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WWII & Holocaust
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the Treaty of Versailles destroy Germany's economy? | Germany had to make reparations (pay for damages) to the Allies. (Remember BRAT) |
| Hitler invaded __; Mussolini invaded ___. | Poland; Ethiopia |
| What happened at the Munich Conference in 1938? | Great Britain & France gave Hitler what he wanted (they APPEASED him), in an effort to avoid war. |
| Prior to the Holocaust, there were laws and events that targeted Jews in Germany. Name two. | Nuremberg Laws & Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) |
| What happened at the "Rape of Nanjing" in 1937? | Japan invaded this Chinese city and tortured and killed thousands, especially women. |
| What was "blitzkrieg"? | German for "lightning war," these were sudden attacks by German planes and tanks that devastated the enemy. |
| The event that sparked WWI was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. What event sparked WWII? | Hitler's invasion of Poland |
| Name three events that proved the League of Nations was powerless to make world leaders behave. | Hitler violated the ToV; Japan invaded Manchuria; Italy invaded Ethiopia; and the League basically did nothing beyond "Shame on You!" |
| Why did Japan attack the U.S. at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941? | U.S. was mad at Japan for the Rape of Nanjing, so they put an embargo on iron, steel, and oil exports to Japan. Japan didn't like that. |
| Besides being generally all-around bad guys, what did Hitler & Mussolini have in common? Hint: type of govt. | They were Fascists. In fact, Mussolini "invented" fascism, and Hitler copied the idea. |
| What name did the Nazis give to their plan to commit mass murder of the Jews? | The "Final Solution" (Note: a lot of students answer this question with "Holocaust," but the Nazis never used that term. It was used in the years after the war to describe the event). |
| What was considered the "turning point" of the European Theatre? Hint: Allied troops landed on the beaches of France's Normandy region, and drove the Nazis back into Germany. | D-Day -- June 6, 1944 |
| What happened at the Battle of El-Alamein (in Northern Africa) in 1942? | It was an important Allied victory and considered a turning point in the war in North Africa. |
| What was a key component to Nazism, in terms of which race was "superior"? | Aryans (fair skin, blue eyes, etc.) were superior to all other races. |
| What event resulted in the immediate death of 70,000 people, followed by 60,000 more within a few months and 70,000 more five years later? | Dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan |
| Why did the Nazis rise to power in post-WWI Germany? Give two reasons. | The economy was a disaster AND the government was unstable. |
| What happened to the German army at the Battle of Stalingrad, Russia, in 1942? | Terrible defeat for Germany, and the Russians started pushing the Nazis back toward Germany. |
| What were three plans the Nazis had for dealing with Jews? | 1. Expulsion (kicking them out of Germany) 2. Containment (putting them all in one place) 3. Final Solution (killing them all) |
| WWI was mainly fought in ____, while WWII was fought in ___. | Europe; Europe, Africa, and the Pacific |
| What was "island-hopping"? | Allied plan to march across the Pacific to Japan, taking one island at a time |
| This battle was the turning point in the Pacific; it was the first time the Allies were on the offensive. | Battle of Midway |
| The "Big Three" Allied Leaders met at three conferences during and after the war. Put them in order. | Tehran Conference - Nov. 1943; Yalta Conference - Feb. 1945; Potsdam Conference - July 1945 (Remember TYPe) |
| One result of THIS event in Courtroom #10 was that political and military leaders CAN be held accountable for actions in wartime. | Nuremberg Trials |
| After the war, the U.S. sent General Douglas MacArthur to supervise the rebuilding of Japan. What were the 3 key parts of his plan for Japan? | Disarmament (Japan's new constitution banned the country from having a strong military); Liberalization (the people enjoyed a lot of freedoms they didn't have before); Democratization (people had more say in the govt.) |
| At this Big Three Conference , the Allies discussed their plan to open a second front against Germany (i.e., Stalin would need to attack Germany from Russia). | Tehran Conference |
| What was the result of Operation Overlord (aka D-Day), June 6, 1944? | After landing on the beaches in France's Normandy region, the Allies pushed the Nazis out of France, which they had taken over in June 1940. |
| This was the code name for the top-secret project to develop the atomic bomb. | Manhattan Project |
| The bombing of THIS Japanese city brought about Japan's surrender and (finally!) the end of WWII. | Nagasaki |
| At this Big Three Conference, the Allies decided that AS SOON AS Germany was defeated, Germany and Berlin would be split into four zones; Stalin would join the U.S. in fighting Japan. | Yalta (Remember: TYPe -- Tehran, Yalta, Postdam) Also - Y has a split, and this plan discussed splitting up Germany. |
| After WWII, this organization replaced the League of Nations and had more "teeth" to enforce cooperation and peace among nations. | United Nations |
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