Dictatorships and the Second World War Part 2

Question 1

In Mein Kampf, Hitler claimed that Germans needed more lebensraum. What does that mean?

Accepted Answer

living space

Question 2

Hitler's program based on racial imperialism which gave preferential treatment to Nordic people

Accepted Answer

New Order

Question 3

Who was the president of the United States during World War II?

Accepted Answer

FDR

Question 4

Act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis that gave Hitler dictatorial power for four years

Accepted Answer

Enabling Act

Question 5

Who appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933?

Accepted Answer

President Hindenburg

Question 6

Which Axis Powers leader was overthrown and assassinated?

Accepted Answer

Mussolini

Question 7

A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism, that ruled Germany from 1933-45

Accepted Answer

National Socialism

Question 8

Winston Churchill was one of the Prime Ministers from...

Accepted Answer

Great Britain

Question 9

June 6, 1944 Allied forces invaded ____ to take it back from the Nazis, this was called ___

Accepted Answer

Normandy, France, D-Day

Question 10

Approximately how many soldiers and civilians died due to WWII?

Accepted Answer

50 million

Question 11

Which countries comprised the Axis Powers?

Accepted Answer

Italy, Japan, Germany

Question 12

According to Hitler's New Order which groups were to be considered "subhuman"?

Accepted Answer

Jews and Slavs

Question 13

Who commanded the Allied forces at Normandy, France (D-Day invasion)?

Accepted Answer

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 14

The Grand Alliance consisted of...

Accepted Answer

Britain, U.S., Soviet Union

Question 15

Which two leaders during WWII signed a non-aggression pact with each other?

Accepted Answer

Stalin and Hitler

Question 16

Which battle was the decisive turning point in the clash between the Soviet Union and Germany?

Accepted Answer

Stalingrad

Question 17

How many atomic bombs were dropped on Japan and by which country?

Accepted Answer

2, U.S.

Question 18

Who committed suicide in a Berlin bunker?

Accepted Answer

Hitler

Question 19

In the novel Night, how many Jews were put into each cattle car?

Accepted Answer

80

Question 20

The British and French finally did something to stop Hitler when...

Accepted Answer

he invaded Poland

Question 21

What happened on December 7, 1941?

Accepted Answer

Japan bombed Hawaii

Question 22

Which groups became targets of the Nazis?

Accepted Answer

Gypsies, Jews, homosexuals, Slavs

Question 23

The first atomic bomb was dropped on _____ in _____

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima, 1945

Question 24

Which Asian country shared the same extremist views as Germany?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 25

How were most Jewish prisoners murdered in the camps?

Accepted Answer

poison gas and gas chambers

Question 26

What was expected of women in Nazi Germany?

Accepted Answer

domesticity

Question 27

When Hitler invaded ______, the British did nothing.

Accepted Answer

Czechoslovakia

Question 28

Which Axis Power was the last to surrender?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 29

This began in July 1940 when the Germans sought to gain control of the air

Accepted Answer

Battle of Britain

Question 30

A policy aimed at avoiding war...

Accepted Answer

appeasement

Question 31

July 1943 American plan to force Japan out of conquered territories in the Pacific

Accepted Answer

Island Hopping

Question 32

Plan organized by Nazi leaders that included concentration camps and railroad transport lines

Accepted Answer

Final Solution

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