World War 2

Question 0

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 0

Leader of Russia and then the Soviet Union

Question 1

Benito Mussolini

Answer 1

Fascist leader of Italy

Question 2

USSR

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, created by Lenin

Question 3

Capital of Soviet Russia

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Moscow

Question 4

Joseph Stalin

Answer 4

Took over Russia after Lenin’s death in 1924

Question 5

NSDAP

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National sozialistische Deutshe Arbeit Partei “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” Hitler mad it aka the Nazi Party

Question 6

Manifesto

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Wrote Mein Kamp about his beliefs of Nationalism, anti-semitism, and anti-communism

Question 7

Master race

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Aryan, perfect race of people who’re descendants of Ancient Romans and Greeks

Question 8

Living room

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“Lebensraum”- for his perfect race to live in with plenty of room

Question 9

Empire

Answer 9

The Third Reich in model of the Roman Empire and the German Empire (pre-WWI)

Question 10

Rhineland

Answer 10

Buffer zone between France and Germany, but on German land. It was demilitarized, so it had no troops or weapons until Hitler violated it by marching his troops through it

Question 11

Rome Berlin Axis

Answer 11

Italian and German alliance between Hitler and Mussolini because they both dreamed of perfect empires

Question 12

Anti-Comintern Act

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Against communism between Germany and Japan

Question 13

Nazi Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Answer 13

Signed Aug 23, 1939
Promise not to attack each other
Promise Stalin control of eastern Poland and the Balkans

Question 14

Official start of WWII

Answer 14

Germany attacked Poland on Sep. 1, 1939

On September 3 Britain and France declared war on Germany

Question 15

Allies

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Great Britain, US, and Soviet Union

Question 16

Axis powers

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Germany, Japan, and Italy

Question 17

Official end to WWII

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Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945 60 million people had died

Question 18

Holocaust

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6 million Jews were killed. There was lots of murder, death camps, starvation, and medical experiments

Question 19

Anti-semitism

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Hatred of Jews

Question 20

Josef Mengele

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“Angel of Death”; experimented in Auschwitz, fled to South America after war ended

Question 21

Leningrad

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Capital of the Soviet Union used to be Petrograd. Under siege for 900 days; named after Lenin died to honor him and this battle was called the “Battle of Machines”

Question 22

Women on the home front

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Rosie the riveter was a propaganda poster encouraging women

Soviet Union women were allowed in combat!

Question 23

Tehran Conference

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In Iran; “big three negotiators” (US, GB, SU) decide the future course of the war and their final assault on Germany in Spring of 1944

Question 24

Yalta Conference

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In Ukraine in Feb of 1945; creation of the United Nations; Polish gains independence; gets Germany to surrender and divide Germany into 4 zones for control by US, GB, SU, and France

Question 25

Potsdam Conference

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In Germany; Harry Truman demands free elections in Eastern Europe, but Stalin disagrees because he wants security for the SU

Question 26

Nuremberg

Answer 26

In Germany; the trials for Nazi leaders’ crimes were held here