World War II Test

Question 1

What were the two main causes of World War II?

Answer 1

1.Mistreatment of Germany under the Versatile Treaty
2. Great Depression leading to the rise of dictators in Europe

Question 2

The Great Depression began with what event?

Answer 2

Stock Market Crash

Question 3

Name 3 Extreme forms of government that arose in Europe before or after the Great Depression:

Answer 3

1. Communism
2. Nazism
3. Militarism

Question 4

What was the main factor that allowed these governments to come to power?

Answer 4

People were poor, desperate, and hungry.

Question 5

What 2 promises did Adolf Hitler give to the German people if they elected him?

Answer 5

1. To get the German people out the Great Depression
2. Revenge for German Mistreatment in Versatile Treaty

Question 6

List the 6 groups that the Nazis considered to be “undesirables”, and needed to be cleansed from Germany:

Answer 6

1. Gypsies 2. Jehovah Witness 3. Homosexuals
2. Negroes 5. Handicapped 6. Russians

Question 7

Name 3 beliefs these extreme governments shared in common:

Answer 7

• Demanded fantic loyalty to the leaders
  -Totalitarian states where the police
  -Racism: Superiority of their race

Question 8

What was the League of Nations response to the aggressive actions of Japan, Italy, and Germany?

Answer 8

They didn’t Do anything.

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Spanish Civil War

Question 10

Why did Great Britian and France “appease: or give in to Hiter’s demands at the Minich Pact?

Answer 10

They didn’t want another war.

Question 11

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

Answer 11

People didn’t want them to take their jobs and rise population

Question 12

Brainwashed group of German young people who were fanatically loyal to Adolf Hitler?

Answer 12

Hitler Youth (HJ)

Question 13

What country other than Germany was the only one that Hitler respected& why did they respect?

Answer 13

Great Britian - because of its mighty empire

Question 14

Name the Four Allied Powers in WWII?

Answer 14

Great Britian, USA, France, Soviet Union

Question 15

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

Answer 15

United States- The American Race

Question 16

Name the three major Axis Powers in WWII?

Answer 16

Germany, Japan, Italy, and USA

Question 17

Hatred of the Jews

Answer 17

Anti- semitism

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Star of David

Question 19

Nazis’ political was summarized in Adolf Hitlers book:
(My Struggle)

Answer 19

Mein Kompf

Question 20

A demilitarized “buffer zone” between Germany and France that was occupied by Hitlers in 1936?

Answer 20

The Rhineland

Question 21

What was the importance of the Battle of Britian?

Answer 21

To stop Hitler from winning the whole war.

Question 22

What were the first black serviceman to serve as military pilots in World War II?

Answer 22

The Tusgee

Question 23

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

Answer 23

• USA enters WWII
• USA united
  -Internment camps

Question 24

What reason did the US government give for putting Japanese- Americans into internment camps? What was the real reason?

Answer 24

• National security & Fear and Prejudice

Question 25

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

Answer 25

-Ghettos, Immigration, Mobile Death squads. and Death Camps

Question 26

During what event did the 16,000 American and Filipinos soldiers died on their way to a POW camp?

Answer 26

Bataan Death March

Question 27

Name and give a brief description of the three different types of German concentration camps used in WWII?

Answer 27

1 POW Camps- used to exterminate people.
2. Work Camps- used slave labor to help the German war effort
3. Death Camps- used to exterminate people

Question 28

Why did the US decide to use the atomic bomb in Japan rather than to invade the country?

Answer 28

It wouldn’t hurt so many people they could just target an area, it would have a low death rate.

Question 29

List the results of WWII:

Answer 29

• 65 million people died
  -Europe is ruined
  -Cold War
  -Creation of Israel
  -Great Britian (1st Empire)
  -Nuclear Age

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Operation Barbado

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Deliverance Day