Interwar period
Misc
Battles
Picture this
The Pacific
100
Define "appeasement"
Giving in, or diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor.
100
Which European leader was featured as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year?" in 1938.
Hitler
100
Explain Blitzkrieg
Offensive military tactic calculated to create psychological shock and resultant disorganization in enemy forces through the employment of surprise, speed, and superiority in matériel or firepower.
100
What is this?
Radar
100
Japan was short of what resource due to the trade embargoes implemented by the US?
Oil
200
Which group of people did Hitler blame for Germany's financial situation in the interwar period?
The Jews
200
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, The Soviet/Ukrainian Sniper, had a nickname. What was it?
Lady Death
200
Put these events in order:
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
Hitler annexes Austria
Hitler invades Poland
1. Hitler Annexes Austria
2. Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
3. Hitler invades Poland
4. Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
200
What is this event?
Operation Dynamo (Evacuation at Dunkirk)
200
About half of all casualties during the bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred on which ship?
USS Arizona
300
Which public figure began his career as a socialist and eventually became a fascist dictator?
Benito Mussolini
300
What was the Commissar Order?
Hitler's order that Communist Party officials be shot immediately upon capture.
300
Name one of Hitler's mistakes leading to the failure of Operation Barbarossa.
He underestimated Russia's strength
He ordered an attack on Stalingrad
He rerouted tanks south and delayed the support to troops in Moscow
His army was not prepared for a winter war
300
Who is this? (Name and position)
Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister at the beginning of the war.
300
The Tripartite Pact was a pact between which nations?
Italy
Germany
Japan
400
What caused Germany's hyperinflation following WWI?
Printing more money to pay their war debt.
400
“... we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary _________. ”
-Winston Churchill
alone
400
After which battle did Churchill say, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Battle of Britain.
400
What is this photo?
Hitler's "Man of the Year" cover from Time Magazine.
400
Japan invaded which nation leading up to the war, causing the US to intervene?
China
500
The Munich Agreement provided the "Secession to Germany of the Sudetenland German territory" of what nation?
Czechoslovakia
500
Who were the Vichy Police?
Fascist French collaborationist police force in the Unoccupied zone of France.
500
During Operation Barbarossa, what was Germany's idealogical target in Russia?
Leningrad
500
Who is this?
Hermann Goering
500
During his speech to Congress, President Roosevelt said, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in _____________, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked..."
Infamy