WWII

Question 1

What is known as a desire to be free from absolute standards and morals

Answer 1

modern liberalism

Question 2

Which ideology attempts to preserve established traditions/institutions and opposes changes

Answer 2

modern conservatism

Question 3

What is the most powerful conservative force?

Answer 3

the Bible ✨

Question 4

What was est. in Yalta to replace the League of Nations in WWII?

Answer 4

UN (United Nations)

Question 5

What is the slaughtering of over 6 million Jews by the Germans known as?

Answer 5

the Holocaust

Question 6

What were the most well-known concentration camps?

Answer 6

Treblinka, Dachau, Buchenwald , and Auschwitz

Question 7

What were the places large amounts of the Jews were sent during the Holocaust and were tortured, overworked, or put to death?

Answer 7

concentration camps

Question 8

When was V-J Day (Victory in Japan Day)?

Answer 8

Sept. 2, 1945

Question 9

When was V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day)?

Answer 9

May 8, 1945

Question 10

Where did the atomic bombs in Japan drop?

Answer 10

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 11

What were the Japanese suicide dive-bomb suicide planes called?

Answer 11

kamikazes

Question 12

What was one of the greatest naval battles in history in which the Japanese lost almost all their remaining ships and planes?

Answer 12

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Question 13

What was the first naval battle in history in which the opposing vessels did not sight one another?

Answer 13

Battle of Coral Sea

Question 14

In which battle did the U.S. Navy broke the back of the Japanese fleet?

Answer 14

Battle of Midway

Question 15

What was the Allies strategy whereby only the most important islands would be assaulted in order to establish air and naval bases for the drive to Japan?

Answer 15

island hopping

Question 16

What was the largest project of its time in WWII?

Answer 16

Manhattan Project (atomic bomb)

Question 17

What was the bombing raid over Tokyo and other Japanese cities and who led it?

Answer 17

the Doolittle Raid and Colonel Jimmy Doolittle

Question 18

What was the march in which the Japanese forced the captive American soldiers to walk 70 mi. to the prison camp?

Answer 18

Bataan Death March

Question 19

Who led the Allies in the Philippines and stated “I shall return” when forced to retreat?

Answer 19

General Douglas MacArthur

Question 20

What was the Nazi’s last great offensive in the West?

Answer 20

Battle of the Bulge

Question 21

When was D-Day?

Answer 21

June 6, 1944

Question 22

What was the largest amphibious (seaborne) assault in history?

Answer 22

Battle of Normandy

Question 23

What was the invasion of Vichy French NW Africa?

Answer 23

Operation Torch

Question 24

What attack initiated the US to enter WWII?

Answer 24

Pearl Harbor

Question 25

When was the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 25

December 7, 1941

Question 26

What act granted the President sweeping powers to sell, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of war materials to any nation whose defense he felt to be vital to American security

Answer 26

Lend-Lease Act

Question 27

When was the turning point of the war?

Answer 27

1941

Question 28

Who was the leader of the Afrika Korps?

Answer 28

Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox)

Question 29

Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain for most of WWII?

Answer 29

Winston Churchill

Question 30

In which battle did the RAF save the British and French troops on a port off the English Channel?

Answer 30

Battle of Dunkirk

Question 31

Who was was installed as the head of the Nazi puppet government in Norwegia?

Answer 31

Vidkin Quisling

Question 32

What began WWII?

Answer 32

the invasion of Poland

Question 33

When did Germany invade Poland?

Answer 33

Sept. 3, 1939

Question 34

What is either giving in to the demands of aggressor nations or taking no action when the aggressors attacked weaker countries?

Answer 34

appeasement

Question 35

In what agreement was Sudetenland "given" to Germany?

Answer 35

the Munich Pact

Question 36

Who was the leader of the Chinese Nationalist govt?

Answer 36

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 37

Who was the militaristic leader in Japan during WWII?

Answer 37

Hideki Tojo

Question 38

What was Hitler's govt called?

Answer 38

the Third Reich

Question 39

Who was the leader of Germany in WWII?

Answer 39

Hitler

Question 40

Who was the leader of socialist Italy in WWII?

Answer 40

Benito Mussolini

Question 41

Who was the Communist leader of Russia in WWII?

Answer 41

Joseph Stalin

Question 42

What is a form of socialism that is similar to Communism; it exercises totalitarian control of political, economic, cultural, religious, and social activities, and it follows Darwinian ideas in its attempts to change society and bring in a new social order?

Answer 42

Fascism

Question 43

Germany's fast, heavy assault by tanks and air power mainly against Poland and Britain

Answer 43

blitzkrieg

Question 44

Who formulated a system known as psychoanalysis?

Answer 44

Sigmund Freud

Question 45

What says that subconscious physical drives or irrational fears determine a man’s actions?

Answer 45

Psychoanalysis

Question 46

Who developed behavioural psychology?

Answer 46

Ivan Pavlov

Question 47

Who based his ideas on his declaration that “God is dead" and the only absolute was the "will to power"?

Answer 47

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 48

Who taught that all man can do is take a “leap of faith” into the darkness of the “great unknown” in hope of achieving some kind of reality?

Answer 48

Soren Kierkegaard

Question 49

What is the philosophy that an idea or an action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or Scriptural considerations?

Answer 49

pragmatism

Question 50

What rejected biblical doctrines regarding a literal heaven and hell, man’s sinful nature, and salvation by faith in Jesus Christ?

Answer 50

modernism

Question 51

What was the message of the modernists called?

Answer 51

the Social Gospel

Question 52

What applied liberal philosophies to education and abandoned the teaching of moral absolutes and encouraged a permissive atmosphere in the classroom?

Answer 52

progressive education

Question 53

Christians who remained faithful to God’s Word and stood against modernism

Answer 53

Fundamentalists

Question 54

Who was the English evangelist who became one of the most famous revival preachers in the world?

Answer 54

Gipsy Smith

Question 55

Who is known for writing My Utmost to the Highest and supervised a YMCA camp during World War I for soldiers stationed in Egypt?

Answer 55

Oswald Chambers

Question 56

Who was the famous converted baseball star to preacher?

Answer 56

Billy Sunday

Question 57

Which Spanish painter emphasized random geometric forms and perspectives in their works, hoping to create a new “reality” in the viewer’s mind?

Answer 57

Pablo Picasso

Question 58

Who praised Stalin and overlooked his brutality in his works?

Answer 58

H.G. Wells

Question 59

Which Socialist writer and philosopher wrote several books and tracts that charged America’s industries with being “oppressors” of common workers?

Answer 59

Upton Sinclair

Question 60

Who was one of the best-known conservative writers, known for The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, Perelandra?

Answer 60

C.S. Lewis

Question 61

Who wrote Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit and taught people to long for goodness and hope in life?

Answer 61

J.R.R. Tolkien

Question 62

Who was President of the US during the end of WWII?

Answer 62

Harry S. Truman

Question 63

Who wrote Shall the Fundamentalists Win??

Answer 63

Harry Fosdick

Question 64

Who is widely known as the founder of modern Conservatism?

Answer 64

Edmund Burke

Question 65

Where were the atomic bombs dropped?

Answer 65

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 66

What is a form of socialism that relies on terrorist aggression, fanatical racism, and anti-democratic nationalism?

Answer 66

Nazism

Question 67

What ended WWII?

Answer 67

atomic boomsb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 68

Which form of socialism advocates the violent overthrow of existing governments with the goal of changing society and ultimately perfecting mankind?

Answer 68

Communism

Question 69

Which countries were the Axis Powers?

Answer 69

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 70

Which countries were Allies?

Answer 70

England, France, US

Question 71

Which philosophy states that an idea or an action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or Scriptural standards?

Answer 71

pragmatism

Question 72

What economic disaster ended the Roaring Twenties with the crash of the stock market on Black Tuesday?

Answer 72

the Great Depression

Question 73

What place did Japan invade and seize from China, starting pre-war aggression?

Answer 73

Manchuria

Question 74

In which war did the Communists use as a "test trial"; testing out tactics and weapons for war?

Answer 74

Spanish Civil War