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CLEP Western Civilization: WW II
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Answer 43 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Those who left Franch and wanted to fight the Nazis later. Charles de Gaulle led them.
Free French
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
partisans
1945
2. May 7 - 1945 when Germany surrender.
V-E Day
Chamberlain
D-Day
Postdam
3. Battle in 1943 where Germans lost 300 tanks.
Kursk
Battle of Britain
Postdam
V-E Day
4. Mussolin used this to get more power. He made Catholicism Italy's official religion - did not tax the church - and gave it power over the Vatican - and gave the church power over marraige. In agreement the church said Mussolini was leader of Italy.
Lateran Pact of 1929
Heinrich Himmler
League of Nations
Axis Powers
5. The year 1922 when followers of Mussolini march to Rome. Victor Emmanuel II asked Mussolini to become the prime minister.
Alfred Dreyfus
Weimar Republic
1941
Black Shirt March
6. Did not want to give in to Hitlar. His country bombed German cities while the Germans bombed Britain.
Wehrmacht
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Facist Party
Winston Churchil
7. The south of Franch ruled by the Nazis.
Wehrmacht
Reichstag
Battle of the Bulge
Vichy Regime
8. Italy invaded this country to try to get more land. They were the only country in Europe to lose against an African country.
nuetrality acts
Nazi-Soviet act
Ethiopia
Chamberlain
9. Some people said they were just following orders by murdering so many people.
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Mussolini
1945
El Alamein
10. Let Hitlar occupy Sudetenland. He said the would be 'peace in our time'.
D-Day
Chamberlain
Black Shirt March
Anti-Semitism
11. Was attacked by the Allies. The king of Itlay said Mussolini could no longer be prime minister. Italy sided with the Allies.
Sicily
nuetrality acts
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Mussolini
12. The largest death camp bulit by the nazis were over 1 million Jews were killed. About 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Slavs were also executed.
Battle of Britain
League of Nations
Alfred Dreyfus
Auschwitz
13. Was not captured for years. Hannah Arendt wrote a book called Eichmann in Jerusalem about him and said he was not very interested in the Holocaust he was a part of.
V-E Day
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Battle of Britain
Adolf Eichmann
14. A conference between the Allies. Truman accused Stalin . and told them that the U.S. had and atomic bomb. Two were dropped in Japan four days later
Chamberlain
Adolf Eichmann
Mussolini
Postdam
15. The joined powers of Hitlar and Mussolini. called the Anschluss.
Axis Powers
Rome-Berlin Axis
Postdam
Auschwitz
16. The time when Hitlar did not attack anyone until 1940.
17. Where British and German troops were taken out at Belgium.
nuetrality acts
'phony war'
Heinrich Himmler
Dunkirk
18. Hitlar's military forces.
Chamberlain
Luftwaffe
Adolf Eichmann
Facist Party
19. 'Britain and the America' rea p. 115
Allies
Sicily
V-E Day
Chamberlain
20. Hitlar tried to take of the government of Bavaria.
Winston Churchil
Beer Hall Putsch
Wehrmacht
Adolf Hilter
21. Got power in Italy. did not want democracy
Allies
Beer Hall Putsch
First Zionist Congress
Mussolini
22. A fire was there and Hitlar blamed the Communists for it so he could take control of Germany.
Adolf Hilter
Mussolini
Reichstag
Facist Party
23. U.S. gave Britain ships for bases on British soil and they gave Britain supplies for the war because they promised to pay the U.S. back when the war was over.
Chamberlain
Alfred Dreyfus
Lend-Lease Act
Lateran Pact of 1929
24. Where Bernard Montgomery won over German Erwin Rommel in Egypt. The Allies kept the Suez Canal.
Facist Party
El Alamein
nuetrality acts
Adolf Eichmann
25. Put in charge to kill the Jews.
Axis Powers
Reichstag
Luftwaffe
Heinrich Himmler
26. Germany attacked Russia - but Germany did not have a very big supply line - and the winter in Russia was harsh - so it did not last too long.
Facist Party
Wehrmacht
1941
Mussolini
27. Germany - Italy - and Japan. Hitlar said: 'wage the common war forced upon them by the U.S.A. and England.'
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Lateran Pact of 1929
Axis Powers
Adolf Hilter
28. 'an international oganization formed after the First World War - was designed to prevent wars of aggression' rea. p. 111
Ethiopia
1941
League of Nations
Kursk
29. Started at the end of the First World War.
Weimar Republic
Facist Party
Kursk
Adolf Hilter
30. Britain had radar to help them. Germany had more airforce - but the British discovered Germany' secret code and could know what the Germans planned to do before they did it. The machine that found this out was called Enigma. Britain won.
Battle of Britain
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Eichmann
Postdam
31. Russian got Berlin. They were evil to even the civilians.
Adolf Hilter
Kursk
Black Shirt March
1945
32. The French who thought they were secure against the Nazis.
Maginot Line
Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
Allies
33. Acts passed by the U.S. congress saying that the United States was going to stay out of any wars over seas.
Anti-Semitism
Maginot Line
nuetrality acts
Sicily
34. Presecution of the Jews.
Dunkirk
Anti-Semitism
Black Shirt March
Mussolini
35. French and Jewish sold military secrets.
1945
Adolf Hilter
Alfred Dreyfus
El Alamein
36. Germans attacked in Belgium. American had to retreat. More lives were lost in this battle than in any other in the history of America. Soon - the Allies were gaining on the Germans again.
League of Nations
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Britain
D-Day
37. The army who helped to round up the jews.
Chamberlain
Wehrmacht
partisans
nuetrality acts
38. Promised to end democracy in Germany if he and the Nazis were elected. Wrote Mein Kampf while was in prision.
Adolf Hilter
Chamberlain
Winston Churchil
Lend-Lease Act
39. Met in Switzerland to say that the Jews should have a land to call home. Theodore Herzl is famous for Zionism. The U.S. was the first to say Isreal was a nation.
Postdam
'phony war'
First Zionist Congress
Winston Churchil
40. When the Allies invaded Normandy beach. Omaha beach was the code name. They slowly began gaining over the Germans.
Reichstag
D-Day
Free French
Mussolini
41. This party was against democracry and did not believe that it worked. They thought that war made the politc stronger.
partisans
Lateran Pact of 1929
Allies
Facist Party
42. Said Germany and Russia were allies. This was only for a short while.
Mussolini
Rome-Berlin Axis
Nazi-Soviet act
Black Shirt March
43. 'civilian fighters' rea p. 115 fought with Italy to take the German troops out of Italy.
partisans
Nazi-Soviet act
Adolf Hilter
Luftwaffe