US 2: Unit 2- QUIZ

Who gained popular support through meetings and speeches when he expounded upon their slogan, “Peace, Land & Bread"?

TRUE or FALSE: Mr. Lansing was a recurring guest star on HBO's former hit series "The Sopranos"?

Which US program allowed assistance to Britain by selling war munitions & goods for cash on their own ships?

To many Western Europeans, _____ Hitler seemed to be the best way to avoid repeating the horrors of World War I.

What is the historical term given for the imaginary line to which Hitler remained defensively behind in Europe?

Japanese soldiers massacred 100,000+ civilians in ___, which is remembered as one of the great atrocities of 20th Cent.

Adolf Hitler created a Ministry of Public Enlightenment and ___ to shape German public opinion and behavior

December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack against ___, America's principal naval base in the Pacific

Once in power, who slowly and cautiously turned Italy into a totalitarian state?

Which President decided to use the atomic bomb to force Japan to capitulate?

On Nov. 9–10, 1938, Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms (violent attacks) against the Jewish population known as?

What was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime known as?

On September 1, 1939, German forces invaded Poland, with these two countries declaring war to officially start WW2?

The Munich Agreement permitted the German annexation of which section of Czechoslovakia?

Which armed forces surrendered on May 7, and Victory was declared in Europe?

Which British Prime Minister claimed to have achieved "peace in our time" in 1938-1939?

Form of gov't that permits no indiv. freedom & seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual’s life to gov't authority

Over 127,000 US citizens were imprisoned during WW2 for being suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land of?

Leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party who attempted to overthrow the gov't in a botched 1923 revolution

In July 1936, who launched a military revolt against the Spanish government that soon led to civil war?

The Nazi Party promoted a particularly virulent form of racial ___ central to the party’s race-based worldview.

On August 6, 1945, an American bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of ___.

Which of the following is ONE component of the Potsdam Agreement?

Form of government in which 1 person or a small group possesses absolute power w/o effective constitutional limitations.

Holocaust victims were subject to industrial work, starvation, medical experiments, & extermination once they arrived at

Hitler was able to exploit varying worldwide events, and in 1933 he legitimately gained power to become _____?