WW2 Vocab Quiz

Question 0

Allied Powers

Answer 0

US, Soviet Union, GB, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,

Question 1

Axis Powers

Answer 1

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 2

The Mukden Incident

Answer 2

September 1931, Japanese troops blew up several feet of railroad tracks in South Manchuria, then blamed the Chinese for it. This set the stage for the Chinese-Japanese war.

Question 3

Rape of Nanjing

Answer 3

Demonstrated the horror the citizens of Nanjing, China faced. Japanese forces used methods of warfare that lead to mass death and suffering on an unimaginable level. Ariel bombing, people died by the 10,000s. Japanese had a sense of war passion and racial superiority. 7,000 women raped.

Question 4

Tripartite Pact

Answer 4

CHECK THIS 10 year military and economic act signed between Axis powers.

Question 5

Hitler

Answer 5

Voted legally to office, to rule Germany, then became a totalitarian dictator. Extremely anti Semitic, charismatic, incredible public speaker.

Question 6

Anschluss

Answer 6

“Union”, specifically between Germany and Austria, stemming from the annexation of Hitler in 1938.

Question 7

Appeasement

Answer 7

Giving into a request or demand in order to avoid confrontation. One of the main causes of WW2.
Happened in Munich Conference of September 1938, Allied powers let Hitler keep what he had conquered thus far, warning to not expand any farther.

Question 8

November Crime

Answer 8

Hitler blamed the 1918 signing of the armistice on Germany’s internal enemies: Jews, communists, liberals.

Question 9

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 9

British conservative politician, prime minister of the UK from May 1937 to May 1940. Disliked appeasement, didn’t want immediate war either. Wanted to SAY they would defend Czechoslovakia. Didn’t want any friendship between Nazi’s and GB government.

Question 10

Munich Conference

Answer 10

Italy, GB, France, and Germany met to establish: “peace for our time”. Site of Hitler’s appeasement (no more expansion).

Question 11

German-Russian Treaty of Nonaggression

Answer 11

Treaty signed by Hitler and the USSR, pact to agree that neither would invade the other. Hitler goes against this treaty and invades Russia.

Question 12

Blitzkrieg

Answer 12

Lightening war, achieved by Germans in 1939 during the invasion of Poland.

Question 13

U-boats

Answer 13

German warfare boats, one of the first occurrences of sea warfare in the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 14

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 14

Code name for the June invasion of the Soviet Union. “You only have to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.”- Hitler

Question 15

Battle of Britain

Answer 15

War Germans launched against Britain, hoping that it would be Blitz warfare, won only by air attacks.
Air Force = Luftwaffle

Question 16

Winston Churchill

Answer 16

British prime minister, lead Britain to victory.

Question 17

The final solution

Answer 17

Hitler moved all of June Jews into ghettos right before the concentration camps so the SS could easily bring them to the concentration camps. “Solved the problem of the Jews”.

Question 18

The Vichy government

Answer 18

Government in France that collaborated with the Nazi/German rule.

Question 19

Pearl Harbor

Answer 19

Japanese attack on this harbor on December 7th, 1941. December 11th, Hitler declares war on the US. Official US entrance into the war as a result of this attack.

Question 20

Greater East Asia Co- Prosperity Sphere

Answer 20

Constructed under the motto “Asia for Asians”, mostly advocated Japan’s expansion in Asia and the Pacific while labeling it as an Asian expansion. Japanese hated the Chinese.

Question 21

D-day

Answer 21

June 6th, 1944. Official invasion of Normandy, France. Allies won this battle against Germans, but lost 9,000.

Question 22

Kamikaze

Answer 22

Japanese pilots who volunteered to fly planes with just enough fuel to reach and Allied ship, and then dive-bomb into it. Suicide mission, Japanese flew 1,900 of these, killing more than 5,000 US soldiers.

Question 23

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Answer 23

Sites where US used atomic bomb to destroy them. Either instant vaporization, or slow radiation would kill 200,000+ people.