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Causes of WWII Cross
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the ideological belief that Germany needed to conquer "living space" in Eastern Europe for its superior race? | Lebensraum |
| What was the name of the Soviet secret police responsible for carrying out arrests, executions, and mass deportations under the dictator's orders? | NKVD |
| What was the name of the organization used to indoctrinate German children with Nazi ideology and prepare boys for military service? | Hitler Youth |
| What was an American economic program in the 1920s designed to help Germany pay its war reparations and stabilize its economy? | Dawes Plan |
| What was the resource-rich region of China invaded by Japan in 1931, marking the first major step toward war in the Pacific? | Manchuria |
| Who was the dictator of Germany? | Adolph Hitler |
| What was the policy of seizing private farms and combining them into large, state-run agricultural units? | Collectivization |
| Who was the brutal dictator of the Soviet Union who turned the country into an industrial power through fear and total government control? | Joseph Stalin |
| What was the policy that made the US the "arsenal of democracy.? | Cash and Carry |
| Who was the Italian leader known as "Il Duce" who founded the Fascist Party and allied with Germany? | Benito Mussolini |
| Who was the military general and prime minister of Japan who was the primary architect of the country's war efforts? | Hidecki Tojo |
| What is the high-ranking government position the German leader was appointed to in 1932 before seizing total control? | Chancellor |
| What was the 1939 "secret" Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union promising not to attack each other and to retake Poland together? | Non-Aggression Pact |
| What was the German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia that was handed over to Germany during the policy of appeasement? | Sudetenland |
| What was the initial agreement that linked Germany, Italy, and Japan as allies? | Tripatite Pact |
| On what was based the Nazi ideology? | racial superiority |
| What was an international Pact in which signatory nations promised not to use war to solve problems and to only go to war if personally attacked? | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| What was a government ban on trade, specifically the U.S. restriction on oil and steel that pressured Japan before the war? | embargo |
| What was the political party in the Soviet Union that sought to eliminate private property and put the state in charge of all industry? | Communist Party |
| What was the 1938 meeting where Britain and France allowed Germany to take part of Czechoslovakia to keep the peace? | Munich Conference |
| What was the man-made starvation in the early 1930s that killed millions of people in the Soviet Union’s breadbasket? | Holodomor |
| What did Mussolini promise his people? | The Return of the Roman Empire |
| What was the location of the surprise Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy that brought the United States into the war? | Pearl Harbor |
| What was the widespread and extreme shortage of food, often used as a political weapon to crush resistance in the Soviet Union? | Famine |
| What was the German parliament building that was destroyed by fire in 1933, an event used to justify the removal of civil liberties? | Reichstag |
| What was the name of the weak and unstable democratic government in Germany that existed between the end of WWI and the rise of the Nazis? | Weimar Republic |
| What was the name of the secret state police in Germany that used terror and spying to eliminate any opposition to the government? | Gestapo |
| What was the name of the Minister of Propaganda who controlled the media and used films and rallies to spread hate and glorify the German leader? | Goebbels |
| What was the name of the local neighborhood officials in Germany who spied on citizens to ensure they were loyal to the party and following all rules? | Block Wardens |
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