Government
This type of government has a strong central power, the state has replaced all private property, and the citizens don't earn any profit from work since economic production is communally controlled.
What is communism?
This strategy was used by the US to fight Japan, it involved attacking islands in the pacific to get closer to Japan
What is Island Hopping?
The leader of Italy during WWII, and the form of government he hated.
Who is Benito Mussolini, and what is Socialism?
During WWII, the Germans attempted to wipe out an entire group of people. This is called a...
What is a Genocide?
True or False
Germany believed the allies unfairly punished them after WWI
True
This type of government has elected officials that are voted in by the people.
The German air force used this tactic, it involved attacking lightning fast.
What is Blitzkrieg?
These two countries lost the most and the least amount of soldiers during WWII, respectively.
What is the USSR and the US?
The Jews in Germany were sent off to these prison camps.
Double points if you can answer this:
What was the name of the most infamous of these?This was one of the largest, and Germany had planned to implement it's "Final Solution" here.
What is a Concentration camp?
What was Auschwitz?
This fraction of European Jews died during the Holocaust
You ask a friend about what their government is like, and they mention how there's a super powerful leader with a strong military backing them. You tell them about democracy, and they mention how that sounds like the opposite of what they live under. The government they live under is...
What is Fascism?
US soldiers on a ship in the English channel in 1944 would've been part of this important event
What is the D-Day invasion?
Hitler and Stalin signed a treaty that secretly divided this country between them.
Jews were crowded into these
What are Ghettos?
A rough estimate of how many people died in the two atomic bomb explosions in Japan.
What is ~194,000 people?
You read an article written by someone explaining the government they live under. There's one ruling party, and they got rid of all the rest. They spy on everyone, control the media, and use the military to suppress protests and any opposition. It sounds like they're living under...
What is totalitarianism?
What was the US doing before they joined the war?
They were lending weapons to England and protected British ships that were close to the US using their navy.
The year is 1947. Your country used to be a military power, but no longer is. You most likely live in...
What is France?
The Aryans
What are pure blooded Germans?
True or False
Germany began bombing France after invading England
False
Socialism
The difference between socialism and communism
A type of government that encourages collaboration, distributed wealth among citizens, etc.
Communism believes in the working class controlling everything, while socialism traditionally leaves some control up to a central government.
In a last ditch effort to win the war, the Germans launched this counter attack that was named...
Over the course of Hitler's rule, he banned many freedoms and rights that are traditionally found in a democratic society.
Name at least three.
What is freedom of speech, the right to practice religion, the right to gather in groups, and freedom of the press?
The Death squads, and the country they belong to.
What is soldiers who followed advancing German armies into places they took and were responsible for mass murder by shooting Jews and civilians on sight?
What is Germany?
True or False
Hitler demanded European powers give up territory surrounding Germany, including a territory coined the Sudetenland. Britain and France refused all of his demands. Because of this, Germany invaded Poland starting WWII.
False