Chapter 22

Question 1

Nationalistic, totalitarian mass movement

Answer 1

Fascism

Question 2

Attempt to satisfy a dictator by giving in to his demands

Answer 2

Appeasement

Question 3

“Lightning war”

Answer 3

Blitzkrieg

Question 4

German army

Answer 4

Wehrmacht

Question 5

Placement of people in detention camps

Answer 5

Internment

Question 6

Government limitation on the purchase of scarce goods

Answer 6

Rationing

Question 7

Massacre of millions of Jews and others the Nazis considered “lesser peoples”

Answer 7

Holocaust

Question 8

Allies strategy for the defeat of Japan

Answer 8

Island hopping

Question 9

Japanese suicide pilot

Answer 9

Kamikaze

Question 10

Union of Austria and Germany

Answer 10

Anschluss

Question 11

Dictator of Nazi Germany

Answer 11

Adolf Hitler

Question 12

Dictator of Fascist Italy

Answer 12

Benito Mussolini

Question 13

Military head of Japan

Answer 13

Hideki Tojo

Question 14

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Answer 14

Joseph Stalin

Question 15

British champion of appeasement

Answer 15

Neville Chamberlain

Question 16

British prime minister

Answer 16

Winston Churchill

Question 17

Republican candidate for president in 1940

Answer 17

Wendell Willkie

Question 18

US president during most of WWII

Answer 18

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 19

Supreme Allied commander in Europe

Answer 19

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 20

US president at the close of WWII

Answer 20

Harry Truman

Question 21

What act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished?

Answer 21

Lend-Lease Act

Question 22

What agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their “common principles” and goals in the war effort?

Answer 22

Atlantic Charter

Question 23

In which section of Northern France did the Allied Expeditionary Force land in 1944?

Answer 23

Normandy

Question 24

At which winter battle did the Nazis counterattack against the Allied invasion of Europe, almost stopping the advance into Germany?

Answer 24

Battle of the Bulge

Question 25

Which country did German soldiers invade, beginning World War II?

Answer 25

Poland

Question 26

Which event if WWII occurred first?

Answer 26

German occupation of the Rhineland

Question 27

What type of warfare was the Battle of Britain?

Answer 27

Air combat

Question 28

What was the main provision of the Neutrality Act of 1939?

Answer 28

Requirement that warring nations purchase weaponry from the United States on a cash basis and carry it in their own ships

Question 29

Which American hero became a leading spokesman for isolationism?

Answer 29

Charles Lindbergh

Question 30

Who was the commander of all American forces in the Far East?

Answer 30

Douglas McArthur

Question 31

Which event brought the United States into WWII?

Answer 31

Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 32

Who was the American admiral commanding US forces at the Battle of Midway?

Answer 32

Chester Nimitz

Question 33

What did “Rosie the Riviter” symbolize during WWII?

Answer 33

Working women

Question 34

Who was the famous German “Desert Fox”?

Answer 34

Erwin Rommel

Question 35

Where did American forces first fight the Germans?

Answer 35

North Africa

Question 36

Which British commander helped to defeat the Germans in North Africa?

Answer 36

Bernard Montgomery