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Test: Wednesday, April 5th
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World WAR II
I.
Questions
1. World War II dates:
• When did it begin? 1939
• When did it end? 1945
• When did the US enter? 1941
2. Name the Axis powers in 1944.
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
3. Name the Allied powers in 1944.
• France
• Great Britain
• USSR
• United States
4. List reasons for the rise of Hitler.
Weaknesses of the Weimar Republic, German nationalism, fear of communism
5. What event started WWII?
Invasion of Poland
6. Under whose leadership did Nazi beliefs become state policy and law?
Hitler
7. List 3 European nations that established totalitarian governments during the interwar years.
Germany, Italy, Russia
8. Explain how the 1930s depression in Germany contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party.
Economic hardships increased instability
9. Who was the leader of Fascist Italy?
Benito Mussolini
10. List reasons why fascist governments developed between WWI and WWII in Italy, Germany and
the USSR.
Governments did not meet the needs of people, high unemployment, severe inflation, fear of
communism
11. List signs of a totalitarian government
Loss of freedoms, censorship
12. List signs of fascist ideology
use of violence and terror, censorship of news and government, extreme nationalism, blind
loyalty to leader
13. Why are the Nuremberg Trials considered an important event in the 20th century?
Established principles of responsibility for human rights violations.
14. What was the significance of the Berlin Wall?
Keep East Germans from fleeing to the Western sector of Berlin
15. What were the 2 events that marked the end of the Cold War?
Fall of the Berlin Wall and breakup of the Soviet Union
16. What policy did the United States follow when dealing with Greece and Turkey after WWII?
Containment
17. What was the Truman Doctrine? The Marshall Plan? The Berlin air-lift? What was their purpose?
• Truman Doctrine: giving 400 million dollars to Greece and Turkey to prevent them
from going under control of the USSR
• Marshall Plan: American response to poverty and hardship in post-war Europe
• Berlin air-lift: air-lift initiated by America used to deliver food and goods to West Berlin
when it was closed off by communists
18. Who emerged as super powers after WWII? How?
United States and USSR
19. During WWII, who did Hitler betray and what did this cause?
Hitler betrayed Stalin which caused a turning point in the war.
20. When did most the French and British colonies gain independence?
After WWII
21. What treaty did Hitler violate when he militarized the Rhineland?
Treaty of Versailles
22. How many people (most commonly estimated) from the Jewish population are thought to have
died in the Holocaust?
6 million
23. How is the Holocaust described? If you could choose one term, what would the best term be?
mass slaughter of people, many Jewish; people’s rights taken away; genocide
24. Who was targeted by the Nazi campaign?
Jews, Gypsies, Poles, African-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, disabled,
homosexuals
25. Describe German Jewish families in the 1920s.
well-established
26. When Germany separated, who controlled East Germany?
Soviet Union
II. Definitions
Appeasement: satisfying demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability
Marshall Plan: proved funds for economic recovery in war-torn Europe
NATO: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) was initially formed to defend Western Europe from Soviet
aggression
Iron Curtain: Western boundary of Soviet domination in Europe during the Cold War
Containment: Preventing of the spread of communism
Luftwaffe: German air force
Blitz: attempt to bomb Britain into submission
Blitzkrieg: lightning warfare
Operation Barbarossa: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Auschwitz: largest death camp of WWII
Holocaust: the mass slaughter and reckless destruction of life
Aryans: master race
Battle of Britain: strategic bombing campaign of British cities by Germany
United Nations: formed after WWII as an international peace keeping organization
III. Pictures/Graphs
This World War II cartoon is showing the relationship between
climate and the ?????
Inability of Nazi forces to defeat the Soviet Union
The area east of the bold boundary included members of
what alliance?
Warsaw Pact
What does this 1989 photograph symbolize?
The end of the Cold War
Use of
violence and
terror
Censorship and
Government of
news
Which ideology best completes
this graphic organizer?
Fascism
Blind loyalty
to leader
Extreme
Nationalism
The main idea of this 1941 cartoon is that Japan,
Italy, and Germany were committed to ????
aggression
Based on the information in this chart, what
situation gave rise to Nazi power in Germany?
political and economic instability