This is a weapon first used during World War I, examples include mustard and chlorine.
What is poison gas
100
Which of these was NOT a major country in the Axis powers? Soviet Union, Italy, Japan, Germany
What is the Soviet Union
100
What was the Holocaust?
What is the organized killing of Jews and other groups by the Nazis during World War II.
100
What event prompted the USA to get involved in World War I?
What is the sinking of the U.S. merchant ship Lusitania by a German U-boat (the German use of unrestricted submarine warfare)
100
What event caused the United States to get involved in World War II, and when did this event occur?
What is the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941
200
Name 2 of the main countries in the Central Powers.
What are Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Germany
200
List the major Allied countries that were a part of WWII (as in, the ones we discussed in class).
What are France, U.S.A., the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom
200
What is fascism?
What is the philosophy upheld by the Nazis that supports a strong central government controlled by the military and led by a powerful dictator.
200
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.
What is trench warfare
200
What was the official start of World War II, and when did this occur?
What is the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939
300
Name 3 of the main countries in the Allied powers during World War I
What are the USA, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia, and France
300
What and when was D-Day, and where did it occur?
June 6, 1944- The largest land, sea, air combination attack on the Nazis by the Allies on the beaches of Normandy, France.
300
About how many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?
What is 6 million
300
It was the use of this type of vessel by Germany that prompted the United States to get involved in World War I.
What is a U-boat (submarine)
300
The United States fought World War II on two _______. Where were these two _________?
What are fronts. Europe and the Pacific.
400
He was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, who was assassinated by a Serb in June of 1914.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
400
What were the Nuremberg trials?
What is the event in which many Axis powers leaders were tried and convicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity
400
How did Hitler control what the rest of Europe and Germany knew about the Holocaust?
What is through propaganda and media control.
400
When World War I ended in 1918, about how many total deaths were there during the course of the war?
What is about 22 million?
400
How were the eastern and western parts of Europe divided between the Allied countries after World War II?
What is Eastern Europe was controlled by the Soviet Union, Western Europe was split between France, the U.K. and the U.S.A. The division was made in Berlin, Germany.
500
Which of the following was NOT used for the first time during World War I? rifles, tanks, fighter planes, poison gas
What are rifles
500
About how many people were killed during World War II? (hint: it is a range of numbers)
What is between 40-50 million
500
Describe 4 cruelties suffered by the Jews in the concentration camps at the hands of the Nazis.
What is death by overwork/starvation, death by gas chamber, medical experimentation, etc.
500
Which of the following events was not based on alliances between different European countries? How do you know?
1. Russia declares war on Austria-Hungary
2. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
3. Germany declares war on Russia
4. France and Britain declare war on Germany
What is Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, they declared war because of the Serbian assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
500
What were the names of the two Japanese cites on which the U.S.A. dropped the atomic bombs, and what were the dates on which these attacks occurred?
What is Hiroshima- August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki- August 9, 1945