WWII Review

Between Wars

100

Define appeasement

To give in to another's demands to avoid conflict

200

Who are the Axis Powers? 

Germany- Hitler Italy- Mussolini Japan- Tojo

300

Hitler invaded this area first which broke the rules of the treaty of Versailles

Rhineland

400

The belief that the state is above the importance of the individual is a key characteristic of what government system?

Fascism

500

What event caused Hitler's success in becoming the leader of Germany? Explain two ways he violated the Treaty of Versailles?

Great Depression Military build up and acquiring former Germany lands, stopped payment

WWII

100

Why did Japan attack pearl harbor?

The U.S. had embargoed their oil

200

This battle was where the Allies broke through German lines in France

D-Day invasion of Normandy

300

This battle ended Hitler's military advancement in the USSR

Stalingrad

400

Describe the role of France in WWII.

Declared war against Germany with Britain in 1939 but got destroyed immediately so was occupied by Nazis for most of the war

500

List three reasons why the US choose to use the Atomic Bomb on Japan?

Prevent US losses, the style of fighting for the Japanese was relentless, unconditional surrender policy

Random

100

Communist rule fell in which part of the world during the Revolutions of 1989?

The Eastern Bloc/Satellite States

200

Define Blitzkrieg

Lightening war, fast moving forces to overwhelm their enemy

300

Name of the event: Germans try to bomb London into submission?

Battle of Britain

400

At the Yalta Conference this was the major outcome?

Creation of the United Nations

500

List 4 terms of the Treaty of Versailles for Germany after WWI

1) Admit causing the war- war guilt clause 2) No military 3) Rhineland occupied by France 4) Reparations 5) Loss of Alsace & Lorraine to France

Holocaust

100

Name 3 groups of people would be put into concentration camps?

Jews, homosexuals, gypsies (Roma), people with disabilities, political enemies

200

Define Kristallnacht

Night of the broken glass, Nazis vandalize Jewish stores and steal their property

300

What were Nuremberg laws?

Deprived Jews of citizenship and banned intermarriage with Jews

400

This term was considered the "master race"

Aryan

500

What form did the Holocaust take in the beginning of the war?

Eintzgrauppen - mobile killing squads of SS shot Jews en masse

Modern Communism

100

Why was the Berlin Wall built?

To keep East Berliners from fleeing to the West

200

Mao's program to industrialize China was called

The Great Leap Forward

300

Name Mao's three communist reforms to China's economy.

Nationalize industry, redistribute land to peasants, collectivize agriculture

400

Name the military alliances for East and West in the Cold War

East: Warsaw Pact; West: NATO

500

Name the "Four Olds" of the Cultural Revolution

Old habits, old customs, old ideas, old culture