World War II

Question 1

Why did Japan adopt a policy of Imperialism prior to WWII?

Answer 1

They lacked natural resources

Question 2

Which places did Japan takeover prior to WWII?

Answer 2

Korea, Manchuria (China)

Question 3

How was Italy aggressive prior to WWII?

Answer 3

Took over Ethiopia

Question 4

Name three ways Hitler was aggressive prior to WWII?

Answer 4

Built up military, occupied Rhineland, annexed Austria, invaded the Sudentenland (Czechoslovakia)

Question 5

Which peace-keeping organization failed to keep the peace leading up to WWII?

Answer 5

League of Nations

Question 6

How did European leaders address Hitler’s aggression prior to WWII? What conference did they call?

Answer 6

Appeasement, Munich Conference

Question 7

What does appeasement mean?

Answer 7

Give into the demands of an aggressor to keep the peace

Question 8

What was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?

Answer 8

Allians between Hitler and Stalin to jnvade Poland

Question 9

What was the official beginning of WWII?

Answer 9

Invasion of Poland

Question 10

Which tactic was used by the Germans on Poland?

Answer 10

Blitzkrieg

Question 11

What were the two sides of the war?

Answer 11

Allied-British, French, Canada,

Axis-Germany, Italy, Japan Soviet Union

Question 12

Name three places Hitler tookover in the beginning of the war.

Answer 12

France, Holland, Denmark, Poland

Question 13

What was the Miracle of Dunkirk?

Answer 13

300,000 + troops evacuated off the beaches of northern France and saved from the Nazis

Question 14

What laws placed severe restrictions on Jews living in Germany?

Answer 14

Nuremberg Laws

Question 15

What was Kristallnacht?

Answer 15

“Night of Broken glass”-attack on Jewish businesses, homes, synagogues in Nov 1938

Question 16

What was the Holocaust?

Answer 16

Genoicide of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs at the hands of the Nazis

Question 17

What was the Battle of Stalingrad?

Answer 17

Turning point-Stalin defended the Soviet Union against Hitler

Climate, size of Russia leads to Nazi defeat

Question 18

What was D-Day?

Answer 18

Invasion if France by Allied forces, forced Hitler to fight a two-front war. Turning point

Question 19

What tactic was the US using to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific?

Answer 19

Island-hopping

Question 20

How did the US defeat the Japanese in the Pacific?

Answer 20

Dropping of the atomic bombs

Question 21

What were the Nuremberg Trials? Tokyo trials?

Answer 21

Trials held to hold Nazi and Japanese military commanders responsible for crimes against humanity (genocide and Rape of Nanking)

Question 22

Which peacekeeping organization was created to replace the League of Nations?

Answer 22

United Nations