WWII

Question 1

What were the two main causes of WWII

Answer 1

1. Mistreatment of Germany in the Versailles treaty

2. The Great Depression leads to the rise of dictators in Europe

Question 2

The Great Depression began with what event?

Answer 2

The stock market crash

Question 3

Name three extreme forms of government that arose in Europe before or after the Great Depression

Answer 3

1. Communism - Russia/Soviet Union
2. Nazism - Germany
3. Militarism - japan

Question 4

What was the main factor that allowed these forms of government to come to power

Answer 4

Dictators promised to get countries out of the depression and bring prosperity

Question 5

What two promises did hitler give to the German people if they elected him

Answer 5

1. To bring prosperity to Germany

2. Revenge for the Versailles treaty

Question 6

Name three beliefs these governments shared in common

Answer 6

1. Demanded fanatic loyalty to their leaders
2. Racism- superiority over all other races
3. Totalitarian states where government controls everything

Question 7

List six or more groups that the Nazis considered to be undesirables

Answer 7

1. Polish
2. Handicapped
3. Homosexuals
4. Gypsies
5. Jews
6. Blacks
7. Jehovah witnesses

Question 8

What was the League of Nations response to the aggressive actions of Japan, Italy, and Germany?

Answer 8

Nothing, they feared another war

Question 9

What event was used by hitler as a dress rehearsal for World War Two

Answer 9

Spanish civil war

Question 10

Why did Great Britain and France appease or give in to hitlers demands at the Munich pact

Answer 10

They wanted to avoid war

Question 11

Why were German Jews refused asylum into countries in the 1930s?

Answer 11

Because other countries were more focused on their citizens and trying to recover from the Great Depression

Question 12

What is the name of the brainwashed group of German young people who were fanatically loyal to Hitler

Answer 12

Hitler youth (HJ)

Question 13

What country did hitler consider a mongrel race

Answer 13

America

Question 14

What country other than Germany was one that hitler respected? Why did he respect their country?

Answer 14

Japan, because they were mutuals

Question 15

Name the four major Allied powers of WWII

Answer 15

Soviet Union, France, USA, Great Britain

Question 16

Name the three major axis powers of WWII

Answer 16

Italy, Japan, Germany

Question 17

What was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union

Answer 17

Operation Barbarossa

Question 18

What was the code name for D-Day, the battle of Normandy

Answer 18

Operation overlord

Question 19

Define Anti-Semitism

Answer 19

Hatred of Jews

Question 20

What were Jewish people forced to wear to segregate them

Answer 20

The Star of David

Question 21

Nazis political/racial ideology in Adolf hitlers book called

Answer 21

Mein Kampf

Question 22

The ___________ was a demilitarized buffer zone between Germany and France that was occupied by hitler in 1936

Answer 22

Rhineland

Question 23

What was the importance of the Battle of Britain

Answer 23

It boosted American morale and made them more determined to fight

Question 24

The _________ airmen were the first black service men to serve as military pilots in WWII

Answer 24

Tuskegee

Question 25

What were the three major results of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Answer 25

1. US entered the war
2. unites USA - wants revenge
3. Internment camps

Question 26

What reason did the US give for putting Japanese Americans in internment camps? What was the real reason.

Answer 26

1. reason - national security

2. Real reason - fear and prejudice

Question 27

What four things did hitler do in his final solution to rid Europe of the Jewish nation

Answer 27

1. Immigration
2. Mobile deaths quads
3. Ghettos
4. Concentration/death camps

Question 28

What event did 16,000 Americans and Filipino soldiers died on their way to a POW camp

Answer 28

The Bataan death march

Question 29

Name and give a brief description of the three different types of concentration camps

Answer 29

1. POW camps: (stalags) - help prisoners of war mostly in Germany. Most prisoners survived
2. Work camps: used slave labor to help the German war effort! - factories, mines, etc, many worked to death! Mostly in Germany
   • Dachau was the most infamous one
3. Death camps: used to exterminate people! All six were located in Poland! Auschwitz was the most infamous! (1.1 million died)

Question 30

Why did the USA decide to use the atomic bomb rather than invading the country?

Answer 30

It would spare lives

Question 31

List the results of WWII

Answer 31

1. The Cold War
2. Israel becomes a homeland for Jews
3. Nuclear age
4. 60 million people died
5. Great Britain lost its empire