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1. How can you best define fascism?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Totalitarianism
Militaristic
Anti-Communist
All of the above
2. What was the name of Mussolini’s troops?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Red Shirts
Black Shirts
Brown Shirts
Guardia Civil
3. Which of the following did Mussolini not do?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Called himself Il Duce
Established Press Laws
Invaded Soviet Union
Controlled the press, radio and movies
4. Which of the following did Mussolini not do?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Controlled Libya
Signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin
Invaded Ethiopia
Fought in the Spanish Civil War
5. In the Spanish Civil War, which side did Franco fight on?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Nationalists
Republicans
Democrats
Communists
6. What was Franco’s relationship with Hitler during WW II?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Their armies fought alongside each other on the battle fields
They fought against each other
Franco briefly offered naval facilities to Hitler
What kind of question is this?! WW II never even happened!
7. Which of the following did Franco not do?
A. Created the Guardia Civil, his police force
B. Made all marriages null and void if they took place before his rule
C. Personally signed death warrants
D. Invaded his neighbor Portugal
8. Of all the Dictators we discussed, which of the following will be the only one to be
alive at the end of WW II (1945)?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Hitler
Stalin
Mussolini
None of the above
9. What was a “gulag”?
A.
B.
C.
D.
A place where students go if they are late to Mr. N’s class
A fortress surrounding Moscow
A forced labor camp usually in some isolated place, like Siberia
Stalin’s military academy for future Communists
10. Why were people forced to confess at Stalin’s Show Trials?
A.
B.
C.
D.
They were tortured
They were offered rewards
They were almost always guilty
A&B
11. Which two leaders signed a Non-Aggression Pact in August 1939?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Stalin and Franco
Hitler and Stalin
Mussolini and Franco
Franco and Hitler
12. During Stalin’s Show Trials, it was estimated that 35,000 of this type of people were
arrested or executed?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Religious officials
Military officers
Communists
Capitalists
13. During Stalin’s Five-Year Plans, the goal was to improve what two things?
A. Industry and religion
B. Religion and agriculture
C. Agriculture and industry
D. Military and religion
14. What country was Hitler born in?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Hungary
15. What did Hitler want to do before he became a dictator?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Model
Engineer
Teacher
Artist
16. What does Mein Kampf mean?
A.
B.
C.
D.
My freedom
My struggle
My story
My care bear
17. Mein Kampf said all of the following except which one?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Hitler accepts responsibility for losing WW I
Aryan race is superior
Jews are inferior and are to blame for everything
Soviet Union must be destroyed
18. What title did Hitler become in 1933 (Hindenburg appointed him this)?
A.
B.
C.
D.
President
Dictator
Chancellor
Prime Minister
19. Which of the following was not one of Hitler’s positive policies?
A. Helped bring Germany out of the Great Depression
B. Constructed roads, railways and the autobahn
C. Allowed religious freedom
D. Constructed new buildings and hosted the 1936 Olympics
20. What title does Hitler adopt?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Il Duce
Fuhrer
Generalisimo
His holiness
21. Which document made Jews 2nd class citizens in 1935?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Magna Carta
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Sevres
Nuremberg Laws
22. Nazi Germany was the 3rd Reich. What was the 1st Reich?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Weimar Republic
Holy Roman Empire
German Confederation
Prussia
23. Did Hitler ever shake Jesse Owen’s hand to congratulate him?
A. Yes
B. No
24. How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?
A.
B.
C.
D.
100,000
2 million
6 million
20 million
25. What country was Auschwitz in?
A. Poland
B. Austria
C. Sweden
D. Hungary
26. Which individual performed medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz?
A. Josef Mengele
B. Alois Brunner
C. Heinrich Himmler
D. Herman Goering
27. According to Rudolf Hess, Auschwitz could exterminate how many people in a day?
A.
B.
C.
D.
2,500
10,000
50,000
1,000,000
28. Adolf Eichmann took an active role in killing Jews in what European country?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Romania
Poland
Lithuania
Hungary
29. After WWII, Alois Brunner was believed to be hiding in what country?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Spain
Germany
Syria
Egypt
30. What was the term for the murder of all of Europe’s Jews?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Anschluss
Mein Kampf
Final Struggle
Final Solution
Place the following events in order #1 should be the event that took place first (5 pts)
31. ___ Hitler becomes chancellor
A. 1
32. ___ Stalin becomes General Secretary
B. 2
33. ___ Mussolini conquers Ethiopia
C. 3
34. ___ Hitler and Stalin sign Non-Aggression Pact
D. 4
35. ___ World War II begins
E. 5
1. How long was the front where the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union?
A.
B.
C.
D.
10 miles
100 miles
1000 miles
10,000 miles
2. What Soviet city had to deal with a 900 day siege?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Leningrad
Kiev
Kursk
Rostov
3. What did Stalin’s Order 227 say?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Move all industry to the east (toward Siberia)
Make peace with Germany
Any kind of retreat can result in military tribunal
Universal draft
4. Why was the battle of Stalingrad so important?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Germany wins
Soviets will go on the offensive
Soviets want peace
United States finally joins the war
5. Stalingrad is directly next to what river?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Danube
Volga
Rhine
Thames
6. What was the name of Germany’s coastal defenses against an Allied invasion?
A. Atlantic Wall
B. Maginot Line
C. Gothic Line
D. Barbarossa
7. D-Day took place in what year?
A.
B.
C.
D.
1942
1943
1944
1945
8. Where do the Germans think the real D-Day landing will take place?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Normandy
Dieppe
Cherbourg
Calais
9. Which of the following was not a zone at the D-Day landings?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Juno Beach
Gold Beach
Utah Beach
Silver Beach
10. What was Operation Dragoon?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Invasion of North Africa
Invasion of Italy
Invasion of southern France
Invasion of Belgium
11. What city is liberated August 25th, 1944?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Brussels
Paris
Rome
Stalingrad
12. Who began the Battle of the Bulge?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Americans
British
Soviets
Germans
13. Who led Operation Overlord?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Omar Bradley
Dwight Eisenhower
Bernard Montgomery
Charles De Gaulle
14. At what city did Hitler aim his V1 and V2 rockets?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Antwerp
Berlin
Paris
London
15. What kind of people would work on Hitler’s V1 and V2 rockets?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Soviet prisoners of war
Prisoners from Nazi-occupied territories
German civilians
Hitler himself
16. Where do the Allies meet February 4th, 1945 to discuss post-World War II Europe?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Yalta
Potsdam
Tehran
Paris
17. Before November 20th, 1944, where was Hitler’s headquarters (moves west Nov.
20th)?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Berlin
Munich
Rastenburg
Warsaw
18. What forces enter and capture Berlin first?
A.
B.
C.
D.
American
French
Soviet
British
19. What ultimately happens to Hitler?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Captured by the Soviet Red Army and hung
Put on trial for Crimes Against Humanity at Nuremberg
Surrenders to American forces
Commits suicide allow with his wife, Eva
20. Who signs the surrender for all German forces on May 7th, 1945?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Alfred Jodl
Hermann Goring
Adolf Eichmann
Heinrich Himmler
21. What “War” will take placed soon after World War II (last until late 1980’s)?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Vietnam War
Cold War
Korean War
Iraq War
22. Which of the following was not one of the crimes at Nuremberg?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Conspiracy
Crimes Against Peace
Treason
Crimes Against Humanity
23. What crime contains the following: “Defendant is accused of planning and waging
wars of aggression in violation of international treaties”?
A.
B.
C.
D.
War Crimes
Crimes Against Peace
Conspiracy
Crimes Against Humanity
24. True or false: No one was acquitted (found innocent) at Nuremberg trials.
A. True
B. False
25. How many Jews died in the Holocaust?
A.
B.
C.
D.
2 million
4 million
6 million
8 million
26. Which of the following group was also persecuted by Hitler?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Disabled
Political prisoners
Soviet POW’s
All of the above
27. Which of the following was an experiment conducted during the Holocaust?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Hypothermia experiments
Malaria experiments
Sterilizing experiments
All of the above
28. What was the name of the biggest death camp?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Auschwitz
Bergen Belsen
Dachau
Treblinka
29. Where was Auschwitz?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Austria
Poland
France
Germany
30. What happened in Warsaw April 1943?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Auschwitz is created
750 Jews lead a rebellion against the Nazis
Soviets liberate Warsaw
Allied leaders meet to discuss post World War II plans
31. What country will be created in 1948 and will be a homeland to many Jews?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Lebanon
Syria
Iraq
Israel
32. What fraction of Europe’s Jews did Hitler kill?
A.
B.
C.
D.
1/3
¼
½
¾
33. How long is World War II?
A.
B.
C.
D.
4 years
6 years
8 years
10 years
34. Where does Hitler have the surrender with France signed in 1940?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Versailles
A railroad car where Germany surrendered in WW I
Verdun
Hitler’s headquarters
35. What was the name given to the bombing of London by the Nazis in 1940?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg
Stuka
Blitz
36. What waterway separates England and France?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Baltic Sea
Mediterranean Sea
English Channel
Bay of Biscay
37. What kind of geographic feature is the Ardennes?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sea
Mountains
Desert
Forest
38. Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of what country?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Germany
Poland
Soviet Union
France
39. What country was not directly involved with the D-Day landings?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Soviet Union
United States
Canada
England
40. True or false. Germany successfully created and tested a nuclear weapon.
A. True
B. False
41. Who were the “big three” at Yalta?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Churchill, De Gaulle, Roosevelt
Stalin, Chamberlain, De Gaulle
Roosevelt, Churchill, Atlee
Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
42. What do the following men have in common: Hans Fritzsche, Franz von Papen, and
Hjalmar Schacht?
A.
B.
C.
D.
All executed
All acquitted
All imprisoned
All French generals
43. What was decided at Wannsee in 1942?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Final Solution
Plans for D-Day invasion
Hitler writes his will
Plans for the invasion of Italy
44. Where was there a “trial landing” before D-Day?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Dieppe
Calais
London
Antwerp
45. What Asian country was fighting with Germany during WW II (they were Allies)?
A.
B.
C.
D.
China
Philippines
Japan
Thailand
Place the following events in order. #1 should be the event that happened first, #5 should
be the event that happened last.
46. ____ Germany invades Soviet Union
A. 1
47. ____ France is defeated
B. 2
48. ____ Germany surrenders
C. 3
49. ____ D-Day landings
D. 4
50. ____ Germany and Soviets sign Non-Aggression Pact
E. 5
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. C
7. D
8. B
9. C
10. D
11. B
12. B
13. C
14. B
15. D
16. B
17. A
18. C
19. C
20. B
21. D
22. B
23. B
24. C
25. A
26. A
27. B
28. D
29. C
30. D
31. 2
32. 1
33. 3
34. 4
35. 5
1. C
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. D
9. D
10. C
11. B
12. D
13. B
14. D
15. B
16. A
17. C
18. C
19. D
20. A
21. B
22. C
23. B
24. B
25. C
26. D
27. D
28. A
29. B
30. B
31. D
32. C
33. B
34. B
35. D
36. C
37. D
38. C
39. A
40. B
41. D
42. B
43. A
44. A
45. C
46. C
47. B
48. E
49. D
50. A