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history 23
history test quizzing for chapter 23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WWII years | 1920-1945 |
| League of Nations | supposed to ensure international justice |
| U.S. refused to join ___ league? | League of Nations |
| U.S. emerged from WWI as the ______ | most powerful nation in the world |
| Mussolini comes to power in Italy | 1922 |
| Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight | 1927 |
| Hitler comes to power in Germany | 1933 |
| U.S. recognizes Communist government in Russia | 1933 |
| Mussolini invades Ethiopia | 1935 |
| Great Depression | 1930-40 |
| Hitler takes Austria | 1936 |
| World War II | 1939-45 |
| Germany surrenders | 1945 |
| Atomic bombs dropped on Japan | 1945 |
| Allies capture Rome | 1944 |
| D-Day invasion | 1944 |
| Allies secure North Africa | 1943 |
| Paris falls | 1940 |
| Battle of Great Britain | 1940 |
| Nazi troops invade Russia | 1941 |
| Japan attacks Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| Germany and Russia invade Poland | 1939 |
| Mussolini | 1883-1945 |
| Fascism | form of socialism |
| Socialism | allows people to keep their private property but takes away their freedoms |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of the Nazis |
| National Socialist German Workers Party | Nazis |
| Nazism is a form of _____ | socialism |
| Nietzsche | 1844-1900 German thinker |
| Danish philosopher | Kierkegaard 1813-1855 |
| Freud | thinker or 1856- 1939 |
| WHO formulated the system known as psychoanalysis? | Freud |
| J. Gresham Machen | the great Princeton scholar |
| Billy Sunday, Gypsy Smith, G. Campbell Morgan, Harry Rimmer | all preachers, bible teachers or the 18 and 19th century |
| ______ became the leading industrial nation and the financial center of the world | America |
| Roaring Twenties | the industrial age |
| FDR | Franklin D. Roosevelt president of the United States during WWII |
| The New Deal | introduced the U.S. to socialism |
| Third Reich | Hitler's "new empire" |
| Unemployed men in Germany became _____ ________ | storm troopers |
| Young people became _______ _____ | Hitler youth |
| HOW many died by the Nazis? | millions and millions of Jews and Europeans |
| The motto for Germany was, | today Germany, tomorrow the world |
| Mussolini and Hitler joined forces by organizing, | Rome-Berlin Axis |
| Neville Chamberlin | a leading voice in Europe |
| Munich | the Nazi head quarters |
| Joseph Stalin | the Communist dictator of Russia |
| Nazi-Soviet pact | non- agression pact between Stalin and Hitler |
| Royal Air Force | held off the Germans long enough for hundreds of small BRITISH craft of all kinds to ferry 300,000 troops across the Channel to safety |
| Fall of Paris | June 14, 1940 |
| Free French government | under the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle` |
| Battle of Britain | the Nazis bombed the city of london mercilessly |
| Romania Hungary and Bulgaria captured by ______ in the winters of 1941-42 | Nazis |
| Nazi troops invaded ______ on June 22, 1941 | Russia |
| Stalins forces, who were used to the cold, got the upper hand and forced the _____ to abandon the invasion of Moscow | Nazis |
| Japan signed the __________ ______ with Germany and Italy joining the Axis Powers | Tripartite Treaty |
| Chiang Kai-sheck | Nationalist Chinese leader |
| Moral embargo | cutting off all oil exports to the nation of America |
| General Erwin Rommel | African general |
| Churchill suggested a third front | a strike at Germany through Italy |
| Italians removed _________ from power | Mussolini |
| America's General Dwight D, Eisenhower | chosen to lead the invasion against Hitler |
| General George S. Patton and General Omar Bradley | American officers pushed Germany back |
| Battle of the Bulge | last great offensive in the West |
| V-E day | Adolf Hitler killed himself, his wife, and his dog with poison in an underground bunker |
| War in the Pacific | 1941-1945 |
| Bataan Death March | lead by the Japanese, and more than 10,000 Americans died |
| Battle of Coral Sea | May 1942 |
| Battle of Midway | June 1942 |
| Midway ended Japan's domination of the Pacific and ____ ___ ____ __ ____ | turned the tide of war |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | Japan lost almost all of its remaining ships and planes |
| Hiroshima | USA dropped the first perfected atomic bomb on Japan August 1945 |
| Nagasaki | USA dropped the second atomic bomb here 3days after Hiroshima |
| V-J DAY | victory in Japan day |
| World wide in WWII over 60 _______ died | million |
| concentration camps | gas chambers, buried people alive, medical experiments, and burned people after they died. |
| Treblinka, Dachau, and Auschwitz | three largest concentration camps EVER |
| 1934-1945 | Holocaust |
| Gen. Erwin Rommel | leader in North Africa war 1891-1944 |
| Charles de Gaulle | Leader of the Free French Government |
| Gen. Douglas MacArthur | General who left his troops right before the Japanese came to take all his troops and lead them in the Bataan Death March |
| Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower | Chosen to lead the invasion of Europe |
| Gen. George S. Patton | Leader in the American army that held Germany back |
| Winston Churchill | prime minister of Great Britain who realized that they had to make a stand against GERMANY |
| Auschwitz | major concentration camp in WWII |
| Holocaust | Nazi rule and concentration camps were being used to kill anyone (especially Jews) who rejected Hitler |
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