World History WWII Review

Vocab

100

What is blitzkrieg?

Fast moving forces that use tanks and planes

200

Casablanca Conference?

Meeting that determined only an unconditional surrender from Hitler would be accepted.

300

Characteristics of a totalitarian government?

1) Dominate political party or dictator 

2) Government runs business 

3) Newspapers/media are gov controlled

400

What conference determined that D-Day will be a future military operation?

Tehran Conference

500

This was Hilter's first military acquisition 

Rhineland

WWII

100

This event pulled the US into WWII?

Pearl Harbor

200

What was the Battle of Britain?

Hilter's attempt to bomb London into submission for a surrender

300

This battle was Hitler's first defeat?

Stalingrad

400

This country was agreed to be split between Stalin and Hitler

Poland

500

This was an area that Hitler created a deal with England to acquire from Czechoslovakia? 

Sudetenland 

Holocaust

100

How many people were killed during the holocaust?  How many were Jewish?

1) 11 million 

2) 6 million

200

Besides Jews, who else were targeted for concentration camps?

physical and mental disabilities, gypsies, homosexuals

300

What is Kristallnacht? 

1) Night of shattered glass 

2) Jewish shops were destroyed, promoted by the government

400

Define Final Solution

Hitler's plan to execute in mass volumes of those in camps during the war

500

What was an example of a Nuremburg Law?

1) Jews could not marry non Jews 

2) Jews must wear star 

3) Jews were banned from movie theaters

Communism

100

This country is split by using a line of latitude 

Korea- 38th parallel

200

What is the Warsaw Pact?

Military alliance of the Soviet Union and it's satellite nations

300

What was the Great Leap Forward?

Mao's push for larger collective farming 

400

This event was led by students in China to protest for more democratic freedom within their country that ultimately turned violent

Tiananmen Square

500

What are the "four olds"?

1) Old customs 

2) Old ideas 

3) Old culture 

4) Old habits

Random

100

What is appeasement?

Act of giving in to avoid conflict

200

Name a country that Japan invaded?

1) China

2) Korea

3) Southeast Asia (Philippines, Vietnam) 

300

What is the night of the long knives?

Hitler ordered the killing of 100 political opponents

400

What outcome took place at Potsdam?

Stalin agreed to have elections in his satellite nations 

500

Name the Axis powers and their leaders

1) Germany Hitler 

2) Italy Mussolini 

3) Japan Tojo/Hirohito