World War II

Question 1

What were the two main causes of World War II

Answer 1

Mistreatment of Germany under the treaty of Versailles

Great Depression

Question 2

The Great Depression began with what event

Answer 2

Rise of dictators in Europe

Question 3

What two promises did Adolfo Hitler give to the German people if they elected him?

Answer 3

Revenge for German mistreatment in the Treaty of Versailles

To get Germany out of the depression

Question 4

List six groups that the Nazis considered to be “undesirables”, and needed to be cleansed from Germany?

Answer 4

Polish /Russian-Slavs 
Roma 
Jehovah Witness   
Homosexuals 
Handicapped 
Negroes 
Jews

Question 5

What was the legue of nations response to the aggressive actions of Japan, Italy, and Germany?

Answer 5

Nothing, because they were afraid of another Great War

Question 6

What event was used by Hitler as a “dress rehearsal” for World War II?

Answer 6

Spanish civil war

Question 7

How did Great Britain and France “appease” or give in to hitlers demands at the Munich Pact?

Answer 7

Because they didn’t want to war with Hitler

Question 8

Why were most German Jews refused asylum into countries during the 1930s?

Answer 8

Because of the Great Depression

Question 9

The _______ were brainwashed group of German young people who were fanatically loyal to Adolf Hitler

Answer 9

Hitler Youth.

Question 10

Whose country did Adolf Hitler consider a weak, “mongrel race”?

Answer 10

America

Question 11

What country did Adolf Hitler other than Germany was the only one that Hitler respected? Why did he respect this country?

Answer 11

Great Britain, they were powerful

Question 12

Name the four major Allied Powers in World War II

Answer 12

Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, USA

Question 13

Name the three major Axis Powers in World War II

Answer 13

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 14

___________ was code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union:

Answer 14

Operation Barbarossa

Question 15

______________ was the code name for D-Day, The battle of Normandy

Answer 15

Deliverance day

Question 16

________ means hatred of the Jews

Answer 16

Anti-Semitism

Question 17

What were Jewish people forced to wear to identify themselves to others?

Answer 17

The Star of David

Question 18

Nazis political/racial ideology was summarized in Adolf Hitlers book _________. “My struggle”

Answer 18

Mein Kompf

Question 19

What were the three major results of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 19

Usa enters World War II

United the people of the United States

Japanese Americans were faced into prison camps

Question 20

What 4 things did Hitler do in his “Final Solution” to rid Europe of the Jewish nation?

Answer 20

Immigration
Mobile death squads
Ghettos
Death camps

Question 21

During the _____________, 16,000 Americans and Filipino soldiers died on their way to POW used in WWII

Answer 21

Baton Death March

Question 22

Why did the United States decide to use the atomic bomb on Japan rather than to invade the country?

Answer 22

It would save American lives at cost of civilians

Question 23

List the results of World War II

Answer 23

About 65 million people died
Europe is in ruins
Great Britain lost its empire 
Cold War 
Nuclear age
Creation of Israel