| Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union | |
2 | Extreme nationalism was not feared by which class in Italy during Mussolini's rise to power? | the middle class |
3 | Peasants were allowed to sell their produce openly in whose New Economic Policy? | Lenin's |
4 | The goal of whose five year plan was to increase the production of heavy industry? | Stalin's |
5 | Ukraine had peasants specifically targeted during what? | Stalin's Terror Famine |
6 | What 2 groups were specifically targeted by Hitler in Mein Kampf? | Jews and Communists |
7 | In 1933, President Hindenberg designated who as his Chancellor? | Hitler |
8 | Hitler incorrectly associated which term with Ancient Greece and Rome? | Aryan |
9 | Ideology and terror were the 2 base principles of what group? | the SS |
10 | Large public works projects, rearmament and five year plans where not the key to solving which country's economic problems? | Germany's |
11 | Reoccupation of the Rhineland by Hitler in 1936 was a direct violation of what treaty? | the Treaty of Versailles |
12 | Czechoslovakia, Poland and Belgium were not countries annexed by Hitler in 1938 in pursuit of what concept? | Anschluss |
13 | At the Munich conference, Western leaders did what? | Appeased Hitler |
14 | Hitler and Stalin signed what in 1939? | a non aggression pact |
15 | What was desirable to the Japanese because it provided valuable natural resources? | Manchuria |
16 | After the fall of France in the summer of 1940, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland were what kind of nations in western Europe? | Either neutral or under Nazi control |
17 | What Acts hampered FDR's ability to lead the US into WWII by creating a foreign policy of isolationism? | the Neutrality Acts |
18 | Stalingrad was ordered by Hitler to be captured when? | first |
19 | The US destroyed Japan's aircraft carrier fleet in what turning point battle in the Pacific? | the Battle of the Midway |
20 | Total warfare, siege warfare and guerrilla warfare were not the US strategy in which area? | the Pacific |
21 | The war against Germany was known as the Great Patriotic War to who? | the Soviets |
22 | Was the percentage of German and Japanese women employed in industrial work lesser or greater than the percentage of Soviet women employed in factories during the war? | lesser |
23 | London was the first city to experience sustained bombing of what population? | its civilian population |
24 | The SS was the organization that Hitler assigned the responsibility of carrying out what? | his "final solution" or the elimination of European Jews |
25 | Poland had what percentage of its Jewish population killed by Nazis? | 90% |
26 | Italy was where the Allies attacked who after the fall of Tunisia? | the Axis Powers |
27 | Normandy was the landing zone during what? | D-Day |
28 | Okinawa was the last major battle in the Pacific preceding the US doing what? | using atomic bombs |
29 | Was the imposition of reparations on Germany an agreement reached by the Big Three at Yalta? | No |
30 | Churchill described the Soviet Union's domination of Eastern Europe in a warning to Americans as what? | an iron curtain |
1 | Benito Mussolini | founder of Italy's Fascist Party |
2 | Joseph Stalin | dictator of the Soviet Union |
3 | Francisco Franco | fascist leader of Spain |
4 | Victor Emmanuel III | overthrown king of Italy |
5 | Il Duce | the leader |
6 | Heinrich Himmler | head of the SS |
7 | Joseph Goebbels | Minister of Propaganda |
8 | Fuhrer | the leader |
9 | Reichstag | German legislature |
10 | Brownshirts | Hitler's violent supporters |
11 | Neville Chamberlain | promised "peace in our time" |
12 | Pu Yi | puppet emperor of Manchukuo |
13 | Chiang Kai-shek | leader of the Guomindang |
14 | Haile Selassie | emperor of Ethiopia |
15 | Luftwaffe | German air force |
16 | Blitzkrieg | lightning warfare |
17 | Vichy | Nazi puppet government in France |
18 | Dunkirk | site of massive Allied evacuation |
19 | Barbarossa | code name for German invasion of Russia |
20 | Rommel | the Desert Fox |
21 | Mobilization | to prepare for war |
22 | Collaborator | to assist the enemy |
23 | Auschwitz | deadliest concentration camp |
24 | Genocide | the systematic killing of a people |
25 | Slavs | ethnic group targeted by Hitler |
26 | Dwight Eisenhower | Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe |
27 | Harry Truman | US president at the end of WWII |
28 | Hirohito | Emperor of Japan |
29 | Tehran | site of the first summit of Big Three |
30 | Overlord | codename for D-Day |