Wh Ch 25 (WWII) :)

Question 1

the dictator of Italy during WW2

Answer 1

Benito Mussolini

Question 2

what idea did Mussolini bring to italy’s government

Answer 2

Fascism

Question 3

what year is Mussolini take over italy

Answer 3

1933

Question 4

took control of Germany in 1933

Answer 4

Adolf Hitler

Question 5

the socialist party of Germany that eventually became the government ideal of Germany

Answer 5

Nazism

Question 6

Hitler’s biography: described his racist, humanistic philosophy

Answer 6

Mien Kampf

Question 7

Germany’s legislative body

Answer 7

Reichstag

Question 8

Hitler’s title

Answer 8

Der Fuhrer

Question 9

The name of Hitler’s reign

Answer 9

Third Reich

Question 10

the systematic murder of 6 million Jews and other inferior races to eradicate them

Answer 10

The Holocaust

Question 11

leader of Japan

Answer 11

Gen. Hideki Tojo

Question 12

form of governments in Japan

Answer 12

Militarism

Question 13

official head of the Jap. Govt.

Answer 13

Emperor Hirohito

Question 14

socialist leader of Russia

Answer 14

Stalin

Question 15

The U.S. officially recognized the Communist govt. in Russia in what year

Answer 15

1933

Question 16

what area did Japan attack to begin the aggression of WWII

Answer 16

Manchuria and China

Question 17

leader of nationalist forces of China

Answer 17

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 18

leader of the Communist forces of China

Answer 18

Mao Tse-tung

Question 19

American gen. who led the “Flying tigers”

Answer 19

Claire Chennault

Question 20

Italy invaded Ethiopia in what year

Answer 20

1935

Question 21

Japan,Germany,Italy: formed the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis

Answer 21

Axis powers

Question 22

P.M. of Eng. who negotiated the Munich Pact with Hitler: “peace in our times”

Answer 22

Neville Chamberlain

Question 23

french fortification built to oppose the nazis

Answer 23

Maginot Line

Question 24

lightning war

Answer 24

Blitzkrieg

Question 25

after Poland,there were no battles for 7 months until Germany conquered Denmark and Norway

Answer 25

Sitzkrieg

Question 26

traitor installed as the head of Nazi government in Norway

Answer 26

Vidkin Quisling

Question 27

The German army overwhelmed the Allies in France & pushed them back to Dunkirk English civilians evacuated 300,000 Allied soldiers

Answer 27

Dunkirk

Question 28

location of France’s government granted to them after they surrendered to Hitler in 1940

Answer 28

Vichy

Question 29

germany's underground line net work

Answer 29

sigfre line

Question 30

led the French resistance against Germany

Answer 30

Charles de Gaulle

Question 31

new P.M. of England after N. Chamberlain resigned; the 20th century's greatest statesmen

Answer 31

Winston Churchill

Question 32

Hitler's plan to invade and conquer England

Answer 32

Operation Sea Lion

Question 33

the German air force that bombed England for months

Answer 33

The Luftwaffe

Question 34

what battle was germany's first major defeat

Answer 34

Battle of Britain

Question 35

German warships designed after the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 35

"Pocket Battleships"

Question 36

Germany reconquered the Northern African Territory under the leadership of who

Answer 36

Erwin Rommel

Question 37

Hitler broke his alliance with Russia and invaded in what year

Answer 37

1941

Question 38

The U.S declared neutrality before the war began in what act

Answer 38

Neutrality act of 1937

Question 39

Congress allowed FDR to trade,loan, or lease war materials with the Allied Nations

Answer 39

Lend-Lease Act

Question 40

what area did Japan invade that made America cut off all relations to Japan

Answer 40

Indochina

Question 41

Which american gun boat was sunk on the Yangtze river

Answer 41

Panay

Question 42

On what day was Pearl Harbor

Answer 42

December 7,1941

Question 43

how many American soldiers died on Pearl Harbor

Answer 43

3,500

Question 44

failed allied attempt to gain a foothold in Europe in 1942

Answer 44

Dieppe

Question 45

American general who became commander of all Allied forces in Europe

Answer 45

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 46

who led troops at El Alamein

Answer 46

General Bernard Montgomery

Question 47

led allies from N. Africa and invaded Italy

Answer 47

George Patton

Question 48

Germans didn't surrender Italy until when

Answer 48

1944

Question 49

second generation; Japanese-American soldiers

Answer 49

Nisei

Question 50

defeated Germany at Stalingrad

Answer 50

Russia

Question 51

Death day date.

Answer 51

June 6,1944

Question 52

Germany's last major counterattack in the Ardennes forest (The west)

Answer 52

Battle of the Bulge

Question 53

Hitler committed suicide on what day

Answer 53

April 30,1945

Question 54

Germany surrendered on what day

Answer 54

May 8,1945 (V-E Day)

Question 55

meeting to discuss the fate of free nations and a post-war peace org.

Answer 55

Tehran

Question 56

what was the name of the leaders of the allies at Yalta

Answer 56

"Big Three"

Question 57

1st permanent world peace organization

Answer 57

United Nations

Question 58

met to discuss the fate of Germany

Answer 58

Potsdam

Question 59

was sent to the Philippines to prepare them for defense against Japan

Answer 59

General Douglas MacArthur

Question 60

march of Japanese prisoners of war to a prison camp in Bataan; thousands were murdered

Answer 60

Bataan death march

Question 61

led the 1st air raids on the islands of Japan

Answer 61

Jimmy Doolittle

Question 62

first naval battle where naval ships never saw each other

Answer 62

Battle of Coral Sea

Question 63

the turning point of the war in the Pacific

Answer 63

Battle of Midway

Question 64

a technique through which the U.S. land forces strategically assaulted & liberated important Pacific islands from Japan

Answer 64

Island Hopping

Question 65

commander-in-chief of U.S. Pacific fleet

Answer 65

Admiral Chester Nimitz

Question 66

keystone of Japanese Defense; the Caps. lost Saipan after the Battle of the Philippine Sea

Answer 66

Saipan

Question 67

Strategic island for America to attack Japan from Conquered after the death of almost all of the Japanese defenders

Answer 67

Iwo Jima

Question 68

FDR passed away of a stroke in April of 1945 who was the VP, who became the next President

Answer 68

Harry S. Truman

Question 68

Japanese suicide pilots who launched attacks on American ships

Answer 68

kamikazes

Question 69

called for unconditional Japanese surrender

Answer 69

Potsdam Declaration

Question 70

During the 1940s, a U.S. research team developed the atomic bomb Albert Einstein & J. Robert Oppenheimer were involved in August 1945, America dropped 2 atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Answer 70

Manhattan project

Question 71

on what day did Japan surrendered to the Allies; World War II was over

Answer 71

September 2, 1945

Question 72

The attempted genocide of the Jewish people by Hitler & the Nazis. Gestapo (secret police) & the SS (fanatical Nazis) were his tools for accomplishing this goal

Answer 72

Holocaust

Question 73

Some of Hitler’s most famous henchmen

Answer 73

Hermann Göring, Adolf Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, & Rudolf Höss

Question 74

a “utopian” document signed by the U.S. & G.B. encouraging steps for world peace

Answer 74

Atlantic Charter