Know Your Geography
U.S.S.R.
WWII Allies
The Holocaust
Mr. Metz Mentioned It
200
Formerly known as Russia, this county sets up a totalitarian government in 1922.
What is the Soviet Union?
200
This event in Russia Jan. 1905, caused people to lose faith in the czar propelling feelings towards a new government.
What is Bloody Sunday?
200
After 1940, this was the only Ally left in Western Europe to fight Germany and the other Axis Powers.
What is England, Great Britain, or The United Kingdom?
200
The Nazis believed this Germanic group of people were the "master race" of human beings.
Who are Aryans?
200
This means "lightning war" in German.
What is blitzkrieg?
400
In 1935, Italy invaded this African country in order to attain oil and mineral resources.
What is Ethiopia?
400
This term is used to describe a Russian Congress, to bad it didn't work out for democracy.
What is a duma?
400
The attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 1941, brought this major Ally into WWII.
What is the United States of America?
400
Know as the "Night of Broken Glass" in Nov. 1938, people went crazy attacking anything that belonged to the Jews all over Germany.
What is Kristallnacht?
400
He was the President of the United States through the Great Depression and most of WWII.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
600
In 1931, Japan attacked this upper region in China to gain its numerous resources.
What is Manchuria?
600
He is known as the father of communism, he was a German economist that thought up the ideas.
Who is Karl Marx?
600
During the 1930's, European Allies practiced this policy towards Germany that enabled Hitler to break the Treaty of Versailles.
What is appeasement?
600
These were city neighborhoods sectioned off where Jews were forced to live throughout Europe.
What is a ghetto?
600
This was another name for people known as the Gypsies.
Who are the Roma?
800
During WWII, the countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were attacked by the Soviet Union and are also known by this particular name.
What are the Baltic States or Baltic Countries?
800
These were part of Stalin's Five Year Plan to change his economy, he created the large government owned farms.
What are collective farms?
800
Operation Barbarossa launched by the Germans in June 1941 brought this country to the side of the Allies for the rest of WWII.
What is the U.S.S.R.?
800
Examples of these were Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz. Somewhat different than a concentration camp.
What is a death camp?
800
These people were starved to death during the Holodomor.
Who are the Kulaks?
1000
Not a separate country in the 1930's but this region located in the USSR was the location of the Holodomor.
What is the Ukraine?
1000
He was the head of the Bolshevik Party in 1917, that took control of the government creating the U.S.S.R.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
1000
In June 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord to land in this famous region of France, thus getting a foothold on the European Continent.
What is Normandy?
1000
This is Hitler's name for the plan to systematically kill the entire Jewish people.
What is "The Final Solution"?
1000
During the 1930's, Hitler complained about not having "lebensraum" for his German people, which means this in English.
What is living space?