WW2

Question 1

Who was Joseph Goebbels?

Answer 1

leader of propoganda

Question 2

Who was Heimlich Himmler?

Answer 2

highest official tried at numemberg

Question 3

What did the Treaty of Versailles try to insure?

Answer 3

collective security and peace

Question 4

What two nations were not part of the league of nations?

Answer 4

US and Russia

Question 5

What occured at the Washington Naval Conference?

Answer 5

a policy on the ratio of battleships per country

Question 6

What did the Kellogg Braind Pact do?

Answer 6

prohibit war

Question 7

How did the War start in the Pacific?

Answer 7

Japan invaded Manchuria

Question 8

Did China join the League of Nations?

Answer 8

yes

Question 9

What two nations pulled out in response in the League of Nations?

Answer 9

Germany and Japan

Question 10

What did the 1933 London Economic Conference do?

Answer 10

relieve the great depression

Question 11

What was the purpose of the Stresa front?

Answer 11

use force to maintain peace in Europe.

Question 12

Who allies with Germany in the Spanish Civil War?

Answer 12

Italy

Question 13

What 4 things did Francisco Franco want?

Answer 13

facism, no socialism, no communism, power over the church

Question 14

How did the Spanish Civil War become a dress rehersal?

Answer 14

Italy tested their ground troops, and Germany tested the Luftwaffe

Question 15

What happens to the Rhineland in 1936?

Answer 15

Germany occupies it and remilitarizes it

Question 16

Who was not invited to the Munich Conference and what happened?

Answer 16

Czechoslovakia and Russia, but Hitler promises no more territorial demands.

Question 17

What did the Nonaggression Pact with Russia end up doing?

Answer 17

splitting Poland

Question 18

How many weeks did France keep up the fight until they were defeated?

Answer 18

6 weeks

Question 19

What is the formation of the Grand Alliance?

Answer 19

when Russia joins the allies

Question 20

Hitler’s primary motivation for the invasion of the Soviet Union was?

Answer 20

to destroy Bolshevism and acquire lebensraum for German colonization.

Question 21

A social historian would be most likely interested in researching which of the following topics related to World War II?:

Answer 21

women’s participation in the labor force during the war

Question 22

The important decision made by leading German officials at the Wannsee Conference was?:

Answer 22

to begin implementation of the “Final Solution” to the Jewish Question.

Question 23

The chief argument between Truman and Stalin at Potsdam in July, 1945, was over?:

Answer 23

free elections in eastern Europe.

Question 24

Nazi occupation in Western Europe differed from that in the east in that?:

Answer 24

Nazi occupation was more extremely brutal in the east, because of Nazi racial ideology.

Question 25

Winston Churchill’s vision for the postwar world?:

Answer 25

stressed the balance of power to check the Soviets, and resisted ending colonial empires.

Question 26

Most Lend-Lease aid was sent to?:

Answer 26

the Soviet Union and Great Britain.

Question 27

Operation Barbarossa refers to

Answer 27

The German invasion of Russia in 1941

Question 28

In the Soviet Union, World War II was known as

Answer 28

The Great Patriotic War

Question 29

Hitler’s primary motivation for the invasion of the Soviet Union was?

Answer 29

to destroy Bolshevism and acquire lebensraum for German colonization.

Question 30

A social historian would be most likely interested in researching which of the following topics related to World War II?:

Answer 30

women’s participation in the labor force during the war

Question 31

The important decision made by leading German officials at the Wannsee Conference was?:

Answer 31

to begin implementation of the “Final Solution” to the Jewish Question.

Question 32

The chief argument between Truman and Stalin at Potsdam in July, 1945, was over?:

Answer 32

free elections in eastern Europe.

Question 33

Nazi occupation in Western Europe differed from that in the east in that?:

Answer 33

Nazi occupation was more extremely brutal in the east, because of Nazi racial ideology.

Question 34

Winston Churchill’s vision for the postwar world?:

Answer 34

stressed the balance of power to check the Soviets, and resisted ending colonial empires.

Question 35

Most Lend-Lease aid was sent to?:

Answer 35

the Soviet Union and Great Britain.

Question 36

Operation Barbarossa refers to

Answer 36

The German invasion of Russia in 1941

Question 37

In the Soviet Union, World War II was known as

Answer 37

The Great Patriotic War

Question 38

Germany and Italy were brought together in the Rome-Berlin Axis Pact, and Japan joined the Axis powers in the Anti-Comintern Pact through their participation in the

Answer 38

Spanish Civil War

Question 39

The first good news for the Allied nations in the Pacific came after which of the following battles?

Answer 39

Coral Sea

Question 40

The main reason the Germans wanted Stalingrad was

Answer 40

Because of the oil fields nearby

Question 41

Who got to Berlin First?

Answer 41

Soviet Union

Question 42

Which event was the first to highlight the inadequacy of the League of Nations?

Answer 42

Japan’s invasion of Manchuria

Question 43

Which agreement immediately preceded the German invasion of Poland?

Answer 43

The Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact

Question 44

The first meeting of the leaders of the “Big Three” was held in

Answer 44

Iran

Question 45

At Yalta, Roosevelt

Answer 45

Wanted the Russians to join in the war against Japan