USMH Test 1

Question 1

What are the years of WWI?

Answer 1

1914-1918

Question 2

Who were the big four?

Answer 2

United States, Great Britain, France, Italy

Question 3

What was the name of the meeting where punishments for WW1 were decided?

Answer 3

Paris Peace Conference

Question 4

Who was the pres. of the US during WW1?

Answer 4

Woodrow Wilson

Question 5

Who was one of the only countries not to join the league of nations?

Answer 5

The US

Question 6

What two countries left the Peace Conference angry?

Answer 6

Italy and Japan

Question 7

What was the name of the German government from 1919-1933?

Answer 7

Weimar Republic

Question 8

By November 1923 (the worst of hyperinflation), ________ German marks were equal to a U.S. dollar.

Answer 8

4.2 trillion

Question 9

What was Mussolini’s job before becoming a radical?

Answer 9

Editor of a newspaper

Question 10

What is the name of the political party Mussolini formed?

Answer 10

Fascist

Question 11

What was the Mussolini youth called? When did it form?

Answer 11

Opera Nazionale Balilla, 1926

Question 12

What country did Italy invade in 1935?

Answer 12

Ethiopia

Question 13

What did the union of Germany and Italy form?

Answer 13

Rome-Berlin Axis

Question 14

What country is Hitler from?

Answer 14

Austria-Hungary

Question 15

What did Hitler want to be?

Answer 15

An Artist

Question 16

What was Hitler’s job in the military?

Answer 16

Messenger

Question 17

What injury did hitler get in 1918 to release him from service?

Answer 17

Blindness

Question 18

What do Nazis stand for in german?

Answer 18

National Socialist German Workers Party

Question 19

What does Fuhrer mean?

Answer 19

Supreme leader

Question 20

What were the SA nicknames?

Answer 20

“Brownshirts” or “Storm Troopers”

Question 21

What is the date of the Beer Hall Putsch?

Answer 21

November 9, 1923

Question 22

What does Mein Kampt mean?

Answer 22

My Struggle

Question 23

What does Lebensraum mean?

Answer 23

Living space

Question 24

What is Hitler’s protection squad who wore all black?

Answer 24

The SS

Question 25

In 1930, what misfortune in Germany gave Hitler an opening to take power?

Answer 25

The Great Depression

Question 26

What was Hitler's presidential slogan?

Answer 26

Hitler über Deutschland

Question 27

Who beat Hitler in the 1935 presidential election?

Answer 27

Paul Von Hindenburg

Question 28

What happened on February 27, 1933, that gave Hitler power?

Answer 28

The Reichstag is burnt down

Question 29

Who does Hitler blame for the burning of the Reichstag?

Answer 29

Communist

Question 30

What was the first concentration camp?

Answer 30

Dachau

Question 31

What was the Nazi youth program called

Answer 31

Hitler Youth

Question 32

What was the female nazi youth program?

Answer 32

League of German Girls

Question 33

Who were the secret police?

Answer 33

The Gestapo

Question 34

What does heil Hitler mean?

Answer 34

Long live Hitler

Question 35

Fearing a coup, Hitler ordered the execution of SA leaders (including Rohm) and other political opponents on this night?

Answer 35

The night of long knives

Question 36

What is the name of the greatest nazi propaganda film?

Answer 36

Triumph of the will

Question 37

What did the Nuremberg laws do to Jews?

Answer 37

Made them no longer considered citizens of Germany

Question 37

What did the Nuremberg laws do to Jews?

Answer 37

Made them no longer considered citizens of Germany

Question 38

What was the first country Hilter put his military in?

Answer 38

The Rhineland

Question 39

Where were the 1936 Olympics held?

Answer 39

Berlin

Question 40

Who won 4 gold medals in track and field in the Berlin games, crushing Hitler's hopes?

Answer 40

Jesse Owens

Question 41

What was considered to be the beginning of the Holocaust?

Answer 41

The night of broken glass

Question 42

When was the night of broken glass?

Answer 42

November 9, 1938

Question 43

What are the second and 3rd countries Hitler takes?

Answer 43

Austria and Czechoslovakia

Question 44

The invasion of what country begins WW2?

Answer 44

Poland

Question 45

When did Hitler invade Poland?

Answer 45

September 1, 1939

Question 46

Give examples of what punishments were inflicted on Germany after WWI. One from Territory, one from economic, and 2 from the military.

Answer 46

Rhineland was turned into a demilitarized zone (DMZ) forced to pay the allies reparations for the damage they caused during the war To punish and weaken Germany, their military was greatly reduced: No tanks, No air force, No U-boats Germany was also not allowed to join the League of Nations