Vocabulary
Allies vs. Axis
Leaders
Causes
Major Events
100
This is a social system in which all property and means of production are owned by the government.
What is communism?
100
Who were the Allied powers? List at least 3...
What are Great Britain, France, Russia (Soviet Union), the U.S., and China
100
He was named TIME Magazine Man of the Year, 1938
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
He was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
At this location, Japan used over 350 aircraft to drop
bombs and torpedoes, pulling the U.S. into World War II?
What is Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
200
This is a system of government characterized by dictatorial control of political and economic affairs.
What is fascism?
200
Who were the Axis powers?
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
200
He was Britain's prime minister during WWII
Who is Winston Churchill?
200
This is known as an intense pride or love for one's country or home-land.
What is Nationalism?
200
This event marked the beginning of WWII.
What is the German invasion of Poland.
300
This is the intentional attempt to exterminate all members of a certain race, nationality, religious, or ethnic group
What is genocide?
300
Out of the Axis powers, which country lost the most soliders?
What is Germany?
300
He was President of the United States during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
This global financial crisis left many nations deep in debt and struggling to rebuild their economies.
What is the Great Depression?
300
These two cities were destroyed by the U.S. with the atomic bomb on August 6 and 9th of 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
400
This is the act of assembling and preparing troops or supplies for active military duty or service.
What is mobilization?
400
Out of the Allied powers, which country lost the most soliders?
What is Russia (Soviet Union)?
400
He was the cruel dictator of the Soviet Union who changed it into a industrial and military powerhouse
Who is Joseph Stalin?
400
This document was the German's reason for the start of WWII, in their opinion...
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
This concentration camp in Poland was the deadliest, with over 1 million people exterminated there alone.
What is Auschwitz-Birkenau?
500
This is information or opinions that are made public to promote or attack a movement, cause, or person
What is propaganda?
500
What was the major difference of the Allies and Axis in the form of government?
The Allies were mostly Democratic and the Axis were Facist.
500
This Italian leader was overthrown and put in jail but rescued by the Germans in 1945?
Who is Benito Mussolini?
500
Britain and France would allow Germany to gain more land and power in hopes they would finally be satisfied. This was known as _____________.
What is appeasement?
500
This deadly political event occurred in 1917/18 Russia, ending in the overthrowing of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of the 300-year long Romanov dynasty
What is the Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution?