WW2

Question 1

Saar plebiscite

Answer 1

1935 Saar region of Rhineland votes to rejoin Germany

Question 2

Abyssinia invasion

Answer 2

1935 - 1936, Mussolini takes Abyssinia = Ethiopia

Question 3

March on Rhineland

Answer 3

March 7 1936

Question 4

Brenner Pass

Answer 4

Pass between Italy and Austria 1934 Mussolini sends reinforcements

Question 5

Rome-Berlin Axis

Answer 5

1936

Question 6

Anti-Comintern Pact

Answer 6

1936 Anti International communism

Question 7

Anschluss

Answer 7

March 1938 annexation of Austria

Question 8

Munich conference

Answer 8

September 1938 Hitler gets Sudetenlland

Question 9

Invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia

Answer 9

March 1939

Question 10

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Answer 10

August 1939 Non aggression between Germany and USSR

Question 11

Pact of steel

Answer 11

1939 reinforces links between Italy and Germany

Question 12

Invasion of Poland

Answer 12

September 1 1939

Question 13

GB and France declare war on Germany

Answer 13

September 3 1939

Question 14

Axis victory

Answer 14

September 1939 - December 1941 (Pearl Harbor)

Question 15

Turning point of the war

Answer 15

December 1941 - February 1943 (Stalingraad)

Question 16

Allied victory

Answer 16

February 1943 - August 1945 (End of war)

Question 17

Phony war

Answer 17

September 1939 - May 1940 France along Maginot line and Germany along Siegfried line

Question 18

Defeat of France

Answer 18

June 17 1940

Question 19

Appel de général de Gaulle

Answer 19

June 18 1940

Question 20

Entrevue de Montoire

Answer 20

October 24 1940 Pétain and Hitler shake hands

Question 21

Battle of Britain

Answer 21

July-Sept 1940 intense German bombing of UK

Question 22

The Blitz

Answer 22

Sept 1940-May 1941 bombing of British cities

Question 23

Operation Sea Lion

Answer 23

German plan to invade Britain - never executed

Question 24

Battle of the Atlantic

Answer 24

1939-1945 submarine warfare vs Allied supply lines

Question 25

Invasion of the Balkans

Answer 25

April 1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

Question 26

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 26

June 22 1941 German invasion of USSR

Question 27

Siege of Leningrad

Answer 27

Sept 1941-Jan 1944 900-day siege

Question 28

Pearl Harbor attack

Answer 28

December 7 1941 US enters war

Question 29

Battle of Midway

Answer 29

June 1942 US destroys 4 Japanese carriers

Question 30

Operation Torch

Answer 30

Nov 1942 Allied landings in North Africa

Question 31

Battle of El Alamein

Answer 31

Oct 1942 Axis stopped in Egypt

Question 32

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 32

Feb 2 1943 German surrender - turning point

Question 33

Italy surrenders

Answer 33

Sept 1943 Mussolini removed

Question 34

D-Day (Operation Overlord)

Answer 34

June 6 1944 Normandy landings

Question 35

Liberation of Paris

Answer 35

August 25 1944

Question 36

Yalta Conference

Answer 36

February 1945 Allies plan postwar order

Question 37

Hitler's suicide

Answer 37

April 30 1945

Question 38

VE-Day

Answer 38

May 8 1945 Germany surrenders

Question 39

Hiroshima bombing

Answer 39

August 6 1945

Question 40

Nagasaki bombing

Answer 40

August 9 1945

Question 41

Japan surrenders (VJ-Day)

Answer 41

September 2 1945

Question 42

Wannsee Conference

Answer 42

January 20 1942 Final Solution decided

Question 43

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Answer 43

Largest death camp ~1.1M victims

Question 44

Holocaust by bullets

Answer 44

1941-1943 Eastern mass shootings

Question 45

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Answer 45

April 1943 Jewish resistance

Question 46

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 46

Nov 1945-Oct 1946 Nazis judged

Question 47

Creation of the UN

Answer 47

June 1945 San Francisco Charter