WW2

Question 1

Joseph Stalin

Answer 1

He was the dictator of the Soviet Union (Communism)

Question 2

Benito Mussolini

Answer 2

Fascist party leader became dictator of Italy

Question 3

Adolf Hitler

Answer 3

Leader of Nazi Germany generally fascist

Question 4

Winston Churchill

Answer 4

Prime Minister of Great Britain

Question 5

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Answer 5

US leader, stays neutral-supports Britain

Question 6

Totalitarianism

Answer 6

Political system in which government exercises complete control over its citizens

Question 7

Three totalitarian leaders and their country

Answer 7

Hitler-Nazi Germany
Mussolini-Italy
Stalin-Soviet Union

Question 8

Appeasement and why did Europeans choose it?

Answer 8

Appeasement is giving into Hitler’s demands and they choose this because they (France and Britain) weren’t ready to go into war and they thought Germany’s demands were reasonable

Question 9

Result of Germany’s invasion of Poland (Sep 27 1939)

Answer 9

Start of WW2, Germany and Russia invade together and they used Blitzkrieg strategy and Britain and France declared war on Russia(Soviet Union) and Germany

Question 10

Broken Soviet-German Non-aggression pact

Answer 10

Hitler invaded Russia on the Eastern front (1941)

Question 11

What is isolationism? What American acts illustrates it?

Answer 11

Opposition to political and economic entanglements w/ other countries. Neutral acts forbid arms sales to countries at war.

Question 12

Axis Powers

Answer 12

Germany, Japan, Italy

Question 13

1935 and 1939 neutrality acts

Answer 13

Congress made it illegal for the US to sell arms to any country at war (1935)
Warring countries could buy weapons from the US but had to pay cash and use their own ships as transport (1939)

Question 14

Lend-Lease act

Answer 14

The US could lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the US”. Helped Allied nations w/out entering the war

Question 15

Pearl Harbor

Answer 15

U.S stopped oil exchange with Japan, they got mad and Japan bombed their navy base. Sunk or damaged 21 ships , 2403 Americans killed, 12/8/41 America declared war on Japan

Question 16

Tehran conference

Answer 16

Meeting with big 3 allied leaders (US, SU, GB) they planned to open a second front and put axis forces on the defensive. They would invade German occupied France

Question 17

D-day, what was it, what’s the purpose, who was the general of the allies?

Answer 17

Allies land at Normandy coast in France (1944). Allies open a 2nd front vs Hitler to put him on the defensive. Eisenhower was the major general for the allied forces

Question 18

Battle of North Africa, why was it important?

Answer 18

Allies attack Italian and German troops in North Africa because allies need Mediterranean sea to ship oil

Question 19

Battle of the bulge, why is this the beginning of the end?

Answer 19

Germany’s last attempt to break through, however Germany will lose many troops and weapons in this battle, they had to retreat

Question 20

Kristallnacht, what were the Nuremberg Laws, what happened, who was the aggressor, who was attacked

Answer 20

Anti-Jewish laws (Nuremberg laws) this stripped Jews of citizenship and make marriage between Jews and Germans illegal. “Night of broken glass” Anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Austria and Germany, thousands of Jewish businesses and 180 synagogues destroyed

Question 21

Hitler’s final solution, what was it and what was the result?

Answer 21

Final solution of inferior Jews; round up Jews and others from Nazi controlled Europe, sent to concentration camps/detention centers. Elderly, sick, children sent to extermination camps to be killed by gas chambers. Thousands die each day at camps, 6 million Jews dead and several million others

Question 22

Island hopping

Answer 22

American strategy of attacking the islands of their way to Japan

Question 23

Doolittle raid, what happened?

Answer 23

Bombers flew from an aircraft carrier to attack Japanese homeland. Revenge for pearl harbor, raise morale at home

Question 24

Battle of Midway, why was this a turning point in the Pacific war

Answer 24

America sank 4 aircraft carriers (Japanese) which they could never recover from

Question 25

Battle of Iwo Jima, what occurred?

Answer 25

It was heavily fortified, 20,000 Japanese troops protected it, more than 6,000 marines died attempting to take the island. Once victorious, the allies used the air field to bomb Japan

Question 26

Battle of Okinawa, why invade?

Answer 26

Last major island to be taken before planned invasion of Japan, use as airfield for bombs

Question 27

Manhattan project, what was it?

Answer 27

American program to build an atomic bomb was codenamed "Manhattan Project"

Question 28

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, why did Truman use the bombs? What did the soldiers think? What was the result?

Answer 28

Truman believed an invasion of Japan would result in excessive US casualties. He justified the bomb usage by saying US already developed weapon so it should be used. American soldiers thought Japan would never surrender. 214,000 killed from bombs and Japan accepts terms of surrender

Question 29

Women and minorities, how did they make economic gains?

Answer 29

Because of the shortage of traditional labor, women and minorities took up those jobs

Question 30

American post-world economy, how could America adjust so quickly

Answer 30

They adapted easily because they did not suffer major wartime destruction

Question 31

What was the "Rosie the Riveter" poster used for?

Answer 31

The poster was used to recruit women into wartime industries

Question 32

What was the poster on the left used for (Keep hands off)

Answer 32

To give financial backing to war effort

Question 33

Japanese internment camps

Answer 33

US told Japanese it was for their own good, said they might face discrimination. The camps were very ironic as they allowed them to serve in the military(Image of soldier through wire) Many Japanese-Americans lost their homes and businesses while interned

Question 34

Nuremberg trials, why were they held?

Answer 34

To make German leaders accountable for the Holocaust