WW2

Question 1

major cause of WW2

Answer 1

treaty of versailles, world wide great depression

Question 2

allegiances

Answer 2

axis powers and allied powers

Question 3

FDR

Answer 3

¨day of infamy¨

Question 4

Churchill

Answer 4

¨never surrender¨

Question 5

Neutrality Act -

Answer 5

the provide written documentation of US intent to stay out or foreign

Question 6

Kristallnact

Answer 6

Assassination in France that led to rioting against Jews throughout occupied Europe

Question 7

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 7

series of laws by Nazis to strip Jews of right (wearing star of David)

Question 8

reasons for Pearl Harbor

Answer 8

A) destroy US pacific fleet / B) weaken US war resolve

Question 9

ID

Answer 9

A) Marshall - Chief of staff: all decisions went through him / B) Eisenhower - Lead in Africa: Supreme Court in Europe / C) Patton - Italy : Precipitation in D-Day / D) MacArthur Supreme Commander military: Pacific / E) Nimitz - Supreme Commander Naval/Pacific

Question 10

Battles

Answer 10

A) D-Day, June 6th, 1944 - Invasion of Normandy - opening of 2nd front in France / B) Battle of Bulge - months long battle - Hitlers last ditch attempt at breaking Allied Advance

Question 11

Manhattan Project

Answer 11

(code name) Project for the development of Atomic Bomb

Question 12

Oppenheimer

Answer 12

Lead scientist on Manhattan Project

Question 13

Einstien

Answer 13

Splitting atomic power behind bomb

Question 14

Operational Names

Answer 14

Operation Overlord - D-Day invasion of N. Africa Normandy, June 6, 1944

Question 15

Operation Torch

Answer 15

Invasion

Question 16

US position at start of WW2

Answer 16

neutral at the start of WW2

Question 17

WW2 Important Dates

Answer 17

Dec 7th 1941 - Pearl Harbor
June 6th 1944 - D-Day - invasion of Normandy
Sept 3rd, 1939 - official start of WW2 (invasion of Poland)
May 8th, 1945 - Victory in Europe Day
Aug 14, 1945 - Victory in Japan
Aug 6, 1945 - Hiroshami
Aug 9, 1945 - Nagasaki

Question 18

Appeasement

Answer 18

P.M Chamberlian, policy of giving into Hitler’s Demand

Question 19

1933

Answer 19

Recognition of USSR

Question 20

Final Solution

Answer 20

developed by Eichman used to exterminate Jews of Europe

Question 21

Extermination Camps

Answer 21

Located in Poland Sobibar, Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Majanek, Auschwitz - Birkenau

Question 22

Results of Pearl Harbor

Answer 22

declaration of war on Axis Powers

Question 23

ID

Answer 23

a) Casablanca - unconditional surrender / b) Yalta - Division of Germany, elections in Europe / c) Potsdam - Surrenders trials post war japan

Question 24

San Francisco

Answer 24

Setup of UN

Question 25

Battles in the Pacific

Answer 25

A) Okinawa - increasing bloody battles in pacific B) Iwo Jima - famous flag raising on Mount SuriBachi (after pearl harbor)

Question 26

Victory´s

Answer 26

A) victory in europe day - may 8th, 1945 - germany / b) victory in japan day - aug 14, 1945 - japan / c) hiroshima - 1st atomic bomb (enola gay) - aug 6, 1945 / d) nagasaki - 2nd - bockscar - aug 9, 1945

Question 27

trial names

Answer 27

a) nuremberg trials - trials of top nazis / b) tokoyo war crime trials - trial of top japanese

Question 28

allied powers

Answer 28

US (FDR and Harry Truman), GB (Chamberlain and Churchill), USSR (Stalin)

Question 29

smaller allied leaders

Answer 29

Free France (General Charles De Gaulle), Austria (Schuschnigg), Czech (Hacha)

Question 30

axis powers

Answer 30

germany (hitler), italy (mussolini), japan (Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minuster Hideki Tojo)

Question 31

smaller axis nations

Answer 31

Spain (Francisco Franco), French (Henri Petain (Nazi/Vichy)

Question 32

totalitarianism

Answer 32

def. a political theory where the people are subordinate to state or central government

Question 33

fascism

Answer 33

def. a political theory where the people are subordinate to state or central government ; controlled by a dictator (italy and spain)

Question 34

nazism

Answer 34

def. policy of race/religion hatred

Question 35

communism

Answer 35

def. policy of FORCED equality

Question 36

militarism - (ex. ussr)

Answer 36

def. sometimes a dictator emphasis on Armed Forces (japan)

Question 37

what did japan invade?

Answer 37

Manchuria

Question 38

what did italy invade

Answer 38

Ethiopia

Question 39

Jeanette Rankin

Answer 39

only one to vote against declaration

Question 40

Internment Groups

Answer 40

Issei

Question 41

direct immigrants from japan

Answer 41

nisei

Question 42

General George Marshal

Answer 42

Get Germany First

Question 43

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 43

General George Marshal wanted to bring woman in the fold, woman were then segregated in Army Units

Question 44

War Board

Answer 44

Office of War Mobilization and Office of Price Administration

Question 45

North Africa

Answer 45

Invasion Operation Torch, Afrika Korps: Led by Rommel German Desert Soldiers