Unit Three Test: Post WWI-WWII (Holocaust)

Question 1

What did people discover while attempting to Return to Normalcy post WWI?

Answer 1

They discovered there was no normal. All the world and way of life that existed before the war was destroyed and there would be no return.

Question 2

Who was Charles Dawes and what was the Dawes plan?

Answer 2

Dawes was an American banker who came up with the Dawes plan as a means to revive the German economy.

Question 3

What were the three main agreements in the Dawes Plan?

Answer 3

1.) Ensured France and Belgium wouldn’t invade Germany.
2.)Break up the reparations owed into installments.
3.) the U.S. would loan Germany $2.5 Bil so they could pay back Britain and France, and then Britain and France could pay back the U.S.

Question 4

What is Democracy?

Answer 4

A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule freely based on the will of the majority.

Question 5

A government system in which a dictator determines everything; jobs, taxes, private property, education, and recreation, etc.

Answer 5

Totalitarian Dictatorship

Question 6

An economic system that supports the state ownership of the means of production and management of the economy.

Answer 6

Socialism

Question 7

An economic system in which a country’s the trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state.

Answer 7

Capitalism

Question 8

What is Communism?

Answer 8

A division of socialism that supports publically shared property and constant class warfare to overthrow the wealthy and redistribute their possessions to the lower class.

Question 9

What is Fascism?

Answer 9

A belief that violent warfare is the only way to keep a nation strong. It also supports the idea people do not have individual rights, their only value is what they can contribute to the state.

Question 10

what is Nazism?

Answer 10

A belief that the individuals who are not contributing to the state are harming the state and must be removed to secure the purity and dominance of the nation

Question 11

A form of biological racism that states not only are there certain races less than others but they are genetically inferior people and must be eliminated.

Answer 11

Eugenics

Question 12

who was Joseph Stalin?

Answer 12

He was the communist leader of the Soviet Union in Russia. He began collectivization un which the government took control of all the private farms and moved people off their land. He is also responsible for more deaths than in the holocaust.

Question 13

Who was Benito Mussolini

Answer 13

The fascist leader of Italy was responsible for the development of fascism, He also formed an alliance with Hitler. He encouraged Hitler to abolish personal liberties and conduct ethnic cleansing.

Question 14

Who was Adolf Hitler?

Answer 14

He was the fascist leader of Germany who rose to power with the use of fear and manipulation. He wanted to unite all of Europe under German rule because he believed they were the one pure race. He is also responsible for the formation of the Nazi political party.

Question 15

Through political manipulation, Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany and the first law he passed gave him total dictatorial control.

Answer 15

Enabling Act

Question 16

The secret police of Germany quickly found and exiled/executed political enemies.

Answer 16

Gestapo

Question 17

What was it called when the other nations would give in to Hitler’s demands to prevent another war?

Answer 17

Appeasement

Question 18

What happened when Hitler voided the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 18

He ended demilitarization and begun to build up the strength of the German army, navy, and air force.

Question 19

Why did no one stop Hitler when he voided the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 19

leaders thought Hitler was not trying to be aggressive and that he was just trying to undo the “crimes of Versailles”.

Question 20

the demilitarized zone installed by the Treaty of Versailles that Hitler invaded, placing troops right next to the French border.

Answer 20

The Rhineland

Question 21

in March 1938, Germany declares that Austria will join the German Empire and Hitler sent troops the next day.

Answer 21

the Annexation of Austria

Question 22

In October of 1938, Hitler invades the northern portion of Czechoslovakia saying it was pro-Nazi and belonged to the German Empire.

Answer 22

Sudentenland

Question 23

What was the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939?

Answer 23

Hitler offered Stalin a peace treaty that promised both nations would remain neutral if either entered a war. They also agreed to split Poland between them if war did break out.

Question 24

What happened in Poland on September 1st, 1939?

Answer 24

Hitler invades Poland. He believed the European nations were weak and did not believe in their threats to declare war. France and Great Britan declared war the following day.

Question 25

What was the alliance between Italy and Germany, where they promised to defend each other militarily and protect the ideals of Fascism and Nazism?

Answer 25

The Rome-Berlin Axis

Question 26

Who were the Axis Powers?

Answer 26

Japan, Italy, and Germany

Question 27

Who were the Allied Powers?

Answer 27

Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, and the United States

Question 28

Also known as the “lightning war” where the use of German planes, tanks, and trucks to annihilate the enemy with lightning speed.

Answer 28

Blitzkrieg

Question 29

What happened at the Battle of Dunkirk?

Answer 29

Hitler’s quick success surprised the Allies who became trapped at the Belgium coastal town of Dunkirk. Heroic efforts by the British, who enlisted everything that would float to carry men back to England, saved most of the troops but not the equipment.

Question 30

what was the Battle of Britain (1940)?

Answer 30

German Luftwaffe: air raid of Great Britain, Hitler bombs the British cities to break their people but it only strengthened their resolve.

Question 31

The Germans broke peace wit the Soviets and fought brutally at Leningrad and Stalingrad.

Answer 31

Invasion of the Soviet Union

Question 32

Why do the Japanese enter the war?

Answer 32

they wanted to prove their strength and independence from the west as the U.S (formerly their allies) had imposed strong sanctions on them due to their genocidal practices.

Question 33

Japan attacked what U.S. Naval base ing Hawaii drawing the U.S. officially into the war?

Answer 33

Pearl Harbor

Question 34

what was the U.S. stratagy in the pacific war to eventually get close enough to attack mainland Japan?

Answer 34

Island hopping

Question 35

what was the Holocaust?

Answer 35

the mass destruction/slaughter of Jews, the disabled, Roma, Poles, Slavs, Queer, and all who opposed the Nazi regime.

Question 36

what were the Nuremburg Laws if 1935?

Answer 36

laws passed that forbade Jews from owning a home or business and stripped them of their citizenship.

Question 37

what happened on Kristallnacht?

Answer 37

The Gestapo raided Jewish homes and places of worship, they destroyed them and raided them for all their valuable possessions.

Question 38

posters and advertisements that convinced the German people of the virtue of their mission.

Answer 38

propaganda

Question 39

what was the Warsaw Uprising?

Answer 39

in 1943, the Jewish Fighter Organization (ZOB) used weapons that had been smuggled in and overtook the Ghetto. They held it for a month until the Germans sent in tanks and machine guns and burned down the ghetto. the Nazis murdered the remaining 60,000 inhabitants.

Question 40

Many Jews, Poles, and Slavs that escaped formed small militias that attacked small bands of German soldiers or their supply lines.

Answer 40

Guerilla Warfare