ww2

Question 1

3 countries ruled by fascist dictators by the end of the 1930s

Answer 1

Spain
Italy
Germany

Question 2

The earliest incident leading up to WWII in Asia was Japan invading __________ in 1931

Answer 2

Manchuria

Question 3

2 world leaders signed a nonaggression pact one week before the invasion of Poland that started WWI

Answer 3

Hitler and Stalin

Question 4

3 following factors that kept countries from challenging the expanding Axis empires

Answer 4

A global depression
Memories of WWI
The belief in isolationism

Question 5

What happened at the Munich Conference of 1938?

Answer 5

The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler

Question 6

Did Hitler keep his promise at Munich Conference?

Answer 6

no

Question 7

3 major Axis Powers in WWII

Answer 7

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 8

Maginot Line

Answer 8

array of defenses that France built along its border with Germany in the 1930s, designed to prevent an invasion

Question 9

Why did Maginot Line fail?

Answer 9

because it was not mobile and it assumed that the Ardennes (rough terrain) was impenetrable

Question 10

D-Day

Answer 10

Allies invaded Normandy (Germany)

Question 11

German war strategy used in WWII to overwhelm the enemy

Answer 11

Blitzkrieg “Lightning War”- a surprise attack to overwhelm opponents rapidly

Question 12

major turning point in the war against Japan in the Pacific

Answer 12

Battle of Midway, Allied victory

Question 13

How many Jews were put to death as a result of Hitler’s Final Solution?

Answer 13

6 mil

Question 14

Hitler’s last major offensive in Europe? Was it successful?

Answer 14

The Battle of the Bulge. It was not successful, the allies won

Question 15

3 blunders of Adolf Hitler during WWII

Answer 15

Declaring war on the USA
Invasion of Russia
Putting so many resources into the extermination of the Jews

Question 16

Which country saw the largest number of Jews killed in the Holocaust?

Answer 16

Poland

Question 17

At which location did Operation Overlord meet the most resistance by the Germans? (Code name for the beach?)

Answer 17

Omaha Beach, where there were over 2,000 American casualties

Question 18

Japanese cities that were sites of atomic explosions

Answer 18

Hiroshima
Nagasaki

Question 19

What country saw the most casualties during WWII?

Answer 19

Soviet Union

Question 20

What organization was created after WWII (1945) to prevent another war from starting?

Answer 20

United Nations

Question 21

What battle cost the USSR over one million soldiers/ put the Germans on the defensive on the Russian front

Answer 21

Stalingrad

Question 22

Hitler announces that he will no longer follow the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 22

1: march 1935

Question 23

Hitler is allowed to take the Rhineland

Answer 23

2: march 1936

Question 24

The Anschluss is allowed to occur (the uniting of Austria with Germany)

Answer 24

3: march 1938

Question 25

Hitler is allowed to take the Sudetenland

Answer 25

4: september 1938

Question 26

Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia

Answer 26

5: march 1939