WWII

Question 0

Economic effects of WWII

Answer 0

Total cost of war - $350 billion

- paying for war meant high taxes and lower standard of living

Question 1

Social effects of WWII

Answer 1

10 million soldiers killed and 20 million wounded.

Millions of civilians died at war, famine, and disease (6.8 million)

World left with hatred

Question 2

Political effects of WWII

Answer 2

The U.S became a world power

Question 3

Which nations became a dictatorship?

Answer 3

Russia, Italy and Germany

Question 4

Which new nations arose?

Answer 4

Poland and Czechoslovakia

Question 5

Which three major nations lost their monarch?

Answer 5

Austria, Prussia and Russia

Question 6

Fascism is on which part of the political spectrum?

Answer 6

The right, where they want things to go to the past

Question 7

Which part is communism in the political spectrum?

Answer 7

The left, where they want a new future

Question 8

What is communism?

Answer 8

The totalitarian way of industrializing a backward society

Question 9

What is fascism?

Answer 9

The totalitarian way of solving conflicts within an individually more advance society

Question 10

Who organized the fascist movement in Italy?

Answer 10

Benito Mussolini

Question 11

What is the famous quote Benito Mussolini said?

Answer 11

“The people are nothing, the state is everything.”

Question 12

What was fascism against?

Answer 12

Democracy and communism

Question 13

What was fascism for?

Answer 13

Dictatorship and extreme nationalism.

Question 14

How do fascist rise?

Answer 14

Through economic issues

Question 15

How did fascism rise in Italy?

Answer 15

People in Italy were poor

High inflation

Heavy taxes

Widespread unemployment

The rich feared communism

Question 16

What was Mussolini’s military group called?

Answer 16

Black shirts

Question 17

When did Mussolini seize control over the Italian government?

Answer 17

In 1922

Question 18

What were the black shirt’s slogan?

Answer 18

“Believe, fight, obey.”

Question 19

The German kaiser fled to which country? (William II)

Answer 19

Belgium

Question 20

What government did Germany establish?

Answer 20

A democratic government

Question 21

What was the democratic German government called?

Answer 21

The Weimar Republic

Question 22

What did the Weimar Republic have?

Answer 22

A weak president

Bi-cameral legislative called the Reichstag

A chancellor (prime minister)

Question 23

How long did the the Weimar government last?

Answer 23

From 1919-1933

Question 24

What was the bi-cameral legislative of Germany called?

Answer 24

The Reichstag

Question 25

What did Adolf Hitler form?

Answer 25

The national socialist worker party or nazi party

Question 26

How did the nazi's come to power?

Answer 26

Germany had an economy with a lot of inflation 6 million Germans were out of work Fear of communism They hated the Treaty of Versailles - wanted colonies back - wanted to rearm - claimed Germans had been "stabbed in the back" - thought they were the master race The Weimar republic had too many political parties

Question 27

How many Germans were out of work in 1932?

Answer 27

6 million

Question 28

True or false: | Communists and nazi's had less votes than political parties in the middle?

Answer 28

False: they had more

Question 29

What was the name of the book Adolf Hitler wrote and what was it about?

Answer 29

"Meinkampf" - he outlined his ideas for Germany

Question 30

What was the name Hitler's army was called?

Answer 30

Storm troopers - used to control people

Question 31

What did Hitler try to do in 1923?

Answer 31

Overthrow the government

Question 32

What happened first: Nazi's gain power or Hitler becomes dictator of Germany

Answer 32

Nazi's gain power first in 1929 and Hitler becomes dictator in 1933

Question 33

What was the Gestapo?

Answer 33

Secret police under Hermich Himmler

Question 34

What was Hitler's foreign policy?

Answer 34

1933 - Hitler takes Germany out of League of Nations 1935 - Saar valley goes back to Germany 1936 - re-arms the Rhineland The allies refuse to act

Question 35

Put these in order Claims atrocities against Germans Form a nazi party Create a crisis Demand a German solution

Answer 35

1. ) Form a Nazi party 2. ) Claim atrocities against Germans 3. ) Create a crisis 4. ) Demand a German solution Then: Germany mobilizes

Question 36

True or false: the treaty of Versailles forbade the union of Germany and Austria

Answer 36

True

Question 37

What did the annexation of Austria mean?

Answer 37

A common border with Italy Encircle the Czech Republic Hitler claims Czechoslovakia is a "dagger armed at the heart of Germany"

Question 38

What was the Western Rimis called?

Answer 38

Sudetenland

Question 39

Who did Czechoslovakia ask for help?

Answer 39

France and England (they didn't help)

Question 40

When did the Munich conference occur and who represented who?

Answer 40

September 1938 Neville Chamberlain - England Adolf Hitler - Germany Benito Mussolini - Italy

Question 41

What did Hitler want at the Munich conference?

Answer 41

Only the Sudetenland (he took the rest of Czechoslovakia in 6 months)

Question 42

What policy did the Allies give to Hitler?

Answer 42

The policy of appeasement

Question 43

Put in order the countries Hitler took over: Czechoslovakia Austria Poland

Answer 43

1. ) Austria 2. ) Czechoslovakia 3. ) Poland

Question 44

What did hitler want in Poland?

Answer 44

A corridor through the Polish corridor

Question 45

What kind of war did Hitler use on Poland?

Answer 45

A blitzkrieg

Question 46

How many days did Poland fall after Hitler's blitzkrieg?

Answer 46

Three days

Question 47

What countries did the Nazi army overrun and who lead it?

Answer 47

Denmark and Norway led by Vidken Quising

Question 48

How did the Nazi conquer France?

Answer 48

By invading flat plains of Belgium

Question 49

Where did the Nazi's push the allied armies to?

Answer 49

Dunkirk on the Atlantic Ocean - allies pick their troops from beached back to England

Question 50

What was the Battle of Britain?

Answer 50

German Luftwaffe attacked England by Royal Air Force fought back

Question 51

Why did Germany attack Russia?

Answer 51

For farmland and oil

Question 52

Where in Russia did the Nazi's attack?

Answer 52

Moscow and Leningrad

Question 53

How did Russia respond to Germany attacking them?

Answer 53

Scorched earth tactics

Question 54

What was Hitler's new order?

Answer 54

Europe would be a single nation run by Berlin Russian slaves would feed Europe

Question 55

What was the Battle of Stalingrad? (Turning point)

Answer 55

Lasted six months - Hitler ordered troops to "fight to the death" - German surrenders

Question 56

What was the attack Japan had on the U.S?

Answer 56

Pearl Harbor

Question 57

When the allies invaded France from Britain, what was this called?

Answer 57

Operation Overload or D-Day

Question 58

What was the Battle of the Bulge?

Answer 58

Hitler drives a wedge into Belgium but is defeated

Question 59

What is V-E Day?

Answer 59

Victory in Europe

Question 60

Dunkirk was the scene of what?

Answer 60

The rescue of 300,000 French and British troops.

Question 61

Hitler tried to defeat Britain by what?

Answer 61

Bombing British industrial centers and non strategic centers

Question 62

When WWII broke out the United States what?

Answer 62

Declared its neutrality

Question 63

During WWII the allied invasion of France on D-Day was significant because it what?

Answer 63

Forced Germans to fight a two-front war