world war 2

Question 1

Kellogg-Briand

Answer 1

The Kellogg–Briand Pact is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.

Question 2

Ethiopia

Answer 2

Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is a rugged, landlocked country split by the Great Rift Valley. With archaeological finds dating back more than 3 million years, it’s a place of ancient culture.

Question 3

Appeasement

Answer 3

the action or process of appeasing

Question 4

Axis powers

Answer 4

The Axis powers, also known as the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied Powers.

Question 5

Allied Powers

Answer 5

The Allies of World War I were the countries that opposed the Central Powers in the First World War.

Question 6

Munich conference

Answer 6

The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations.

Question 7

Anti comitern

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The Anti-Comintern Pact was an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan (later to be joined by other, mainly fascist, governments) on November 25, 1936 and was directed against the Third (Communist) International.

Question 8

German-soviet nonagression

Answer 8

On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.

Question 9

Sanction

Answer 9

a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

Question 10

Demiliterized

Answer 10

remove all military forces from (an area).

Question 11

Winston Churwill

Answer 11

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD PC PCc DL FRS RA was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

Question 12

Charles De Gaulle

Answer 12

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman. He was the leader of Free France and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Question 13

Pearl Harbor

Answer 13

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Question 14

Sudetenland

Answer 14

The Sudetenland is the German name to refer to those northern, southern, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by ethnic German speakers, specifically the border districts

Question 15

Seige of leningrad

Answer 15

The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army Group North against Leningrad, historically and currently known as

Question 16

Battle of stalingrad

Answer 16

The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army Group North against Leningrad, historically and currently known as

Question 17

Phony war

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The Phoney War was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front.

Question 18

Isolantionist

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a person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Question 19

Battle of Britain

Answer 19

The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940.

Question 20

Lend-leaseact

Answer 20

Military aid to Britain was greatly facilitated by the Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, in which Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to ‘any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.’”

Question 21

Ive day

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Victory in Europe Day 2017 in United States of America

Question 22

D-Day

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The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

Question 23

New order

Answer 23

a new system, regime, or government.

Question 24

Final solution

Answer 24

the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.

Question 25

Holocaust

Answer 25

destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.

Question 26

Auschwitz

Answer 26

AUSCHWITZ WAS ONE of the largest concentration camps from the Holocaust during World War Two. Lessons from Auschwitz. A WOMAN aged 91 has been charged over the murders of 260,000 innocent Jews in Nazi death camp Auschwitz.

Question 27

FDR

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Question 28

Douglas McArthur

Answer 28

Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

Question 29

Wasaw Ghetto uprisingly

Answer 29

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany’s final effort

Question 30

Midway Highlands

Answer 30

The Midway Plaisance, known locally as the Midway, is a Chicago public park on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is one mile long by 220 yards wide and extends along 59th and 60th streets, joining Washington Park at its east end and Jackson Park at its west end. It divides the Hyde Park community area to the north from the Woodlawn community area to the south, 6 miles (10 km) south of the downtown “Loop”, near Lake Michigan.

Question 31

Genocide

Answer 31

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Question 32

Poland

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Poland is an eastern European country on the Baltic Sea known for its medieval architecture and Jewish heritage. Warsaw, the capital, has shopping and nightlife, plus the Warsaw Uprising Museum, honoring the city’s WWII-era resistance to German occupation. In the city of Kraków, 14th-century Wawel Castle rises above the medieval old town, home to Cloth Hall, a Renaissance trading post in Rynek Glówny (market square).

Question 33

United nations

Answer 33

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945

Question 34

Kamikaze

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Kamikaze, officially Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, abbreviated as Tokkō Tai, and used as a verb as Tokkō, were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the .

Question 35

Mobilization

Answer 35

the action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active service.

Question 36

Island Hopping

Answer 36

travel from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands.

Question 37

Atomic bond

Answer 37

A chemical bond is a lasting attraction between atoms that enables the formation of chemical compounds. The bond may result from the electrostatic force of attraction between atoms with opposite charges, or through the sharing of electrons as in the covalent bonds.

Question 38

Hiroshima

Answer 38

The United States, at the order of President Harry S. Truman, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War II.

Question 39

Nagasaki

Answer 39

Nagasaki is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu. It’s set on a large natural harbor, with buildings on the terraces of surrounding hills.

Question 40

Bretton woods Conference

Answer 40

The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated .

Question 41

Truman doctrine

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the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.

Question 42

Vj day

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the day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered.

Question 43

concentration camp

Answer 43

a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.

Question 44

Nanjing

Answer 44

The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Question 45

Atlantic Charter

Answer 45

The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued during World War II on 14 August 1941, which defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. The leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States drafted the work and all the Allies of World War II later confirmed it.

Question 46

Operation overload

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Operation Overlord was the code-name given to the Allied invasion of France scheduled for June 1944. The overall commander of Operation Overlord was General Dwight Eisenhower.

Question 47

Nuremberg trials

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city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany: site of international trials (1945–46) of Nazis accused of war crimes. Expand. German Nürnberg. … Inside the Nazi Mind at the Nuremberg Trials Thomas Harding September 6, 2013.

Question 48

quilt india

Answer 48

Quilt. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. … A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of three layers of fiber: a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back, combined using the technique of quilting, the process of sewing the three layers together.

Question 49

Batoqn March germany

Answer 49

The March” refers to a series of forced marches during the final stages of the Second World War in Europe. From a total of 257,000 western Allied prisoners of war held in German military prison camps, over 80,000 POWs were forced to march westward across Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany in extreme winter conditions, over about four months between January and April 1945. This series of events has been called various names:

Question 50

kings africans Rifles

Answer 50

The King’s African Rifles was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from Britain’s various possessions in British East Africa in the present-day African Great Lakes region from 1902 until independence in the 1960s.

Question 51

Normandy

Answer 51

Normandy is a region of northern France. Its varied coastline includes white-chalk cliffs and WWII beachheads, including Omaha Beach, site of the famous D-Day landing. Just off the coast, the rocky island of Mont-Saint-Michel is topped by a soaring Gothic abbey. The city of Rouen, dominated by Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen, is where military leader and Catholic saint Joan of Arc was executed in 1431.

Question 52

Invasion

Answer 52

an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force.