Humanities |WWII

Question 1

Which countries were part of the Axis Powers?

Answer 1

Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Question 2

Which countries were part of the Allied Powers?

Answer 2

Britain (incl. Aus), Russia, and the USA.

Question 3

When did World War II begin?

Answer 3

September 1st, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.

Question 4

What tactic did Germans use to invade?

Answer 4

Used tactic of Blitzkrieg (lightning war).

Question 5

Blitzkrieg tactics

Answer 5

• Aircraft were used to bomb and intimidate
• Paratroopers were used to move infantry quickly

Question 6

What was the name of the British Prime Minister who declared war on Germany after its invasion of Poland?

Answer 6

Neville Chaimberlain.

Question 7

What is the Reichstag?

Answer 7

The German Parliament Building

Question 8

What date did the reichstag fire take place?

Answer 8

February 27, 1933.

Question 9

Although the origins of who started the reichtag fire are unclear, who did the Nazis blame?

Answer 9

They blamed the Communists (the nazis hate communists)

Question 10

What did blaming the communists allow the Nazis to do?

Answer 10

• Arrest and imprison political opponents without charge
• dissolve political organisations
• Suppress publications.

Question 11

Causes of World War II

Answer 11

• The failure of the league of nations
• The legacy of WWI
• Germany invading Poland in 1939

Question 12

How did the Nazis establish power in Germany?

Answer 12

• The Great Depression
• Like the majority of the citizens, they didn’t like the harshness of the TOV, especially its reparations.

Question 13

What is a Putsch?

Answer 13

A violent attempt at seizing political power.

Question 14

Beer Hall Putsch

Answer 14

Hitler and his Stormtroopers interrupted a gathering of influential men and forced them to back his putsch.

Question 15

Why was the beer hall putsch ultimately unsuccessful?

Answer 15

• They made series of mistakes that led to Hitler getting arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison
• During his time in prison, he wrote Mein Kampf (my struggle)

Question 16

Nazi Ideology

Answer 16

• Only the strong survive
• Hate communism (communism vs. fascism)
• Germany must gain lebensraum (living space)

Question 17

The Night of Long Knives

Answer 17

• 30th of June 1934
• Hitler used the SS to murder ~180 leaders of the SA and other political opponents.
• Hitler claimed the SA were planning an uprising

Question 18

Why did PM John Curtin declare Australia look beyond Britain for help (to the USA)

Answer 18

Becuase Britain lacked resources to protect Australia or any of its colonies in the Pacific.

Question 19

‘Fortress Singapore’ Falls

Answer 19

Malaya and Singapore were defended by British, Indian and Aus. 8th Div. troops.

Question 20

What happened at the end of January 1942?

Answer 20

Malaya had fallen, and the Japanese started bombing Singapore.

Question 21

What happened on the 15th of February 1942?

Answer 21

Fall of singapore (The British commander surrendered to Japanese force half the size)

Question 22

Darwin was attacked by how many air raids and when?

Answer 22

• Two air raids and 90 bombers
• February 1942 (19th)

Question 23

The AIF couldn’t defend Australia, so who did instead?

Answer 23

The militia (backup military comprising of normal citizens)

Question 24

Militia of the 39th Battalion were ordered to advance along the Kokoda Track to stop the Japanese. When did this happen?

Answer 24

June 1942.

Question 25

What were the members of the 39th batallion nicknamed by members of the AIF, and why?

Answer 25

'Chocos', because they were expected to melt in the heat of battle.

Question 26

When did AIF reinforcements arrive for the chocos?

Answer 26

Late august.

Question 27

Why did japan attack Pearl Harbor? (em-- policy)

Answer 27

* Political self-interests * Resource scarcity * America's embargo policy.

Question 28

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 28

Hitler invaded the USSR, remove the ‘racial inferiors’ and repopulate with Germans.

Question 29

Pearl Harbour

Answer 29

* The biggest threat to Japan’s supplies was the USA, and its naval dominance in the Pacific. * 7th of December 1941

Question 30

List 3 significant places Australia fought.

Answer 30

* Singapore * Kokoda Track * Tobruk, North Africa

Question 31

List some turning points of the WWII Pacific War

Answer 31

* Battle of Midway * Kokoda Track

Question 32

List some turning points of the WWII War in Europe

Answer 32

Operations.. * Barbarossa * Overlord * Sealion

Question 33

What's another name for the D-Day Landings?

Answer 33

Operation Overlord

Question 34

When were the D-Day Landings, and where did they happen?

Answer 34

* They happened on 6/6/44 * They happened in Normandy, France

Question 35

When was Hiroshima blown up and with which bomb? | hiroshima: 🤯

Answer 35

6th Aug 1945, with 9700-pound bomb 'Little Boy'

Question 36

When was Nagasaki blown up and with which bomb? | everyone dead in nagasaki 🤓

Answer 36

9th Aug 1945, with 10,300-pound bomb **'FAT MAN'**

Question 37

When did the British occupy Australia, and why?

Answer 37

In 1788, under the legal assumption that Australia was ‘Terra nullius’ - empty land in Latin

Question 38

What did the British claim when they arrived in Australia that allowed them to colonize it?

Answer 38

They claimed there were no permanent settlements or evidence of agriculture in Australia, which made it legal to colonize.

Question 39

Which two sections in the constitution affected Aboriginal people the most?

Answer 39

Section 51, and 127.

Question 40

Australian Constitution Section 51

Answer 40

The federal government had responsibility over all Australians except Aboriginals.

Question 41

Australian Constitution Section 127

Answer 41

Aboriginal natives shouldn't be counted in the census.

Question 42

The Stolen Generations.

Answer 42

A period of time where Aboriginal (especially half-caste) children were taken away from their families and raised in orphanages/selective schools.

Question 43

The Policy of Assimilation

Answer 43

A policy of absorbing Aboriginal people into white society through the process of removing children from their families.

Question 44

Bringing them home report

Answer 44

A tribute to the strength and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by forced removal.

Question 45

First Nations People

Answer 45

An alias of the phrase *Indigenous People*

Question 46

Operation Dynamo

Answer 46

A codename for the mass evacuation of British, Belgian and French forces from Calais, Oostende and Dunkirk

Question 47

How many people were evacuated in operation Dynamo?

Answer 47

338,226 troops

Question 48

Japan sought an Asian and Pacific empire, called what?

Answer 48

The ‘Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere’

Question 49

Operation Sealion

Answer 49

Nazi Germany’s code name for the plan for an invasion of Britain