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WWIIExam
World War II Exam Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did Adolf Hitler dislike the Jews? | Because they did not have a homeland |
| What is the German word for fascism? | Nazism |
| The terms of what treaty were part of the reason for Germany’s economic trouble prior to World War II? | the Treaty of Versailles |
| Who was the fascist leader that promised to rescue Italy by reviving its economy and rebuild its armed forces? | Benito Mussolini |
| Other than in the United States during the global depression, war debts from World War I caused great suffering in what country? | Germany |
| What is the name given to the severe economic downturn that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929 | the Great Depression |
| What was the result of the Battle of Stalingrad? | the remaining German army that was frostbitten and hungry surrendered |
| Great Britain and France entered World War II because of the invasion of what country? | Poland |
| Hitler’s annexation of the nation known as Germany was the result of a policy known as what? | Appeasement |
| The Munich conference was a meeting in 1938 of world powers that allowed Hitler to take an area of Czechoslovakia known as what? | Sudetenland |
| Which country eventually violated the nonaggression pact? | Germany |
| The ten year agreement that Hitler and Stalin signed stating neither would attack the other was known as what? | the nonaggression pact |
| What was the name of the book written by Hitler that outlined his plans for Germany? | Mein Kampf |
| Who was the one German leader that came to power in the years leading up to World War II? | Adolf Hitler |
| What were the two fronts that WWII was fought in? | Pacific and European |
| A six-month battle in which American and Australian troops defeated Japanese defenders on what island? | Guadalcanal |
| What was the name given to the Japanese fighter pilots who would perform suicide by crashing airplanes into US battleships? | Kamikaze |
| What is the phrase used to by FDR to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor when declaring war following the attack on Pearl Harbor? | “A day which will live in infamy.” |
| On what day did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? | December 7, 1941 |
| The largest land and sea invasion in history happened during World War II of the beaches of Normandy known as what? | D-day |
| What is the name of the tactic used in Germany in the Battle of Britain, in which they attacked quickly with planes and bombs, followed by land invasions? | Blitzkrieg |
| What was the name given to the prisons that Jews were sent to as part of Hitler’s Final Solution to exterminate the Jewish population? | concentration camps |
| The segregated areas in certain cities into which Jewish people were herded as part of the first solution were known as what? | ghettos |
| The “Night of Broken Glass”, when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany destroying their homes, business and synagogues is known as what? | Kristallnacht |
| The 1935 laws that deprived Jews of their rights to German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews were known as what? | the Nuremberg Laws |
| The Nazi extermination of the Jews during World War II is known as what? | the Holocaust |
| What is the systematic killing of an entire people is known as? | genocide |
| Who became president after the death of US President FDR | Harry S. Truman |
| In what four day battle in the Philippines did an Allied force led by General Douglas MacArthur eliminate Japan as a naval threat | El Alamein |
| As part of their surrender terms, Japan had to decrease its military. What is this process called? | Demilitarization |
| What was the name given for the rebuilding of Japan following WWII that resulted in a new constitution, 2-house parliament, and prime minister? | Democratization |
| Who won World War II? | the Allied Powers |
| What was quickly followed by the surrender of the Japanese? | The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| In the movie Swing Kids, when the Swing Kids liked American music, what country were they also showing favoritism to? | The United States |
| In Germany, teenagers were required to join a youth group known as what as a process of indoctrination? | Hitler Jugend |
| What was the name given of the trials in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity | the Nuremberg Trials |
| Following WWII, How many zones was Germany was divided into that were controlled by the Allied Powers? | 4 |
| Effectively bringing one front of the war to a close, what nation was first to surrender? | Germany |
| What was the date for the Victory over Japan day? | September 2, 1945 |
| What was the date for the Victory in Europe day? | May 8, 1945 |
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