WWII - Part 1

Question 1

Government that has complete control over its citizen and puts down all opposition

Answer 1

Totalitarian

Question 2

Political system based on a strong, centralized government headed by a dictator

Answer 2

Fascism

Question 3

Nazi dictator of Germany

Answer 3

Hitler

Question 4

Fascist political philosophy of Germany under Nazi dictator Hitler

Answer 4

Nazism

Question 5

Laws passed by Congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations to war

Answer 5

Neutrality Acts

Question 6

Trying to pacify and aggressor in order to keep the peace

Answer 6

appeasement

Question 7

Agreement between Germany and Russia not to fight each other

Answer 7

nonaggression pact

Question 8

Systematic murder of 11 million Jews and other people in Europe by the Nazis

Answer 8

Holocaust

Question 9

Name given the night of November 9, 1938, when nazis in Germany attacked Jews, their businesses and their synagogues

Answer 9

Kristallnacht

Question 10

Deliberate and systematic killing of an entire people

Answer 10

Genocide

Question 11

a segregated neighborhood

Answer 11

ghetto

Question 12

Prison camps operated by the Nazis where Jews and others were starved while doing slave labor or murdered

Answer 12

Concentration camp

Question 13

How did the United States react to the rise of expansionist dictatorships in Europe and Asia?

Answer 13

by the policy of isolationism and with the Neutrality Act.

Question 14

How did the world react to Germany’s persecution of the Jews?

Answer 14

Nations didn’t want to accept Jewish refugees. The US didn’t change its immigration quotas and Americans feared competition for the few jobs available.

Question 15

Who were the targets of the final solution?

Answer 15

Jews and political opponents who were Communists, Socialists, and liberals.

Question 16

Why were certain people separated from the others and led to the gas chambers?

Answer 16

They were to old or weak to work

Question 17

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Answer 17

Axis Powers

Question 18

Law that allowed lending or leasing arms to any nation “whose defense was vital to the United States”

Answer 18

Led-Lease Act

Question 19

Group of nations, including the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, who opposed the Axis powers

Answer 19

Allies

Question 20

How did the United States slowly move toward war?

Answer 20

by the cash-carry act and the peacetime draft.

Question 21

What events moved the United States closer to war?

Answer 21

• The sinking of US ships by German U boats,
• The battle of the Atlantic,
• The Atlantic charter

Question 22

What event caused the American declaration of war against Japan?

Answer 22

The bombing of Pearl Harbor caused the American declaration of war against Japan

Question 23

________ is the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire people.
a. Appeasement
b. Fascism
c. Genocide

Answer 23

c. Genocide

Question 24

A __________ is a “lightning war” of quick, crushing surprise attacks.
a. Holocaust
b. Blitzkrieg
c. Axis Powers

Answer 24

b. Blitzkrieg

Question 25

When Germany, Italy, and Japan formed an alliance, they became known as the ___________.
a. Allies
b. Holocaust
c. Axis Power

Answer 25

c. Axis Power

Question 26

In the ___________, the nazis systematically murdered over 11 million Jews and others.
a. Blitzkrieg
b. Holocaust
c. appeasement

Answer 26

b. Holocaust

Question 27

______ is a form of very nationalistic totalitarian government with a strong dictator.
a. facism
b. genocide
c. blitzkrieg

Answer 27

a. fascism

Question 28

The ______ included Britain, France, the United States, and others fighting the axis.
a. Lend-Lease act
b. Allies
c. Holocaust

Answer 28

b. Allies

Question 29

The policy of _____ appeasement at Munich allowed Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia
a. Led-Lease act
b. Appeasement
c. blitzkrieg

Answer 29

b. Appeasement

Question 30

The racist, nationalistic, expansionist philosophy of Hitler’s Germany was called
a. Appeasement
b. Nazism
c. Genocide

Answer 30

b. Nazism