ww2 begins

Question 1

what group of three was known as the axis powers?

Answer 1

japan, italy, and germany

Question 2

fascism

Answer 2

an aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual

Question 3

what title did mussolini take as the leader of italy?

Answer 3

title of IL duece

Question 4

who took power after lenin died in 1924?

Answer 4

stalin

Question 5

what does ussr stand for?

Answer 5

union of soviet socialist republics

Question 6

while hitler was in prison what book did he write?

Answer 6

mein kampf

Question 7

aryans

Answer 7

germans, who were particularly blond, blue-eyed belonged to a “master race”

Question 8

the lower house of the german parliment

Answer 8

reichstag

Question 9

hitler gave himself the new title of what

Answer 9

der fuhrer or “the leader”

Question 10

The invasion of Nanking became known as the

Answer 10

“Raping of Nanking”

Question 11

giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid all-out conflict.

Answer 11

Appeasement

Question 12

Slovakia became independent in name, but it was under whose control

Answer 12

germany

Question 13

Hitler demanded the city of ______ to be returned to German control a month after the Munich Conference.

Answer 13

Danzig

Question 14

blitzkrieg

Answer 14

“lightening war”

Question 15

Luftwaffe

Answer 15

battled the British Royal Air Force in what became known as the Battle of Britain

Question 16

The act made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war.

Answer 16

NEUTRALITY ACT of 1935.

Question 17

FDR listed the four freedoms that the us and britian and stood for

Answer 17

Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear

Question 18

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 18

which allowed the US to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the US”

Question 19

hitler became the leader of what

Answer 19

He became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party or Nazi Party

Question 20

On January 20, 1942, Nazi leaders met at the ______ to coordinate the “final solution of the Jewish question.”

Answer 20

the Wannsee Conference

Question 21

numeremberg laws

Answer 21

took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans

Question 22

concentration camp

Answer 22

was a camp where persons are detained or confined

Question 23

Extermination camps

Answer 23

where men, women, and children were sent to be executed

Question 24

holocaust

Answer 24

was the mass extermination of millions of European Jews

Question 25

The Hebrew term for Holocaust is ___ meaning “catastrophe”

Answer 25

shoah

Question 26

___ and ___ both declared war on the US

Answer 26

germany and italy

Question 27

The Senate voted 82 to 0 and the House voted 388 to 1 to declare war on Japan

Answer 27

did u know this??

Question 28

Japan depended on the US for many key materials

Answer 28

scrap iron, steel, and especially oil

Question 29

who developed the atlantic charter

Answer 29

roosevelt and churchhill

Question 30

what hemisphere was declared neautral

Answer 30

western

Question 31

why did japan declare war

Answer 31

fdr went against the neutrality act

Question 32

who did fdr allow us to sell weapons too

Answer 32

china

Question 33

internationalism

Answer 33

is a national policy of actively trading with foreign countries to foster peace and prosperity.

Question 34

Neutrality Act of 1937

Answer 34

continuing the ban on selling arms to warring nations and requiring them to buy all nonmilitary supplies from the US on a “cash-and-carry” basis.