World War II

Question 1

What are Aryans?

Answer 1

Germanic peoples, known as the “master race”

Question 2

What was the “Night of Broken Glass”?

Answer 2

Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were attacked

Question 3

Who were the axis powers?

Answer 3

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 4

What were the areas called that the Jews were separated into?

Answer 4

Ghettos

Question 5

What was a “day that will live in infamy” that caused America to join WWII?

Answer 5

Japan bombing Pearl Harbor

Question 6

Why did the battle of Guadalcanal begin?

Answer 6

Japan was building an air base and the Allied Powers tried to stop them

Question 7

What was Island hopping?

Answer 7

Strategy used by the allies to jump from island to island to get across the pacific and into Japan

Question 8

What was the Blitzkrieg- “lightning war”- strategy? (used by the Germans)

Answer 8

Fast moving airplanes and tanks used to surprise and quickly overwhelm Poland

Question 9

Who was Winston Churchill?

Answer 9

British Prime minister

Question 10

Who were the Allied powers?

Answer 10

Britain, America, and Soviet Union

Question 11

What General of Germany helped push back British resistance across the desert and won Tobruk? Also known as the “Desert Fox”

Answer 11

Rommel

Question 12

What was Mussolini’s party’s name?

Answer 12

Fascists

Question 13

What did the Fascists believe in?

Answer 13

Obedience to the state

Question 14

What was Hitler’s “final solution” to treat the Jews

Answer 14

Genocide

Question 15

What was a famous concentration camp that killed about a million 1/2 Jews

Answer 15

Auschwitz

Question 16

Why didn’t emigration work out for most of the Jews?

Answer 16

other countries limited Jewish refugees

Question 17

What happened at Dunkirk with the Germans and Allies?

Answer 17

Allies were cornered on a beach and Britain rescued the stranded Allies by ferrying them across the English Channel

Question 18

What two leaders attacked Poland?

Answer 18

Hitler and Stalin

Question 19

What was another name for Hitler?

Answer 19

Der Fuhrer

Question 20

The southern part of ____ was Hitler’s “puppet state”

Answer 20

France

Question 21

_____ were used in the Battle of Midway by both Japan and America

Answer 21

aircraft carriers

Question 22

____, Poland was a main Ghetto in 1940

Answer 22

Warshaw

Question 23

What were the Nuremberg Trials?

Answer 23

Trails against Nazi leaders

Question 24

Who was Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 24

American General

Question 25

What did propaganda campaigns do?

Answer 25

Helped with total war, putting everything to the war effort