World War II Leaders

Question 1

Joseph Stalin

Answer 1

Soviet Union- totalitarian communist dictator

Question 2

Francisco Franco

Answer 2

Spain- militarism and fascism

Question 3

Adolf hitler

Answer 3

Germany- nazism
Racial purification
National expansion

Question 4

Benito Mussolini

Answer 4

Italy- facist dictator

totalitarian regime

Question 5

Neville chamberlain

Answer 5

British prime minister signed Munich agreement with hitler

Question 6

Winston Churchill

Answer 6

Chamberlain’s political rival that felt chamberlain adopted the policy if appeasement

Question 7

Totalitarian

Answer 7

Govt. that tried to exert complete control over citizens by giving them no rights and suppressing oppression

Question 8

Nazism

Answer 8

German fascism based on extreme nationalism

Question 9

Fascism

Answer 9

Stressed nationalism and the interests if the state over those of individuals

Question 10

Nonaggression pact

Answer 10

NOT an alliance
Secret one between Soviet Union and hitler
Also one between Poland and Germany

Question 11

Blitzkrieg

Answer 11

Lightning war- Germany’s military strategy of surprise attacks that crushed opposition

Question 12

RAF

Answer 12

Britains Royal Air Force

Fought against German planes using radar

Question 13

Weimar Republic

Answer 13

Germany’s democratic govt. that hitler replaced with the Third Reich

Question 14

Isolationism

Answer 14

US’s foreign policy that Roosevelt changed some

Question 15

Puppet govt.

Answer 15

Nazi controlled govt. led by Marshall Philippe petain in southern France

Question 16

Allied territories

Answer 16

France
Great Britain
Soviet union

Question 17

Axis powers

Answer 17

Albania
East Prussia
Germany
Italy

Question 18

Neutral countries

Answer 18

Ireland. Portugal.
Spain. Sweden.
Switzerland.
Turkey

Question 19

Axis controlled powers

Answer 19

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia

Question 20

Causes for WWII

Answer 20

Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt Cause
Land-Rhineland
De-militarize Army

Question 21

Treaty Of Versailles

Answer 21

land issue (Rhineland), Germany had to pay reparations for war, Germany had to de-militarize, stopped factories from making weapons

Question 22

War Guilt Cause

Answer 22

resentment in Germany for taking blame for an entire war

had to pay reparations = $33 billion to France and GB

Question 23

Rhineland

Answer 23

land was taken away= no more factories= no more products- had to give land back to france and land to east to Poland
land for Jews

Question 24

De-militarize Army

Answer 24

reduce army to only 100,000 men

no more planes tanks or submarines or weapons = no defense

Question 25

Depression (1920s-1930s)

Answer 25

affected everyone in the world
6 million unemployed in 1930s
rise of totalatarian dictatorship
league of nations (mussolini invaded Egypt and Germany invaded countries and league of nations)

Question 26

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 26

Soviet Union- Bolsheviks and Russian Revolution Karl Marx Joseph Stalin

Question 27

Weimar Republic

Answer 27

Germany- Hitler (Der Furher)- The Third Reich

Question 28

Third Reich

Answer 28

first German empire=800AD-1806-Charlamagne (first holy Roman empire)
Holy roman Empire-German Austria
2nd german empire 1871-1918

Question 29

Adolf Hitler

Answer 29

Austrian fought for Germany

Question 30

Mein Kampt

Answer 30

Hitler’s book almost like journal wrote about Germans needing living space and Jews and their place

Question 31

Hitler’s plans

Answer 31

wanted to restore germany and remove those inferior or undesirable (Jewish, Slavs, Homoexuals, mentally handicapped, Gypsies, communists)

Question 32

Japan

Answer 32

Emperor Hirohito
General Tojo
Admiral Yamamoto