Chapter 23 Test

Question 1

He was the leader of the fascist party in Italy. He became dictator of Italy and took steps to build Italy into a major military and political power

Answer 1

Benito Mussolini

Question 2

The prime minister of Great Britain during WWII; he realized the only hope for preserving freedom in Europe was to make a valiant stand against Germany

Answer 2

Winston Churchill

Question 3

The nationalist Chinese leader who asked the US for assistance against Japan

Answer 3

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 4

The American General who led the D-day invasion

Answer 4

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 5

A non-aggression pact signed by Hitler and Stalin which included a secret agreement to jointly invade Eastern Europe an divide the land between the two leaders

Answer 5

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Question 6

When did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?

Answer 6

December 7, 1941

Question 7

June 6, 1944- thousands of Allied troops hit the beaches of Normandy in northern France, launching the largest amphibious assault in history;

Answer 7

D-Day

Question 8

Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped

Answer 8

Hiroshima

Question 9

The systematic slaughter of Jews (and others) in concentration camps by the Nazis

Answer 9

Holocaust

Question 10

A form of socialism which allows people to keep their private property but takes away their freedoms

Answer 10

Fascism

Question 11

The most destructive weapon ever created by man

Answer 11

Atomic bomb

Question 12

Turned the tide of the war

Answer 12

Battle of Midway

Question 13

The first naval battle in history in which the enemy ships never even saw each other

Answer 13

Battle of Coral Sea

Question 14

What are the dates of World War II

Answer 14

1939-1945

Question 15

The communist dictator of Russia

Answer 15

Joseph Stalin

Question 16

Third empire; hitler called this his new government

Answer 16

Third Reich

Question 17

What means the leader

Answer 17

Der Fuhrer

Question 18

The legislative assembly of Germany

Answer 18

Reichstag

Question 19

Combination of political parties

Answer 19

Coalition

Question 20

The worst economic depression the nation has ever experienced; stock market crashed, banks closed, factories cut down

Answer 20

Great Depression

Question 21

Former the new deal policy to help Americans during the depression; he was a US leader during WWI up until the time of his death

Answer 21

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 22

When the Nazis bombed the city of London mercilessly, many British people lost their lives, but few ever lost the courage or determination to fight

Answer 22

Battle of Britain

Question 23

What was the book that hitler wrote

Answer 23

Mein Kampf

Question 24

Made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927

Answer 24

Charles Lindbergh

Question 25

Leader of the afrika corps

Answer 25

General Erwin Rommel

Question 26

Victory in Europe day

Answer 26

V-E day

Question 27

When Japan lost almost all of its remaining ships and planes

Answer 27

Battle of Leyte

Question 28

Where the second bomb was dropped

Answer 28

Nagasaki

Question 29

Built for the express purpose of Germans and others who resisted him

Answer 29

Concentration camps

Question 30

Fought modernism in the universities by refuting the error of evolution

Answer 30

Harry Rimmer

Question 31

Formulated the system known as psychoanalysis

Answer 31

Sigmund Freud