Ww2

Question 1

kellogg braid

Answer 1

The Kellogg–Briand Pact is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.”

Question 2

Ethiopia

Answer 2

Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is a rugged, landlocked country split by the Great Rift Valley. With archaeological finds dating back more than 3 million years, it’s a place of ancient culture. Among its important sites are Lalibela with its rock-cut Christian churches from the 12th–13th centuries.

Question 3

appeasement

Answer 3

the action or process of appeasing.

Question 4

axis powers

Answer 4

The Axis powers, also known as the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied Powers. The Axis agreed on their opposition to the Allies, but did not completely coordinate their activity.

Question 5

allied powers

Answer 5

Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June 1941), the United States (after its entry on December 8, 1941), and China.

Question 6

munich conference

Answer 6

The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it.

Question 7

anti comintern

Answer 7

The Anti-Comintern Pact was an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan (later to be joined by other, mainly fascist, governments) on November 25, 1936 and was directed against the Third (Communist) International.

Question 8

German Soviet non aggression pact

Answer 8

nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded only a few days before the beginning of World War II and which divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.

Question 9

sanctioned

Answer 9

a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

Question 10

demilitarize

Answer 10

remove all military forces from (an area).

Question 11

winston churchhill

Answer 11

a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

Question 12

charles de gualle

Answer 12

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman. He was the leader of Free France and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Question 13

pearl Harbor

Answer 13

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Question 14

sudetenland

Answer 14

The Sudetenland is the German name to refer to those northern, southern, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by ethnic German speakers, specifically the border districts

Question 15

siege of leningrad

Answer 15

a prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army Group North against Leningrad, historically and currently known as Saint Petersburg

Question 16

battle of stalingrad

Answer 16

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.

Question 17

phoney war

Answer 17

The Phoney War was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front.

Question 18

isolationist

Answer 18

a person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Question 19

battle of Britain

Answer 19

The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940.

Question 20

lend lease act

Answer 20

Military aid to Britain was greatly facilitated by the Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, in which Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to ‘any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.’

Question 21

ve day

Answer 21

Victory in Europe Day, marked the end of World War II in Europe .

Question 22

d day

Answer 22

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

Question 23

new order

Answer 23

the political order which Nazi Germany wanted to impose on the conquered areas under its dominion.

Question 24

final solution

Answer 24

Final Solution,” the plan to annihilate the Jews of Europe.

Question 25

auschwitz

Answer 25

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Question 26

fdr

Answer 26

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Question 27

douglas MacArthur

Answer 27

Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

Question 28

warsaw uprising

Answer 28

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany’s final effort

Question 29

midway highlands

Answer 29

can’t find something so there’s that

Question 30

genocide

Answer 30

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Question 31

Poland

Answer 31

Poland is an eastern European country on the Baltic Sea known for its medieval architecture and Jewish heritage. Warsaw, the capital, has shopping and nightlife, plus the Warsaw Uprising Museum, honoring the city’s WWII-era resistance to German occupation.

Question 32

united nations

Answer 32

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order.

Question 33

kamikaze

Answer 33

(in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

Question 34

mobilization

Answer 34

the action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active service.

Question 35

island hopping

Answer 35

Leapfrogging, also known as island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.

Question 36

atomic bomb

Answer 36

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion (thermonuclear weapon).

Question 37

Hiroshima

Answer 37

The United States, at the order of President Harry S. Truman, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War II.

Question 38

Nagasaki

Answer 38

Nagasaki is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu. It’s set on a large natural harbor, with buildings on the terraces of surrounding hills. It is synonymous with a key moment during World War II, after suffering an Allied nuclear attack in August 1945.

Question 39

Bretton woods conference

Answer 39

The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after

Question 40

truman doctrine

Answer 40

Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

Question 41

vj day

Answer 41

Victory over Japan Day is the day on which the Empire of Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war.

Question 42

concatenation camps

Answer 42

a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

Question 43

nanjing

Answer 43

Nanjing, capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province, is roughly 300km up the Yangtze River from the city of Shanghai.

Question 44

Atlantic charter

Answer 44

The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland.

Question 45

operation warlord

Answer 45

Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings.

Question 46

Nuremberg trails

Answer 46

The Nuremberg trials (German: die Nürnberger Prozesse) were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany

Question 47

quit india movement

Answer 47

was a civil disobedience movement launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee or more simply by Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end

Question 48

Bataan March

Answer 48

was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saisaih Point,

Question 49

king’s African rifles

Answer 49

The King’s African Rifles was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from Britain’s various possessions in British East Africa in the present-day African Great Lakes region from 1902 until independence in the 1960s.

Question 50

Normandy

Answer 50

The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy

Question 51

invasion

Answer 51

an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force.

Question 52

aggression

Answer 52

hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront.

Question 53

Haile Selassie

Answer 53

Haile Selassie I; 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975, born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974

Question 54

mutilation

Answer 54

the action of mutilating or being mutilated.

Question 55

mein kampf

Answer 55

Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work outlines Hitler’s political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926.

Question 56

mein kampf

Answer 56

Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work outlines Hitler’s political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926.