World War II

Question 1

Weimar Republic

Answer 1

Name of germany between end of WWII and Hitler’s rise to power

Question 2

Totalitarianism

Answer 2

Political ideology involving power centralization, complete control of daily life, ruling by force

Question 3

Fascism

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National superiority, a type of totalitarianism

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Nazism

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Turbo-fascism believing in racial superiority as well

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Communism

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Believes all people are equal and state owns means of production. No concept of class or ownership

Question 6

Fasces

Answer 6

Bundle of sticks and an axe symbolizing power over life and death, symbol of fascism

Question 7

Swastika

Answer 7

Symbol of nazism adopted from Buddhism

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German Workers Party

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Precursor to the Nazi party

Question 9

NSDAP

Answer 9

Nazi party

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Anton Drexler

Answer 10

Founded the nazi party, succeeded by Hitler

Question 11

Mein Kampf

Answer 11

“My struggle” the book Hitler wrote while in jail for forming a coup, describing the ideas of Nazism and how much he hated jewish people

Question 12

Third Reich

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Hitler’s imaginary german empire that would supposedly last for 1000 years

Question 13

Munich/Beer Hall Putsch

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Hitler’s failed coup to overthrow the reichstag which led to his arrest

Question 14

Reichstag

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German parlaiment

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Gestapo

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Nazi police

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SA and SS

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Turbo-nazi officers. SA is brown shirts, the lower ranks who were liquidated due to Hitler’s paranoia. The SS are the elites who were personally chosen as the best Nazis.

Question 17

Hitler youth

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Hitler’s indoctrination after-school club

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Wehmract

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German army

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Luftwaffe

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Nazi air force

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Einsatzgruppen

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SS death squads who personally killed Jewish people in big numbers

Question 21

Lebensraum

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“living room” nazi goal for obtaining more space to live

Question 22

Volk

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German people

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Adolf Hitler

Answer 23

Oh come on. You know this.

Question 24

Joseph Goebbels

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Owned the ministry of public enlightenment (propaganda)

Question 25

Heinrich Himmler

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Head of the SS, chief overseer of of the final solution

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Herman Goering

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Commander of the Luftwaffe

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Adolf Eichmann

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Architect of the Holocaust

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Benito Mussolini

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italy's fascist leader who came to power through force. Wanted to create a rome-style empire by allying with Hitler but got obliterated in the Battle of Italy

Question 29

Brown Shirts

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Another name for the SS

Question 30

Black Shirts

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Mussolini's equivalent of the SS, responsible for keeping Italians in line through force

Question 31

Stab in the back myth

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Nazi myth explaining that Germany lost WWI because the Jewish people betrayed them

Question 32

Appeasement

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Europe didn't interfere with Hitler to avoid a war: annex Sudetenland, the Anschluss, rebuild military, stop reparationsT

Question 33

The Anschluss

Answer 33

Example of Appeasement. Hitler formed a coalition with Austria.

Question 34

Neville Chamberlain

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British Prime Minister who appeased Hitler (following the people's wishes)

Question 35

Winston Churchill

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New British PM who was against appeasement. Stayed as PM for whole of WWII

Question 36

Munich Agreement

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When Hitler annexed the Sudetenland, he agreed not to make any more territorial demands. Spoiler: he made more demands

Question 37

American Isolationism

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America vowed not to get involved in wars that did not personally concern them.

Question 38

Phony War

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8-month period at the beginning of WWII when no actual fighting occured. Hitler took over most of Europe in this time.

Question 39

Non-Agression Pact

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Pact between USSR and Germany to not invade each other or ally with each others' enemies. It was actually a secret plan to divide Europe into Soviet and Nazi spheres of influence.

Question 40

Blitzkrieg

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German military strategy where all forces were focused on one part of enemy lines, basically cutting a deep wound. Very different from trench warfare.

Question 41

Maginot Line

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National embarassment for France who fortified this line across the German-French border, but, like WWI, Germant went through Belgium instead

Question 42

Vichy France

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The Nazis' puppet government in South France

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RAF

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Royal Air Force

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RCAF

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Royal Canadian Air Force

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The Blitz

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Germany bombing during the Battle of Britain

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Pearl Harbour

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Japan attacked a US naval base in Hawaii destroying 12 warships and killing 2000, leading FDR to declare war on Japan and its allies

Question 47

Mouseholing

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Strategy used in WWII in the battle of Italy by Canadians, blowing small holes in walls and throwing bombs through to clear buildings at record speed

Question 48

D-Day

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Successful allied plan to gain a foothold in Europe by attacking Nazi-operated Normandy beaches

Question 49

"The Beaches"

Answer 49

Canada got Juno Beach. US and Britian got two other beaches each. They were attempting