WW2 Simply DK

Question 1

Hitler German term for living space

Answer 1

Lebensraum

Question 2

Vice President 1925-29 under calvin Coolidge named namesake plan reorganising German reparation payments and helped stabilise the German financial system. Won 1925 noble prize peace.

Answer 2

Charles Dawes (Plan)

Question 3

He is known for the plan to settle Germany’s World War I reparations in 1929, known as the namesake Plan and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America.

Answer 3

Owen D Young

Question 4

Named after US Secretary of State and French foreign minister, pact signed in 1928 with Germany renouncing aggressive war.

Answer 4

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 5

historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by namesake Germans.

Answer 5

Sudetenland

Question 6

1907 Triple Entente formed and made up of which three countries?

Answer 6

Britain, France and Russia

Question 7

Which French general said “this is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years”?

Answer 7

Ferdinand Foch

Question 8

Peace of Westphalia ended thirty years war in 1648 and was two main treaties. Which of the two treaties was signed in Lower Saxony city?

Answer 8

Osnabruck

Question 9

Peace of Westphalia ended thirty years war in 1648 and was two main treaties. Which of the two treaties was signed in North Rhine-Westphalia city?

Answer 9

Munster

Question 10

Meaning rim city or edge city a roughly crescent- or arc-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands, that houses almost half the country’s population

Answer 10

Randstad

Question 11

the Flemish reference to a network of four metropolitan areas in Belgium, three of which are in the central provinces of Flanders, together with the Brussels Capital Region.

Answer 11

Flemish Diamond (four corners of an abstract diamond shape: Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp and Leuven)

Question 12

Fruity name for a discontinuous corridor of urbanization in Western and Central Europe, with a population of around 100 million

Answer 12

Blue Banana

Question 13

Blue Banana sometimes called the ____-______ axis. What two cities are missing?

Answer 13

Liverpool-Milan

Question 14

Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924, he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Italian fascists committed fraud in the 1924 Italian general election, and denounced the violence they used to gain votes. Eleven days later, he was kidnapped and killed by Fascists.

Answer 14

Giocomo Matteotti

Question 15

German nationalist and political activist who is best known for his involvement in the 1920 namesake Putsch. Exiled to Sweden after.

Answer 15

Wolfgang Kapp

Question 16

Who were irregular German and other European military volunteer units, or paramilitary, that existed from the 18th to the early 20th centuries? During German revolution consisting largely of World War I veterans were raised as paramilitary militias.

Answer 16

Freikorps

Question 17

an agreement signed on 16 April 1922 between the German Republic and Soviet Russia under which both renounced all territorial and financial claims against each other and opened friendly diplomatic relations. The treaty was negotiated by Russian Foreign Minister Georgi Chicherin and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau. Named after municaplity of Genoa.

Answer 17

Treaty of Rapallo

Question 18

SA in Nazi lore stands for what?

Answer 18

Sturmabteilung

Question 19

SS in Nazi lore stands for what?

Answer 19

Schutzstaffel

Question 20

As leader of the German National People’s Party, he played a part in helping Adolf Hitler become chancellor of Germany and served in his first cabinet in 1933, hoping to control Hitler and use him as his tool. The plan failed, and by the end of 1933 he had been pushed to the sidelines.

Answer 20

Alfred Hugenberg

Question 21

German general and the penultimate chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic before Adolf Hitler arrived. A rival for power with Adolf Hitler, he was murdered by Hitler’s SS during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.

Answer 21

Kurt von Schleicher

Question 22

Dutch communist blamed for the Reichstag fire in 1933.

Answer 22

Marinus van der Lubbe

Question 23

Head of brownshirts/SA Sturmabteiling, who was killed by Hitler on 30 June 1934 on the Night of the Long Knives as well as ex-Chancellor Schleicher.

Answer 23

Ernst Rohm

Question 24

Prussian award “Pour le Merite” had which colourful nickname?

Answer 24

Blue Max

Question 25

Chief of the Luftwaffe High Command 1935-1945. One of his first acts as a cabinet minister was to oversee the creation of the Gestapo, which he ceded to Heinrich Himmler in 1934.
He couldn’t do the Stalingrad and telegram to Hitler asking to take over when heard of his planned suicide.

Answer 25

Hermann Goring

Question 26

Having joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925, he was appointed Reichsführer-SS by Adolf Hitler in 1929. Over the next sixteen years, he developed the SS from a 290-man battalion into a million-strong paramilitary group.

Answer 26

Heinrich Himmler

Question 27

high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler described him as “the man with the iron heart”. He was mortally wounded in Prague on 27 May 1942 as a result of Operation Anthropoid. He was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill him;

Answer 27

Reinhard Heydrich

Question 28

In reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942, all 173 men from the village who were over 15 years of age were executed on 10 June 1942. It was the complete destruction of which village in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia?

Answer 28

Lidice

Question 29

Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d’etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country’s Prime Minister from 1967 to 1973. He also was the President of Greece under the junta in 1973, following a referendum.

Answer 29

Georgios Papadopoulos

Question 30

Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Bourbon Restoration. In December 1925, after the Alhucemas landing ended Rifian anti-colonial resistance, he installed a civil directory.

Answer 30

Miguel Primo de Rivera

Question 31

Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he became an increasingly dominant figure in Polish politics and exerted significant influence on shaping the country’s foreign policy. He is viewed as a father of the Second Polish Republic, which was re-established in 1918.

Answer 31

Josef Piłsudski

Question 32

a Polish mathematician, freemason, scholar, diplomat and politician who served as 15th, 17th and 19th Prime Minister of Poland three times between 1926 and 1930 and the Senator of Poland from 1937 until the outbreak of World War II.

Answer 32

Kazimierz Bartel

Question 33

Lithuanian intellectual, journalist and the first President of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1926 to 1940, before its occupation by the Soviet Union. In the second of these periods, he ruled as a dictator.

Answer 33

Antanas Smetona

Question 34

King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 16 August 1921 to 3 October 1929 and King of Yugoslavia from 3 October 1929 until his assassination in 1934. His reign of 13 years is the longest of the three monarchs of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Succeeded by Peter II.

Answer 34

Alexander I of Yugoslavia (Karađorđević)

Question 35

Greek military officer and politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941. He governed constitutionally for the first four months of his tenure, and thereafter as the strongman leader of the 4th of August Regime following his appointment by King George II.

Answer 35

Ioannis Metaxas

Question 36

Austrian former jurist who served as president of the Constitutional Court before serving as chancellor of Austria from June 2019 until January 2020. An Independent, she was the first woman to hold either office.

Answer 36

Brigitte Bierlein

Question 37

Romanian politician of the far right, the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard or The Legion of the Archangel Michael (also known as the Legionary Movement), an ultranationalist and violently antisemitic organization active throughout most of the interwar period.

Answer 37

Corneliu Codreanu

Question 38

Interior ministry of Soviet Union, known for political repression and for carrying out the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. It was led by Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria. Established in 1917.

Answer 38

NKVD

Question 39

From the Russian for “fist”, term which was used to describe peasants who owned over 8 acres (3.2 hectares) of land towards the end of the Russian Empire.

Answer 39

Kulak

Question 40

Name of Spain’s fascist party used to unify fascism under Francisco Franco?

Answer 40

Falange

Question 41

Chinese general and statesman who served as the second provisional president of the Republic of China and head of the Beiyang government from 1912 to 1916. desire for dictatorial power brought him into conflict with the National Assembly and the Kuomintang (KMT), provoking a second revolution which was decisively crushed. In December 1915, in an attempt to further secure his rule, he restored the monarchy and proclaimed himself as the Hongxian Emperor.

Answer 41

Yuan Shikai

Question 42

Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China from September 1954 until his death in January 1976. He served under Chairman Mao Zedong and aided the Communist Party in rising to power, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the Chinese economy.

Answer 42

Zhou Enlai

Question 43

Japanese politician, minister of war from July 1940, from October 1941 the Prime minister of Japan, July 1944 dismissed from office.

Answer 43

Tojo Hideki

Question 44

an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany.

Answer 44

Kurt Schuschnigg

Question 45

German name of the Klaipėda Region defined by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles in 1920 and refers to the northernmost part of the German province of East Prussia, today controlled by Lithuania as part of Klaipėda and Tauragė counties.

Answer 45

Memel Territory

Question 46

What is the popular name for the building which contains the headquarters of the Border Guard Service, (an agency of the FSB) and its affiliated prison, on namesake Square in the Meshchansky District of Moscow, Russia? Suffered Night of the Murdered Poets in 1952 with 13 jewish writers.

Answer 46

Lubyanka

Question 47

Shooting of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by 17 year old Polish Jewish student Herschel Grynszpan in Paris on 7 November was the precursor of what night in 9-10 November 1938?

Answer 47

Kristallnacht

Question 48

signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on the one hand and by the Republic of German-Austria on the other

Answer 48

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Question 49

Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his second stint, he led the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during World War II.

Answer 49

Edvard Benes

Question 50

English actor and writer. He began his acting career in the BBC TV adaptation of I, Claudius (1976), but is best known for portraying Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Answer 50

Kevin McNally

Question 51

In April and early May 1940 after German invasion of Poland, 4000 Polish POWs were taken to namesake forest near Smolensk and shot in back of head. Chief executioner was Vasily Blokhin of the NKVD. Name of this massacre?

Answer 51

Katyn Massacre

Question 52

16 February 1940 British destroyer which entered Norwegian waters and released 299 British prisoners on German ship Altmark?

Answer 52

Hms cossack

Question 53

Navy of Nazi germany 1935-45

Answer 53

Kriegsmarine

Question 54

German for armoured vehicle or tank

Answer 54

Panzer

Question 55

On 22nd June 1940 which newly installed French prime minister signed armistice with gemransv

Answer 55

Phillipe Petain

Question 56

French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier, born 1745 in Guadeloupe, known as black Mozart.

Answer 56

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Question 57

British philosopher,[7] principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase “ghost in the machine.”

Answer 57

Gilbert Ryle

Question 58

Three British Naval ships that engaged with Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee captained by Captain Hans Langdorff at the Battle of the River Plate (December 1939)

Answer 58

Ajax, Achilles and Exeter

Question 59

25-day engagement in the 1940 Norwegian campaign which saw a small force of Norwegian volunteers fighting numerically superior German forces from a fortified position. After initial fighting around the Meråker Line railway line, the Norwegians pulled back into namesake place and held off further German attacks before surrendering on 5 May as one of the last Norwegian units active in southern Norway.

Answer 59

Battle of Hegra Fortress

Question 60

King of Norway from 1905-1957 and need evacuating from Norway during Nazi invasion and his son Olav

Answer 60

Haakon VII

Question 61

The namesake WW2 incident occurred in the late hours of 16 February 1940 when the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cossack entered Norwegian territorial waters, intercepting and boarding the German namesake auxiliary ship in the Jøssingfjord carrying 300 allied POWs

Answer 61

Altmark Incident

Question 62

2022 Norwegian film named after the namesake battles from 9 April to 8 June 1940 - port important to steel imports/exports

Answer 62

Narvik

Question 63

a German field marshal and strategist who served as chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1891 to 1906 - name given to a 1905-06 plan about how to attack France - “A man is born, and not made, a strategist.”

Answer 63

Alfred von Schlieffen

Question 64

a Prussian field marshal, The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field and one of the finest military minds of his generation. Same name as nephew. Won of earliest recorded even though nickname the silent one.

Answer 64

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Question 65

Upon becoming the head of the General Staff, he led the German Army from 1 January 1906 to 14 September 1914 during the opening months of World War I. His legacy remains a matter of controversy, due to his involvement in Germany’s decision to go to war and in the execution of the invasion of France and Belgium that culminated in the First Battle of the Marne.

Answer 65

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger

Question 66

a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the “moral” (in modern terms meaning psychological) and political aspects of waging war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege (“On War”), though unfinished at his death, is considered a seminal treatise on military strategy and science.

Answer 66

Carl von Clausewitz

Question 67

a Swiss military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. his theories were thought to have affected many officers who later served in the American Civil War. He may have coined the term logistics in his Summary of the Art of War (1838).

Answer 67

Antoine-Henri Jomini

Question 68

two peace treaties signed by French Emperor Napoleon in the namesake town in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland, at the end of the War of the Fourth Coalition. The first was signed on 7 July, between Napoleon and Russian Emperor Alexander I, when they met on a raft in the middle of the Neman river. The second was signed with Prussia on 9 July.

Answer 68

Treaties of Tilsit

Question 69

On 17 June 1940 which French prime minister resigned in favour of Philippe Petain

Answer 69

Paul Reynaud

Question 70

French military commander in World War I and World War II, as well as a high ranking member of the Vichy regime. Following a series of military setbacks, he advised armistice and France subsequently capitulated. He joined Philippe Pétain’s Vichy regime as Minister for Defence and served until September 1940, when he was appointed Delegate-General in French North Africa.

Answer 70

Maxime Weygand

Question 71

political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy regime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II. The formal head was Prime Minister Pierre Laval, although its chief of operations and de facto leader was Secretary General Joseph Darnand.

Answer 71

Milice

Question 72

March-May 1954: climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the French Union’s colonial Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries

Answer 72

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Question 73

The first black person to be buried at the Pantheon in Paris. a French colonial administrator and Free French leader. He was the first black French man appointed to a high post in the French colonies, when appointed as Governor of Guadeloupe in 1936. Governor of Chad throughout WW2. Son-in-law was Leopold Sedar Senghor (first Senegal President).

Answer 73

Felix Eboue

Question 74

He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain’s defence, and hence, the defeat of Operation Sea Lion, Adolf Hitler’s plan to invade Britain. Had namesake system first wide-area ground controlled interception network.

Answer 74

Hugh Dowding

Question 75

In November 1940, Hugh Dowding was replaced in command against his wishes by which senior commander in RAF, another Big Wing advocate (using massed fighters to defend the United Kingdom against enemy bombers)?

Answer 75

Sholto Douglas

Question 76

Dubbed the “flying pencil” for its narrow fuselage, German bomber that suffered heavy losses in Battle of Britain

Answer 76

Dornier Do 17

Question 77

Two word act signed by US Congress in 1941 a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, Republic of China, and other Allied nations of the Second World War with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945. The aid was given free of charge on the basis that such help was essential for the defense of the United States.

Answer 77

Lend-Lease

Question 78

In 1941, who flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom’s exit from
World War II?

Answer 78

Rudolf Hess