Unit 7 WWII

Question 1

How did the Western Powers respond to Hitler’s violation of the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 1

they began to practice appeasement

Question 2

What spread due to the challenges of the Great Depression and why

Answer 2

pacifism because of hitler’s fascism

Question 3

What countries made up the Axis powers

Answer 3

Japan, Italy, Germany

Question 4

Who led the 1936 civil war in Spain and who was fighting

Answer 4

Francisco Franco and nationalists

Question 5

Who did Hitler want to join the Third Reich

Answer 5

all German speaking people

Question 6

What was the name of the union of Germany and Austria leading to a growing Nazi party

Answer 6

Anschluss

Question 7

What was the name of the region of Czechslovakia Hitler invade and annexed to grow his empire

Answer 7

Sudetenland

Question 8

What was the Munich pact, and did it hold up

Answer 8

Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier created this pact to keep the peace and Hitler promised he would stop annexing
NO

Question 9

What was the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939

Answer 9

Hitler signed non-aggression pact with Stalin

Question 10

Which event led Britain and France to declare war on Germany?

Answer 10

September 1939, when German forces invaded Poland

Question 11

What was blitzkrieg & who used it?

Answer 11

military campaign bringing swift victory using rapid surprise attacks, Nazis

Question 12

What is the Luftwaffe?

Answer 12

in charged of bombing airfields, factories, towns, and cities; attacked people troops quickly surrounding them

Question 13

Which countries did Hitler invade after he gained control of Poland?

Answer 13

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and part of Finland

Question 14

What happened at the Battle of Dunkirk?

Answer 14

british forces were trapped between the nazis and english channel brits sent all available naval vessels, merchant ships, and recreational boats across the channel to pick up stranded troops

Question 15

When did the French surrender to the Axis Powers?

Answer 15

June 22, 1940

Question 16

What was Vichy?

Answer 16

puppet state

Question 17

What was “the Blitz”?

Answer 17

the Luftwaffe bombing London for 57 nights, and later on occasionally

Question 18

What was Operation Barbarossa? Was it a good choice?

Answer 18

Hitler invading Soviet Union, and no

Question 19

What halted the Nazi’s progress into the Soviet Union?

Answer 19

did not have uniform for the cold, much of their technology froze, thousands starved for froze to death

Question 20

By what year did the Nazis have control of most of Europe?

Answer 20

1941

Question 20

What was the Lend-Lease Act of 1941?

Answer 20

allowed FDR to send war materials to countries that they felt were necessary to the safety of the U.S.

Question 20

What event brought the United States into WWII? When was this event?

Answer 20

when general Tojo ordered a surprise attack on the US naval base at the pearl harbor December 17, 1941

Question 21

What are concentration camps? Who was sent there?

Answer 21

places in areas where there were forced laborers, people mistreated, starvation, and executions Jews were mainly sent there along with disabled people, homosexuals, and plain criminals

Question 22

What horrific things did the Nazi doctors do in the concentration camps?

Answer 22

deadly experiments, many were gassed, many young ones worked to death, stripped from clothing, etc.

Question 23

What is genocide? What was the Holocaust? How many Jews had been killed by 1945?

Answer 23

acts that are meant to destroy a certain group of people Nazis killed many Jews this night and destroyed any buildings that had to do with Jews 6 million

Question 24

Describe the ghettos created by the Nazis. What were they for? Where were they located?

Answer 24

located in the restricted areas of the city, meant to isolate jews from everyone else, jews were stripped from clothing and belongings were taken from them

Question 25

What was the response from the Allied countries to the Jewish refugees?

Answer 25

they were hesitant and made excuses on why they couldn't help refugees

Question 26

Describe the liberation of the concentration camps. Who liberated them?

Answer 26

the liberators were tough soldiers but weren’t prepared to see all the dead bodies, ashes from crematoriums, some half-dead American and British soldiers

Question 27

What was the Independent Jewish Homeland?

Answer 27

the state of Israel

Question 28

How did the US treat Japanese Americans after the bombing at Pearl Harbor?

Answer 28

racially prejudice and security concerns led to internment of any Japanese descent

Question 29

How did the Allies launch airplanes/jets from the sea? -

Answer 29

aircraft carriers

Question 30

Which countries were part of the Allied Powers? Who were their leaders (name the Big Three)?

Answer 30

Great Britain, U.S., Soviet Union, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

Question 31

Explain D-Day (its purpose, who was involved, who was the general, where/when was it?)

Answer 31

June 6, 1944 invasion of France under Dwight D. Eisenhower 156,000 allied troops went across the English Channel and fought their way through water mines and rapid machine-gun fire

Question 32

What was the Battle of the Bulge?

Answer 32

Germany’s last major offensive attack and the Soviet advanced from the east

Question 33

What was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 33

a meeting to layout the final plans of war and post-war Europe

Question 34

What river did the US troops cross to close in on Germany?

Answer 34

Rhine

Question 35

What/when was V-E Day?

Answer 35

May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe

Question 36

What were some of the reasons that the Allied troops defeated the Nazis?

Answer 36

Hitler was too controlling of his army, he underestimated soviet union, dropped bombs on cities/factories

Question 37

What was the Bataan Death March?

Answer 37

Japaneses forced prisoners to march in the heat for more than 60 miles with barely any food/water

Question 38

Who was the general that led the Allies in the Pacific?

Answer 38

Douglas MacArthur

Question 39

How did the Japanese respond to the Allies turning their attention to the Pacific after winning the war in Europe?

Answer 39

they resisted by using kamkaze pilots for suicide missions, and crashed airplanes into american warships

Question 40

What was the Manhattan Project? How did this begin an arms race? Explain how the US used the atomic bomb

Answer 40

tested the 1st atomic bomb were very dangerous and brought terrible destruction used it on 2 japanese cities: nagasaki and hiroshima

Question 41

About how many people had been killed in WWII?

Answer 41

70-85 million

Question 42

What were the Nuremberg Trials? How did they relate to the Nuremberg laws?

Answer 42

about 200 germans and austrians were tried for their crimes against humanity it relates to the Nuremberg laws because the trials are based on the laws and discrimination Nazi's committed

Question 43

What is the United Nations? What is its purpose? What is the difference between the General Assembly & the Security Council?

Answer 43

50 nations that are supposed to keep the peace and provide a safe space to discuss differences the Security Council could veto any decisions while the General Assembly had 1 vote for each nation

Question 44

Describe the early acts of aggression of Germany, Italy, and Japan

Answer 44

Italy invaded Ethiopia with tanks, machine guns, poisonous gas, etc. Japan seized Manchuria and eastern china Hitler’s fascism (also annexing the Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland; building up their military; any betrayal of the treaty!) League of nations sanctioned italy

Question 45

Describe how the Axis powers gained control of most of Europe in 1941.

Answer 45

The Blitzkrieg, Luftwaffe, Wehrmacht, etc. Invaded Britain by launching massive air strikes Moved in on countries quickly (hitler) Hitler’s race obsessions led to him conquering nations of art, factories, and resources

Question 46

Describe the escalation of Hitler’s campaign against the Jews.

Answer 46

He created the Hitler youth group giving kids the idea that jews were polluting german culture Concentration camps included gassing, forced labor, starvation, execution, etc. Hitler annexing countries - holocaust - painful and deadly drug experiments were made on prisoners

Question 47

What changes did the Allies make at home to ensure that they had sufficient resources for fighting WWII?

Answer 47

Factories started to make more war materials than regular materials like tanks insteads of cars Citizens bought bonds and donating their money to their government Women started to replace men in war industry jobs Rationing supplies and campaign to the public