World War 2

Question 1

Leader of Italy?

Answer 1

Mussolini

Question 2

Aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual?

Answer 2

Fascism

Question 3

What does USSR stand for?

Answer 3

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 4

Leader of Germany?

Answer 4

Hitler

Question 5

What’s the real name of the Nazi party?

Answer 5

National Socialist German Worker’s party

Question 6

The lower house of the German parliament?

Answer 6

Reichstag

Question 7

Minister of War for Japan?

Answer 7

Tojo

Question 8

What does Der Fuhrer mean?

Answer 8

The Leader

Question 9

The invasion of Nanking is also known as the ________?

Answer 9

Rape of Nanking

Question 10

What is Anschluss?

Answer 10

Unification

Question 11

Giving in to unjust demands to avoid-all out conflict

Answer 11

Appeasement

Question 12

What country did Germany divide when it was invaded in 1939?

Answer 12

Czechoslovakia

Question 13

“Lightning war”; method of warfare that used mass tanks and waves of aircraft and paratroopers to break through enemy defenses

Answer 13

Blitzkrieg

Question 14

June 4, an estimated 338k people were saved at ____________

Answer 14

Miracle at Dunkirk

Question 15

German air force

Answer 15

Luftwaffe

Question 16

What act made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war?

Answer 16

Neutrality act of 1935

Question 17

Held hearings to investigate allegations against arms manufacturers

Answer 17

Senator Gerald P. Nye

Question 18

Continued the ban on arms sales and required countries to buy non-military supplies on a “Cash-and-Carry” basis

Answer 18

Neutrality Act of 1937

Question 19

Conference where Britain and France agreed to appeasement with Germany?

Answer 19

Munich conference

Question 20

Air battle between the British and Germany?

Answer 20

Battle of Britain

Question 21

What are the Four Freedoms?

Answer 21

Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear

Question 22

Wanted the repeal of neutrality laws and stronger actions against Germany?

Answer 22

Fight for Freedom Committee

Question 23

Allowed the lend or lease of arms to any country deemed vital to the “defense of the US?”

Answer 23

Lend-Lease Act

Question 24

Declared that the entire western half of the Atlantic was of the western hemisphere and therefore neutral?

Answer 24

Hemisphere Defense Zone

Question 25

Created by Roosevelt and Churchill in 1941; Committed both nations to a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas?

Answer 25

Atlantic Charter

Question 26

Items important for fighting a war?

Answer 26

Strategic materials

Question 27

Opposed any intervention to help the allies?

Answer 27

America First Committee

Question 28

Meeting to discuss the “final solution to the jewish question?”

Answer 28

Wannsee conference

Question 29

Took citizenship from Jews and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans?

Answer 29

Nuremberg laws

Question 30

Mass extermination of millions of European Jews?

Answer 30

Holocaust

Question 31

Hebrew term for Holocaust; means “catastrophe”

Answer 31

Shoah

Question 32

Camps where men, women, and children were sent to be executed?

Answer 32

Extermination camps

Question 33

Camps where people were detained and confined?

Answer 33

Concentration camps

Question 34

December 11, who declared war on the US?

Answer 34

Germany and Italy

Question 35

December 7, 1941 Japan attacked what naval base?

Answer 35

Pearl Harbor

Question 36

What port did Germany demand that was taken from it after WW1?

Answer 36

Danzig

Question 37

Emperor of Japan during WW2?

Answer 37

Horihito

Question 38

Capital of Poland?

Answer 38

Warsaw