WWII final test

Question 1

__________(“living space”) saw Mussolini wanting Italy’s territorial extent to cover the Mediterranean as a whole and Northern Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean .

Answer 1

Spazio vitale

Question 2

Who wanted to create a self-sufficient bloc of Asian nations led by Japan, free from Western rule.

Answer 2

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Question 3

_________ (“living space”) was that Hitler believed Eastern Europe had to be taken to create a vast German empire for more physical space, a greater population, and territory to supply food/raw materials.

Answer 3

Lebensraum

Question 4

Who was the leader of Japan

Answer 4

Hirohito

Question 5

Who was the Japanese prime minister/general of the Imperial Japanese Army (until 1944).

Answer 5

Hedeki Tojo

Question 6

In 1931, where did Japan militarily occupy? (seen by some as the beginning of the war in Asia)

Answer 6

Manchuria

Question 7

Who invaded Japan in 1937

Answer 7

China

Question 8

The invasion of what nation confirmed that the League of Nations was powerless to stop foreign invasions, thus symbolically ending the League.

Answer 8

Ethiopia

Question 9

Germany annexed Austria; this was called ____________ (“connection” or “joining”).

Answer 9

Anschluss

Question 10

At the Munich Conference (September 1938)–British PM Chamberlain and French President Daladier allowed Hitler to take the ______________ as he promised not to take the rest of Czechoslovakia

Answer 10

Sudetenland

Question 11

What is the policy of trying to avoid war by accepting some demands of the aggressor.

Answer 11

Appeasement

Question 12

Germany and the Soviet Union entered what pact? [Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact].

Answer 12

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Question 13

This pact agreed that the Soviet Union and Germany would partition (split) Poland if Germany took it over.

Answer 13

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Question 14

What type of fighting did Germany use to take Poland?

Answer 14

blitzkrieg,

Question 15

The British officially recognize the Battle of Britain as being from July 10 until October 31, 1940, which overlaps the period of large-scale night attacks known as __________, that lasted from September 7, 1940, to May 11, 1941.

Answer 15

the Blitz

Question 16

In 1941, who did Hitler betray

Answer 16

Stalin

Question 17

In August 1941, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill agreed to the___________________ This meant that Great Britain and the United States agreed to defend democracy, free trade, and economic advancement.

Answer 17

the Atlantic charter.

Question 18

On December 7, 1941 where did Japan attack

Answer 18

Pear Harbor, Hawaii

Question 19

Who was known as the “Desert Fox” and led the German campaign in Northern Africa (1941-1943)

Answer 19

Erwin Rommel

Question 20

Who was the leader of the Schutzstaffel (SS—the agency of surveillance and terror/military branch of the Nazis).

Answer 20

Heinrich Himmler

Question 21

Who was the head of the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs

Answer 21

Adolf Eichman

Question 22

Where do the allies invade after the victory in Tunisia and securing Africa.

Answer 22

Italy

Question 23

On June 6, 1944, the Allied landing in northern France, is also known as what?

Answer 23

D-day

Question 24

B-17s– “_____________”

B-24s– ”_____________”

Answer 24

Flying Fortress

Liberator

Question 25

What battle was the final German offensive and caught the Allied forces completely off guard.

Answer 25

The Battle of the Bulge

Question 26

On May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered. Also known as what day?

Answer 26

V-E Day

Question 27

What Conference in February 1945 planned for Germany’s defeat; it ended up initiating the Cold War.

Answer 27

The Yalta Conference

Question 28

Who lead the United States in the Pacific against Hedeki Tojo and Japan.

Answer 28

Douglas MacArthur

Question 29

Where did the United States use an “active defense” plan (defined by the territories of Japan. At its peak, the empire stretched throughout eastern China, Southeast Asia, the islands of Oceania, and even the Aleutian islands in North America

Answer 29

Pacific Theater

Question 30

What Battle (5/4-5/8/1942) was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged with each other, as well as the first in which neither side’s ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.

Answer 30

Battle of the Coral Sea

Question 31

What Battle (6/3-6/7/1942) was an important battle as the United States defeated the Japanese imperial fleet. This was the first time that the Japanese imperial fleet had ever been defeated in battle. This battle would be the end of the “active defense” plan.

Answer 31

The Battle of Midway

Question 32

What Battle (8/7/1942-2/9/1943) was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.

Answer 32

The Battle of Guadalcanal

Question 33

What was the research and development program that produced the first nuclear weapons

Answer 33

The Manhattan Project

Question 34

Who took over after Roosevelt died in office on April 12, 1945,

Answer 34

Vice President Harry Truman

Question 35

On August 6, 1945, where was the first atomic bomb dropped that killed 70,000 to 135,000 people?

Answer 35

on Hiroshima

Question 36

On August 9, 1945, where was the second atomic bomb was dropped that killed 60,000 to 80,000 people?

Answer 36

on Nagasaki

Question 37

The day formal surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945 is commonly known as…?

Answer 37

V-J Day

Question 38

What plan was American-provided economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. (officially the Economic Recovery Act of 1948)

Answer 38

The Marshall Plan

Question 39

What was created to hopefully prevent another world war like the one they just ended?

Answer 39

The United Nations

Question 40

What was created in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome. It was designed to create a common market among its members through the elimination of most trade barriers and the establishment of a common external trade policy. In 2009, it formally ceased to exist and its institutions were directly absorbed by the European Union.

Answer 40

The European Economic Community (EEC)