Practice Exam
1. What is Anschluss?
(The annexation of Austria into Germany)
2. What three countries were allied in the Axis Powers?
(Germany, Italy, and Japan)
3. What happened on December 7th, 1941?
(The bombing of Pearl Harbor)
4. What is V-E day?
(The day that the Allies won the European part of the war.)
5.What year did the Wannsee conference take place? What was the Wannsee conference?
(1942, when 15 important German Nazi's and Government delegates met to discuss pursuing the "Final Solution".)
6. Who was Charles De Gaulle?
(French general who set up government-in-exile, fled to London, an focused on reconquering France)
7. Who is the referred to as the "Desert Fox" because he was the German Field Marshall in charge of the North African campaign?
(Rommel)
8. What does lebensraum mean?
(Living space, referring to Nazis and their cry for more space to live and to expand farms to increase the German population)
9. Who were the S.S?
(Hitler's elite security force)
10. When did Hitler come to power? What motivated people to like Hitler?
(1933, )
11. Why did the U.S. become involved in World War II?
(They wanted revenge on the bombing of Pearl Harbor so they attacked Japan.)
12. What were major consequences of World War II?
(Major casualties, Japan can't have an army, and new territory lines.)
13. What was the battle of Midway and why was it a major turning point?
(The battle of Midway was the American attack on Japanese islands. The Japanese were not expecting the Americans to know their plan so they went on with their original plan and the Americans attacked by plane. This now put the Americans in the lead.)
14. Who were fascist leaders and which side where they on (axis or allied)?
(Mussolini and Hitler were on the axis powers.)
15. Which three cities were destroyed or affected by atomic bombs in Japan?
(Hiroshima Tokyo Nagasaki)
16. How did Hitler die in World War II?
(He and his wife committed suicide he shot himself and she used poison.)
17. What's was the largest concentration camp?
(Auschwitz)
18. What groups were considered "subhuman"?
(Jews, gypsies, disabled people, and homosexuals.)
19. How many Jews did Hitler kill? How many people overall?
(6,000,000 jews, 15 to 17,000,000)
20. Where did blitzkrieg first take place? What does it mean?
(It took place in Britain and it translates to lightning war.)
(The annexation of Austria into Germany)
2. What three countries were allied in the Axis Powers?
(Germany, Italy, and Japan)
3. What happened on December 7th, 1941?
(The bombing of Pearl Harbor)
4. What is V-E day?
(The day that the Allies won the European part of the war.)
5.What year did the Wannsee conference take place? What was the Wannsee conference?
(1942, when 15 important German Nazi's and Government delegates met to discuss pursuing the "Final Solution".)
6. Who was Charles De Gaulle?
(French general who set up government-in-exile, fled to London, an focused on reconquering France)
7. Who is the referred to as the "Desert Fox" because he was the German Field Marshall in charge of the North African campaign?
(Rommel)
8. What does lebensraum mean?
(Living space, referring to Nazis and their cry for more space to live and to expand farms to increase the German population)
9. Who were the S.S?
(Hitler's elite security force)
10. When did Hitler come to power? What motivated people to like Hitler?
(1933, )
11. Why did the U.S. become involved in World War II?
(They wanted revenge on the bombing of Pearl Harbor so they attacked Japan.)
12. What were major consequences of World War II?
(Major casualties, Japan can't have an army, and new territory lines.)
13. What was the battle of Midway and why was it a major turning point?
(The battle of Midway was the American attack on Japanese islands. The Japanese were not expecting the Americans to know their plan so they went on with their original plan and the Americans attacked by plane. This now put the Americans in the lead.)
14. Who were fascist leaders and which side where they on (axis or allied)?
(Mussolini and Hitler were on the axis powers.)
15. Which three cities were destroyed or affected by atomic bombs in Japan?
(Hiroshima Tokyo Nagasaki)
16. How did Hitler die in World War II?
(He and his wife committed suicide he shot himself and she used poison.)
17. What's was the largest concentration camp?
(Auschwitz)
18. What groups were considered "subhuman"?
(Jews, gypsies, disabled people, and homosexuals.)
19. How many Jews did Hitler kill? How many people overall?
(6,000,000 jews, 15 to 17,000,000)
20. Where did blitzkrieg first take place? What does it mean?
(It took place in Britain and it translates to lightning war.)