WWI Vocab
Name of the Archduke whose assassination prompted the beginning of WW1
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Which of these countries was NOT part of the Axis powers? Italy, Japan, the USSR, Germany
The USSR
What was the Holocaust?
The organized killing of Jews and other groups by the Nazis during World War II.
What event prompted the USA to get involved in World War I?
The sinking of the British cruise ship Lusitania by a German U-boat
What event caused the United States to get involved in World War II?
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941
Name the countries in the Central Powers.
Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Germany
List the major Allied countries that were a part of WWII
France, Britain, the USSR, the US
What was the name of the laws that stripped Jews of their rights?
The Nuremberg Laws
This is a military tactic in which opposing sides dug a network of deep ditches to fight each other from, and was the main method of fighting during World War I.
Trench warfare
What was the official start of World War II, and when did this occur?
The German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939
Name 3 of the main countries in the Allied powers during World War I
France, Russia, Britain (also Japan, Italy, Belgium)
Name of the military strategy used by the Nazis which consisted of sudden and unexpected attacks.
Blitzkrieg
How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?
About 6 million
It was the use of this type of boat by Germany that prompted the United States to get involved in World War I.
U-boat (submarine)
Which was the last country to surrender?
Japan
Name of the British ship sunk by Germany
The largest military operation launched by the Axis forces to attack the USSR.
Operation Barbarossa
How did Hitler control what the rest of Europe and Germany knew about the Holocaust?
Through propaganda and media control.
When did World War I end?
In 1918
What countries declared war on Germany in 1939?
Which of the following was NOT used for the time during World War I? Rifles, tanks, fighter planes, poison gas
Rifles
Name the 2 Japanese cities where the US dropped the atomic bombs
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Describe 4 cruelties suffered by the Jews in the concentration camps at the hands of the Nazis.
Death by overwork/starvation, death by gas chamber, medical experimentation, etc.
What was the name of the Treaty that put an end to WW1?
The Treaty of Versailles
How did Hitler die?
He commited suicide