WWII

Question 1

Treaty of Versailles led to rise of Hitler
League of Nations was weak, could not stop Germany, Italy, Japan

Answer 1

Causes of WWII

Question 2

Allies invade Nazi occupied France

Answer 2

D-Day (Deployment Day)

Question 3

Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict

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Appeasement

Question 4

1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany’s territory any further.

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Munich Conference

Question 5

The Italian founder of the Fascist party who came to power in Italy in 1922 and allied himself with Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers during the Second World War.

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Benito Mussolini (Il Duce)

Question 6

A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition

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Fascism

Question 7

In 1931, Japanese army officers blew up tracks on a Japanese owned Railroad line and claimed the Chinese did it. In “self-defense” they attacked Chinese forces without their government’s consent

Answer 7

Manchurian Incident

Question 8

The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Rape of Nanjing (Nanking)

Question 9

Mass effort of British citizens to evacuate soldiers from the shores of France.

Answer 9

Dunkirk Evacuation

Question 10

Style of warfare utilized by Hitler and the Nazi army to quickly overwhelm the defenses of other European countries.

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Blitzkrieg (lightning war)

Question 11

series of air strikes on Britain by Germany from August to November of 1940 in an attempt to gain air supremacy. Royal Air force prevents German invasion of Great Britain

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Battle of Britain (1940)

Question 12

allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S

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Lend-Lease Act

Question 13

Hitler-Stalin Nonaggression Pact; 10-year peace treaty; Russia can keep 1/3 of Poland when Hitler attacks it

Answer 13

Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939)

Question 14

Base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which entered America to enter the war.

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Pearl Harbor

Question 15

Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union but due to the harsh climate and cold weather they were forced to retreat.

Answer 15

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 16

A pivotal naval battle fought near the island of Midway on June 3-6, 1942. The victory halted Japanese advances in the Pacific.

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Battle of Midway (1942)

Question 17

This was one of the islands that was used by Japan to get as close as they could to the United States. From March to June of 1945 was the American invasion of a group of Pacific islands that brought
American forces closer than ever to Japan, but both invasions cost thousands of American lives and even more Japanese lives, as Japanese soldiers fought fiercely over every square inch the islands and Japanese soldiers and civilians committed
suicide rather than surrender. The last two heavily defended Japanese islands conquered by the U.S. in 1945

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Okinawa and Iwo Jima

Question 18

A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific Japanese-held islands and bypassing others

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Island Hopping

Question 19

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

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Genocide

Question 20

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to eliminate Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

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Holocaust

Question 21

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

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Concentration Camps

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Nazi`s were held on trial accused of crimes against humanity. 12 were hanged, 7 got life, 3 were acquitted

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Nuremberg trials (1945-1946)

Question 23

Two Japanese cities that US decided to drop atomic bombs upon. Over 200,000 were killed instantly and others died years later of cancer. It Resulted in the surrender of Japan and an end of World War II.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945

Question 24

1939 - Germany invades Poland!!!!

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Immediate Cause of WWII in Europe

Question 25

Pearl Harbor- Surprise attack by Japan on the U.S., brought the United States into the war

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Immediate Cause of USA entering WWII

Question 26

Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed , led to Japanese Surrender

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Atomic Bombing August 1945