandy, begin freeing Western Europe from Nazi control

Question 7

Enabling Acts (1933)

Answer 7

Acts that were passed that suspended Germany’s democratic constitution that allowed Hitler to assume dictatorial powers

Question 7

Enabling Acts (1933)

Answer 7

Acts that were passed that suspended Germany’s democratic constitution that allowed Hitler to assume dictatorial powers

Question 8

Wannsee Conference

Answer 8

Nazis decided on the “Final Solution” the planned and organized genocide of all European Jews.

Question 9

Five Year Plans

Answer 9

Began to industrialization made the Soviet military much stronger but showed Stalin’s power but led to million of deaths

Question 10

Ghettos

Answer 10

where the jews were kept together in a concentrated place

Question 11

island-hopping

Answer 11

A US naval strategy in the Pacific

Question 12

League of Nations

Answer 12

Substituted by the United Nations

Question 13

Kristallnacht (1938)

Answer 13

A Nazi encouraged riot to kill hundreds of jews

Question 14

Mussolini

Answer 14

First Facist leader

Question 15

Manchura

Answer 15

Japan invaded and was the start to World War 2 in Asia

Question 16

Poland

Answer 16

Germany invaded and was the start to World War 2 in Europe

Question 17

Non-Aggression Pact

Answer 17

Germany and USSR agreed not to attack each other

Question 18

partition in Germany

Answer 18

Germany formally split into two independent nations

Question 19

passive resistance

Answer 19

The non-violent protest term

Question 20

Purges(in the USSR)

Answer 20

When they would killed non-soviets or anti-communist

Question 21

Rape of Nanking (1937)

Answer 21

When Japanese soldiers killed and raped thousands of people for sport.

Question 22

Salt March (1930)

Answer 22

When Indians were protesting for their independence to sell salt along with their human rights against the British

Question 23

Third Reich

Answer 23

The Nazi regime that was said to last for a thousand years

Question 24

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Answer 24

When the Allies came together to decide punishment for Germany including reparations, demilitarizing, giving up imperialized land and accepting blame for starting the war.

Question 25

Tripartite Pact (1940)

Answer 25

When Japan became the third member of the Axis Powers (Germany and Italy)

Question 26

Two-front war

Answer 26

When a country is having to face their opps on both sides

Question 27

Unconditional Surrender

Answer 27

Completely accepting that a force has been defeated and will accept punishment(happened to Germany and Japan)

Question 28

Warsaw Uprising (1943)

Answer 28

The most famous Jew uprising from the ghettos

Question 29

Weimar Republic

Answer 29

The government before the Nazi regime

Question 30

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 30

Encourage prejudice of jews

Question 31

blitzkrieg

Answer 31

lighting warefare

Question 32

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere formed

Answer 32

Japan conquered most of East Asia and established military rule

Question 33

Atomic bombs were dropped on

Answer 33

Hiroshima and nagasaki

Question 34

lebensraum

Answer 34

living space

Question 35

Schutzstaffel (SS)

Answer 35

Nazi stormtroopers

Question 36

Einsatzgruppen

Answer 36

Nazi kill squads

Question 37

Hideki Tojo

Answer 37

general of the Imperial Japanese Army who was charged with war crimes and died by execution

Question 38

Kamikaze

Answer 38

Suicide planes used by the Japanese

Question 39

Potsdam Conference

Answer 39

announced trials for Nazi officials, Stalin refused to hold free elections in his "freed" countries, Allies demanded that Japan surrender unconditionally