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CLEP Western Civilization: WW II
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Answer 43 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Some people said they were just following orders by murdering so many people.
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Allies
Dunkirk
El Alamein
2. Did not want to give in to Hitlar. His country bombed German cities while the Germans bombed Britain.
Allies
Adolf Eichmann
Heinrich Himmler
Winston Churchil
3. 'Britain and the America' rea p. 115
Heinrich Himmler
Vichy Regime
Allies
V-E Day
4. Where British and German troops were taken out at Belgium.
Dunkirk
Reichstag
Lend-Lease Act
Nazi-Soviet act
5. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Dunkirk
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Battle of Britain
6. 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.
Battle of the Bulge
Black Shirt March
Anti-Semitism
V-E Day
7. Was attacked by the Allies. The king of Itlay said Mussolini could no longer be prime minister. Italy sided with the Allies.
Adolf Hilter
Anti-Semitism
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Sicily
8. 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.
1941
Adolf Eichmann
Rome-Berlin Axis
Anti-Semitism
9. The army who helped to round up the jews.
Winston Churchil
Wehrmacht
El Alamein
Auschwitz
10. Germany - Italy - and Japan. Hitlar said: 'wage the common war forced upon them by the U.S.A. and England.'
Axis Powers
Free French
Weimar Republic
nuetrality acts
11. Russian got Berlin. They were evil to even the civilians.
Lend-Lease Act
1945
Facist Party
nuetrality acts
12. This party was against democracry and did not believe that it worked. They thought that war made the politc stronger.
Adolf Eichmann
Mussolini
Facist Party
Free French
13. The south of Franch ruled by the Nazis.
1945
Maginot Line
Vichy Regime
Postdam
14. 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.
Axis Powers
Lateran Pact of 1929
D-Day
League of Nations
15. 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.
V-E Day
Postdam
Lateran Pact of 1929
First Zionist Congress
16. Battle in 1943 where Germans lost 300 tanks.
Heinrich Himmler
Kursk
Free French
Nazi-Soviet act
17. The French who thought they were secure against the Nazis.
Ethiopia
Sicily
Maginot Line
partisans
18. French and Jewish sold military secrets.
Black Shirt March
Vichy Regime
Alfred Dreyfus
Sicily
19. Started at the end of the First World War.
Luftwaffe
Lateran Pact of 1929
Vichy Regime
Weimar Republic
20. 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
Postdam
Winston Churchil
Heinrich Himmler
Wehrmacht
21. When the Allies invaded Normandy beach. Omaha beach was the code name. They slowly began gaining over the Germans.
Dunkirk
Heinrich Himmler
D-Day
Adolf Hilter
22. The year 1922 when followers of Mussolini march to Rome. Victor Emmanuel II asked Mussolini to become the prime minister.
Wehrmacht
Black Shirt March
1945
Ethiopia
23. May 7 - 1945 when Germany surrender.
D-Day
V-E Day
Vichy Regime
Chamberlain
24. Presecution of the Jews.
Nazi-Soviet act
Reichstag
Ethiopia
Anti-Semitism
25. 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.
Auschwitz
Winston Churchil
Black Shirt March
Chamberlain
26. The joined powers of Hitlar and Mussolini. called the Anschluss.
Rome-Berlin Axis
Sicily
Lend-Lease Act
Facist Party
27. Said Germany and Russia were allies. This was only for a short while.
Weimar Republic
Chamberlain
Nazi-Soviet act
Maginot Line
28. Promised to end democracy in Germany if he and the Nazis were elected. Wrote Mein Kampf while was in prision.
Adolf Hilter
Axis Powers
First Zionist Congress
Lateran Pact of 1929
29. 'an international oganization formed after the First World War - was designed to prevent wars of aggression' rea. p. 111
League of Nations
1941
Kursk
partisans
30. Hitlar tried to take of the government of Bavaria.
Beer Hall Putsch
Winston Churchil
Postdam
partisans
31. Acts passed by the U.S. congress saying that the United States was going to stay out of any wars over seas.
Chamberlain
Allies
First Zionist Congress
nuetrality acts
32. Let Hitlar occupy Sudetenland. He said the would be 'peace in our time'.
Chamberlain
Anti-Semitism
Beer Hall Putsch
Luftwaffe
33. Those who left Franch and wanted to fight the Nazis later. Charles de Gaulle led them.
Free French
League of Nations
El Alamein
Wehrmacht
34. The time when Hitlar did not attack anyone until 1940.
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35. Hitlar's military forces.
nuetrality acts
Rome-Berlin Axis
Luftwaffe
Adolf Hilter
36. Where Bernard Montgomery won over German Erwin Rommel in Egypt. The Allies kept the Suez Canal.
El Alamein
Auschwitz
Nazi-Soviet act
Chamberlain
37. Got power in Italy. did not want democracy
Lend-Lease Act
Mussolini
Adolf Eichmann
Luftwaffe
38. A fire was there and Hitlar blamed the Communists for it so he could take control of Germany.
Sicily
D-Day
First Zionist Congress
Reichstag
39. 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.
Beer Hall Putsch
nuetrality acts
Lend-Lease Act
D-Day
40. Italy invaded this country to try to get more land. They were the only country in Europe to lose against an African country.
Beer Hall Putsch
Ethiopia
Rome-Berlin Axis
1945
41. 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.
Beer Hall Putsch
Heinrich Himmler
Chamberlain
Battle of Britain
42. Put in charge to kill the Jews.
Auschwitz
Heinrich Himmler
1941
El Alamein
43. 'civilian fighters' rea p. 115 fought with Italy to take the German troops out of Italy.
partisans
Luftwaffe
Allies
Chamberlain