world history 21 and 22. AKA WWII test

Japan invaded which Chinese Province?

Manchuria

Who was the Communist leader of China and started the Long March?

Mao Zedong

Which African country did Mussolini invade?

Ethiopia

German term for "living space"

Lebensraum

Hitler marched into this demilitarized zone ____land

Rhineland

The German, Italy, and Japan alliance was called what?

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

Who was the leader of Fascist Spain?

Francisco Franco

Sudetenland belonged to this country before the Nazis stole it.

Czechoslovakia

To buy off an opponent by giving them what they want is called…

Appeasement

Which British Prime Minister thought he brought "Peace in Our Time" by appeasing Hitler?

Neville Chamberlain

At which conference was the Sudetenland given away?

Munich Conference

The invasion of this country started WWII on September 1, 1939

Poland

What does Blitzkrieg mean?

Lightning war

Which division refers to Hitler's tanks?

Panzer

Which word refers to Hitler's air force?

Luftwaffe

At which port city were Allied Troops evacuated to Britain?

Dunkirk

Describe the Miracle of Dunkirk

The Allied army was pushed back to the beaches of Dunkirk and rescued in a miraculous evacuation (also called the Deliverance)

Which French man ruled Vichy France for the Germans?

Henri Pétain

Who was the leader of the Free French?

Charles de Gaulle

Who was known as the Desert Fox?

Erwin Rommel

Which new invention gave the Royal Air Force an advantage?

Radar

What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia?

Operation Barbarossa

Hitler pulled a "Napoleon" as he failed to prepare for which Russian season?

Winter

Which concentration camp was the largest?

Auschwitz

What was the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

December 7, 1941

Who was the leader of the Japanese Military during the war?

Hideki Tojo

Who was the Japanese Emperor during WWII?

Hirohito

Who was supreme commander of Europe?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Who was supreme commander of the Pacific?

Douglas MacArthur

"A date which will live in infamy" refers to what?

The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

The term D-Day refers to the invasion of which country?

France (Normandy — Operation Overlord)

On what date did D-Day occur?

June 6, 1944

What type of military campaign did the U.S. adopt in the Pacific?

Island Hopping

Japanese suicide pilots are called what?

Kamikaze

Which battle was the last Nazi attack?

Battle of the Bulge

Victory in Europe (V-E Day) took place on this date…

May 8, 1945

List the Big 3 at the conference at Potsdam.

Harry Truman, Clement Attlee, and Stalin

On August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on what city?

Hiroshima

On August 9, 1945 the 2nd atomic bomb was dropped on what city?

Nagasaki

Much like the League of Nations, the United Nations lacks what?

Enforcement power (shortcomings similar to the League of Nations)

What was the German variety of Fascism called?

Nazism

What was the name of Hitler's book that explained the beliefs of the Nazi Party?

Mein Kampf

What group of people did Hitler blame for Germany's problems?

Jews

What position did Hitler attain in 1933?

Chancellor

What is the term for the German superhighway?

Autobahn

Who said "the business of America is business"?

Calvin Coolidge

FDR's policies were better for the US or bad for the US?

Many say it was more harm than good

In the Russian civil war the Communists were called what?

Bolsheviks (the Reds)

The majority provisional government was called what?

Mensheviks (led by Aleksandr Kerensky)

True or False: Russian Communism = killing hundreds of thousands of people

True

True or False: Hitler believed he could use evolution to improve mankind through his Master Race.

True

What does Menshevik mean?

Minority

What does Bolshevik mean?

Majority5