World War2: Europe

Question 1

What did the nazis think Germany needed

Answer 1

More living space for the people in germany

Question 2

The German nazi leaders decided to re-arm secretly in 1933

Question 3

When did Germany annex austria

Answer 3

1938

Question 4

Read through pg 119

Question 5

When did hitler invade Poland

Answer 5

1 september 1939

Question 6

When did britain and France declare war on Germany

Answer 6

3 September 1939

Question 7

Who were the allied powers

Answer 7

Britain
France
Russia
USA

Question 8

Who were the axis powers

Answer 8

Germany
Italy
Japan

Question 9

How many jews were exterminated

Answer 9

6 million

Question 10

Read through pg 121

Question 11

Who lead the ss

Answer 11

Heinrich himmler

Question 12

What were ss men taught

Answer 12

Racial hatred and told to harden their hearts to human suffering

Answer 13

Read through pg 122

Question 14

Who lead the white rose movement

Answer 14

Sophie scholl

Question 15

What was the white rose movement

Answer 15

A small, non-violeng resistance group consisting of students from the university of Munich. They spoke against nazism and printed pamphlets

Question 16

How did the whote rose movement happen

Answer 16

Sophie and her brother Hans took a suitcase full of leaflets to their university. They dropped copied in the empty hallways for students to pick up when they arrived for lectures.

Question 17

What happened to the white rose movement

Answer 17

They were caught and taken into gestapo custody. They were tried and executed by guillotine

Question 18

Who was the leader of the confessing church

Answer 18

Dietrich bonhoeffer

Question 19

Read through confessing church pg 124

Question 20

When did the nazi German army enter the city of Warsaw in Poland

Answer 20

1939

Question 21

What did they do in Warsaw

Answer 21

They built a wall to enclose a part of the city, which became known as the Warsaw ghetto

Question 22

What was it like for a jew in Warsaw

Answer 22

The gates were guarded, and any jew who left the ghetto without permission was shot

Question 23

What policy did the nazi’s pursue with

Answer 23

A slow and natural extinction

Question 24

What was the slow and natural extinction like in warsaw

Answer 24

The smell from broken roolets became unbearable. Te freezing cold polish winter caused the water pipes to freeze. There was not enough food. Diseases soon broke out in the overcrowded ghetto

Question 25

What was the Warsaw ghetto uprising

Answer 25

They smuggled in weapons and dug escape tunnels linked to the sewer pipes

Question 26

What happened to the Warsaw ghetto Uprising

Answer 26

In April 1934, the nazis attacked the ghetto and were met with gunfire and were forced to withdraw. They returned and set fire to the ghetto and threw poison gas into the sewers. The survivors were sent to death camps

Question 27

When did Italy surrender

Answer 27

27 April 1945

Question 28

What happened to benito mussolini

Answer 28

He tried to flee from Italy when Italy was on the verge of defeat. He was captured by Italian resisters. He was killed and his body was hung for public display in a square in the city of Milan

Question 29

How did hitler die

Answer 29

He committed suicide, with Eva Braun

Question 30

Who was Eva Braun

Answer 30

Hitler’s long term Mistress whom he married just before their joint suicide

Question 31

When did the German army surrender

Answer 31

2 may 1945

Question 32

How many people died in extermination camps

Answer 32

11 million
6 million jews
Other 5 were Roma, slave, homosexuals, jehovah’s witnesses and black people, people with disabilities and political opponents