Quiz WWII - Terms

Question 1

Adolf Hitler

Answer 1

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer in 1934. He is the reason for WWII and is behind the deaths of millions of Jewish people.

Question 2

Allies

Answer 2

The Allies in the beginning of WWII were Great Britain, France and the Commonwealth. When Germany invaded France they were still considered an ally but they were unable to really help out. When Germany tried to invade the Soviet Union, the U.S.S.R. reached out to the Allied forces and asked for them to help. When the Germans failed the Soviet Union joined the Allies and fought against the Nazi’s.

Question 3

Anschluss

Answer 3

• Anschluss, German: “Union”, political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938. The Anschluss was among the first major steps in Austrian-born Hitler’s desire to create a Greater German Reich that was to include all ethnic Germans and all the lands and territories that the German Empire had lost after the First World War

Question 4

Appeasement

Answer 4

• making concessions to an aggressive foreign power in order to avoid war.

Question 5

Autobahn

Answer 5

• A project that Hilter started to help the unemployment in Germany

Question 6

Axis

Answer 6

• The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries recognized German domination over most of continental Europe; Italian domination over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese domination over East Asia and the Pacific.

Question 7

Benito Mussolini

Answer 7

• Benito Mussolini was an Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945. Called “Il Duce” (the Leader) by his countrymen or simply “Mussolini,” he allied himself with Adolf Hitler during World War II, relying on the German dictator to prop up his leadership.

Question 8

Black-shirts

Answer 8

• The ‘Black Shirts’ (‘Camice Nere’ or CCNN) were the party militia of the Italian Fascist Party.

Question 9

Brown-shirts

Answer 9

• Member of an early Nazi paramilitary organisation, the Sturmabteilung or SA (‘assault division’).

Question 10

Chancellor

Answer 10

• a person in a position of the highest or high rank, especially in a government or university

Question 11

Édouard Daladier

Answer 11

• Daladier was Minister of Defence from 1936 to 1940 and Prime Minister again in 1938. As head of government, he expanded the French welfare state in 1939. Along with Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, Daladier signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, which gave Nazi Germany control over the Sudetenland.

Question 12

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 12

Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister as Great Britain entered World War II. He is known for his policy of “appeasement” toward Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. He was told by the King of England to either retire or he would forcefully be removed from office.

Question 13

Emperor Hirohito

Answer 13

• Hirohito was emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. During World War II, Japan attacked nearly all of its Asian neighbours, allied itself with Nazi Germany and launched a surprise assault on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Hirohito presided over the invasion of China, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and eventually, the Japanese surrender to the Allies. Many historical sources have portrayed Hirohito as powerless, constrained by military advisers that were making all the decisions. Some have even portrayed him as a pacifist.

Question 14

Eugenics

Answer 14

a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population (Used by the Spartans)

Question 15

Fascist

Answer 15

• The Nazi government that ruled under Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945 was a fascist government. Fascism is a far-right theory of government that opposes the political philosophies of the Enlightenment and the 19th century, including democratic liberalism, communism, and socialism.

Question 16

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 16

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. On January 10, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt introduced the lend-lease program to Congress. The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler’s advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II.

Question 17

Fuhrer

Answer 17

• Führer, also spelled Fuehrer, German Führer, (“Leader”), title used by Adolf Hitler to define his role of absolute authority in Germany’s Third Reich.

Question 18

Hitler-Jugend (HJ)

Answer 18

• The Hitler Youth, often abbreviated as HJ, was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. From 1936 until 1945, it was the sole official boys’ youth organisation in Germany and it was partially a paramilitary organisation. It was composed of the Hitler Youth proper for male youths aged 14 to 18, and the German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth for younger boys aged 10 to 14.

Question 18

Hideki Tojo

Answer 18

• Hideki Tojo (December 30, 1884 - December 23, 1948) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from October 17, 1941 to July 22, 1944.

Question 19

Hyperinflation-

Answer 19

• Rapid, excessive, and out-of-control general price increases in an economy. The exchange rate between the dollar and the Mark was one trillion Marks to one dollar

Question 20

Il Duce

Answer 20

• National Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini was identified by Fascists as Il Duce. Means the leader.

Question 21

Indoctrination

Answer 21

• to teach (someone) to fully accept the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group and to not consider other ideas, opinions, and beliefs.

Question 22

Joseph Stalin

Answer 22

• Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.

Question 23

Jungvolk

Answer 23

• The Deutsches Jungvolk in der Hitlerjugend was the separate section for boys aged 10 to 13 of the Hitler Youth organisation in Nazi Germany.

Question 24

Kinder, Kirche, Küche

Answer 24

• or the 3 Ks, is a German slogan translated as “children, kitchen, church” used under the German Empire to describe a woman’s role in society.

Question 25

Lebensborn

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• Nazi authorities created the Lebensborn program to increase Germany’s population. Pregnant German women deemed “racially valuable” were encouraged to give birth to their children at Lebensborn homes. During World War II, the program became complicit in the kidnapping of foreign children with physical features considered “Aryan” by the Nazis.

Question 26

Lebensraum

Answer 26

• By 1939, Nazi Germany was ready for the next phase of Hitler’s racial program, which called for Lebensraum, or “living space,” for the Aryan race. The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 both set this quest for “race and space” in motion and began World War II in Europe

Question 27

Mein Kampf

Answer 27

• Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.

Question 28

Munich Agreement

Answer 28

• The Munich Agreement, (September 30, 1938), was the settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.

Question 29

Nazi

Answer 29

• A member of a German political party that controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler. Evil people who want to use power to control and harm other people especially because of their race, religion, etc. The explicit reason was to swiftly end the war with Japan. But it was also intended to send a message to the Soviets.

Question 30

Night of the Long Knives

Answer 30

• The SS assassinated many of the SA’s leadership, including its leader Ernst Röhm. Officially just under 100 members die. This wipes out opposition to Hitler within the Nazi Party. It also gives more power to the SS.

Question 31

Order Castles

Answer 31

• Order Castles were at the very pinnacle of the education system in Nazi Germany. Order Castles were “the highest residential academies for the training of the Nazi elite” and they catered for those who at their age would have attended university or were slightly older.

Question 32

Performance Book

Answer 32

• A book where you would get grades and stars for achievements and things you had done at these Nazi schools. For activities at these “schools” like sports, races, hide and seek they would get stars and grades if they won or did well.

Question 33

Pimpfen

Answer 33

• Pimpf is a German nickname for a boy before his voice changes. It is a colloquial word from Upper German meaning “boy”, “little rascal”, “scamp”, or “rapscallion”.

Question 34

Proletariat

Answer 34

• The proletariat includes industrial workers, agricultural workers, freelancers, and lower- and mid-level office workers.

Question 35

RAD

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• The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) was a major organisation established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology.

Question 36

Rearmament

Answer 36

• the act of arming again. “he opposed the rearmament of Japan after World War II” type of: armament, arming, equipping. the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war.

Question 37

Reichstag

Answer 37

By 1943, the building was used as a hospital, and a radio tube manufacturing facility by AEG.

Question 38

Self sufficient

Answer 38

• adjective. If a country or group is self-sufficient, it is able to produce or make everything that it needs.

Question 39

Sitzkrieg

Answer 39

• The Phoney War, called “Sitzkrieg” in German, was an eight-month period at the start of World War II. No one actually attacked each other and there was no fighting on this front.

Question 40

SS

Answer 40

The SS. The SS (Schutzstaffel, or Protection Squads) was originally established as Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard unit. It would later become both the elite guard of the Nazi Reich and Hitler’s executive force prepared to carry out all security-related duties, without regard for legal restraint. Key Facts.

Question 41

Sudetenland

Answer 41

• The Sudetenland was a border area of Czechoslovakia containing a majority ethnic German population as well as all of the Czechoslovak Army’s defensive positions in event of a war with Germany.

Question 42

Swastika

Answer 42

• In the Western world, it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck until the 1930s when the German Nazi Party adopted a right-facing form and used it as an emblem of the Aryan race. As a result of World War II and the Holocaust, many people in the West still strongly associate it with Nazism and antisemitism.

Question 43

Totalitarian

Answer 43

• Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control and regulation over public and private life.
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Question 44

Winston Churchill

Answer 44

• As prime minister (1940–45) during most of World War II, Winston Churchill rallied the British people and led the country from the brink of defeat to victory. He shaped Allied strategy in the war, and in the war’s later stages he alerted the West to the expansionist threat of the Soviet Union.