WWII

Question 1

Axis Powers

Answer 1

Germany, Italy, and Japan, initiated WWII and fought against allies.

Question 2

Anschluss

Answer 2

When Nazi Germany annexed the neighboring country of Austria

Question 3

Neutrality Acts

Answer 3

tried to keep the United States out of war, by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations.

Question 4

Munich Pact

Answer 4

Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.

Question 5

Blitzkrieg

Answer 5

Germany’s strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of World War II in Europe. Germany’s strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns

Question 6

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 6

led the Free French forces in resisting surrender to Germany during World War II and became provisional president of France in the immediate aftermath of the war

Question 7

Beer Hall Putsch

Answer 7

violent failed attempt by Hitler and the Nazi Party to take over the Bavarian local government in 1923.

Question 8

Erwin Rommel

Answer 8

was a German army officer who rose to the rank of field marshal and earned fame at home and abroad for his leadership of Germany’s Afrika Korps in North Africa during World War II. “Desert Fox” nickname for surprise attacks

Question 9

Potsdam Conference

Answer 9

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and US pres. Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to discuss the terms for end of WWII

Question 10

Lebensraum

Answer 10

Room or territories that Germany would expand to

Question 11

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 11

system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States.

Question 12

D-Day

Answer 12

brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history.
(invasion of France)

Question 13

Hideki Tojo

Answer 13

Hideki Tojo was the Army general and prime minister who led Japan through much of World War II and was later executed as a war criminal

Question 14

Winston Churchill

Answer 14

British Prime Minister during some of WWII after Neville Chamberlain

Question 15

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 15

After Nazi invasion on Poland, led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940

Question 16

Battle of Midway

Answer 16

fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. Fought 6 months after pearl harbor attacks

Question 17

Island-Hopping

Answer 17

The strategy of capturing some islands and going around others. The United States used an island-hopping campaign on Japanese-held islands in order to invade Japan.

Question 18

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 18

A set of Antisemitic laws enacted in Nazi Germany in 1935 that stripped jews of their rights and citizenship

Question 19

Kristallnacht

Answer 19

November 9-10th when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name Kristallnacht refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms.

Question 20

Ghetto

Answer 20

Places where Jews were kept forcibly seperated and discriminated from eachother by Nazis.

Question 21

St.Louis

Answer 21

A ship, the St. Louis carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 intending to escape anti-Semitic persecution

Question 22

Reichstag Fire

Answer 22

On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising.

abolished number of constitutional protections paved the way for Nazis

Question 23

Benito Mussolini

Answer 23

Dictator of Italy that introduced Italian fascism (Gov. controls everything) and had Italy fight alongside Germany

Question 24

How did the Treaty of Versailles cause WWII?

Answer 24

imposing financial reparations and territorial losses on Germany, creating resentment among the population, and failing to establish lasting peace.