World War 2

Question 1

Kellogg - Briand pact

Answer 1

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

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. Among its important sites are Lalibela with its rock-cut Christian churches from the 12th–13th centuries. Aksum is the ruins of an ancient city with obelisks, tombs, castles and Our Lady Mary of Zion church.

Question 3

appeasement

Answer 3

the action or process of appeasing.

Question 4

axis powers

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a group of countries that opposed the Allied powers in World War II, including Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia.

Question 5

allied powers

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The victorious allied nations of World War I and World War II. In World War I, the Allies included Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and the United States.

Question 6

Munich conference

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An agreement between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia in which German-speaking peoples lived.

Question 7

anti - comitern

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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 non Agression pact

Answer 8

A treaty made by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 that opened the way for both nations to invade Poland. ( See invasion of Poland.)

Question 9

sanction

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a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

Question 10

demilitarized

Answer 10

remove all military forces from (an area).

Question 11

Winston churchill

Answer 11

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 Gavlle

Answer 12

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

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A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships.

Question 14

sudetenland

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is the German name (used in English in the first half of the 20th century) to refer to those northern, southern, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by ethnic German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia

Question 15

Seige of leningrad

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in the Soviet Union by German and Finnish armed forces during World War II. The siege actually lasted 872 days.

Question 16

battle of Stanlingrad

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A major battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II.

Question 17

phony war

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is the name given to the period of time in World War Two from September 1939 to April 1940 when, after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, seemingly nothing happened.

Question 18

isolantionist

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

Question 19

battle of Britan

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was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attacks from the end of June 1940.

Question 20

lend - lease act

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passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war. verb (used with object), lend-leased, lend-leasing.

Question 21

I.V.E day

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the day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945.

Question 22

D - day

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the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.

Question 23

new order

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a new system, regime, or government

Question 24

final solution

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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

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

Question 26

auschwitz

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was one of the largest concentration camps from the Holocaust during World War Two.

Question 27

FDR

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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

was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army.

Question 29

Warsaw Ghetto uprising

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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

Question 30

Genocide

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

Question 31

Poland

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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.

Question 32

United Nations

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is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries.

Question 33

Kamikaze

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a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

Question 34

mobilization

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

Question 35

island hopping

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

Question 36

atomic bomb

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a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity.

Question 37

hiroshima

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A city of southwest Honshu, Japan, on the Inland Sea west of Osaka.

Question 38

nagasaki

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is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu.

Question 39

Bretton Woods conference

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officially known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was a gathering of delegates from 44 nations that met from July 1 to 22, 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to agree upon a series of new rules for the post-WWII international monetary system.

Question 40

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 41

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 42

concentration camp

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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 43

Nanjing

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capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province, is roughly 300km up the Yangtze River from the city of Shanghai.

Question 44

Atlantic charter

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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 45

operator overload

Answer 45

is a specific case of polymorphism (part of the OO nature of the language) in which some or all operators like +, = or == are treated as polymorphic functions and as such have different behaviors depending on the types of its arguments.

Question 46

Nuremberg trials

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were a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had committed during World War II.

Question 47

quilt India

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is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of three layers of fiber:

Question 48

Bataan March

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was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saisaih Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O’Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San

Question 49

kings African rifles

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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 50

normandy

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a region in N France along the English Channel: invaded and settled by Scandinavians in the 10th century, becoming a duchy in a.d. 911; later a province, the capital of which was Rouen; Allied invasion in World War II began here June 6, 1944.

Question 51

invasion

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

Question 52

aggression

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hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront.

Question 53

Hailie selassie

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1891–1975, emperor of Ethiopia 1930–74: in exile 1936–41.

Question 54

mutilation

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the action of mutilating or being mutilated.

Question 55

Mein Kampf

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is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.