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CLEP Western Civilization: WW II

Subjects : clep, history
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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.






2. 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.






3. Put in charge to kill the Jews.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. The joined powers of Hitlar and Mussolini. called the Anschluss.






7. Germany - Italy - and Japan. Hitlar said: 'wage the common war forced upon them by the U.S.A. and England.'






8. May 7 - 1945 when Germany surrender.






9. The army who helped to round up the jews.






10. Did not want to give in to Hitlar. His country bombed German cities while the Germans bombed Britain.






11. This party was against democracry and did not believe that it worked. They thought that war made the politc stronger.






12. 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.






13. When the Allies invaded Normandy beach. Omaha beach was the code name. They slowly began gaining over the Germans.






14. Hitlar tried to take of the government of Bavaria.






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.






16. Where Bernard Montgomery won over German Erwin Rommel in Egypt. The Allies kept the Suez Canal.






17. Was attacked by the Allies. The king of Itlay said Mussolini could no longer be prime minister. Italy sided with the Allies.






18. Russian got Berlin. They were evil to even the civilians.






19. A fire was there and Hitlar blamed the Communists for it so he could take control of Germany.






20. Italy invaded this country to try to get more land. They were the only country in Europe to lose against an African country.






21. The south of Franch ruled by the Nazis.






22. 'an international oganization formed after the First World War - was designed to prevent wars of aggression' rea. p. 111






23. Hitlar's military forces.






24. The year 1922 when followers of Mussolini march to Rome. Victor Emmanuel II asked Mussolini to become the prime minister.






25. Let Hitlar occupy Sudetenland. He said the would be 'peace in our time'.






26. French and Jewish sold military secrets.






27. Promised to end democracy in Germany if he and the Nazis were elected. Wrote Mein Kampf while was in prision.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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






31. 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.






32. 'Britain and the America' rea p. 115






33. Acts passed by the U.S. congress saying that the United States was going to stay out of any wars over seas.






34. Got power in Italy. did not want democracy






35. The French who thought they were secure against the Nazis.






36. Said Germany and Russia were allies. This was only for a short while.






37. Those who left Franch and wanted to fight the Nazis later. Charles de Gaulle led them.






38. 'civilian fighters' rea p. 115 fought with Italy to take the German troops out of Italy.






39. The time when Hitlar did not attack anyone until 1940.


40. Presecution of the Jews.






41. Battle in 1943 where Germans lost 300 tanks.






42. Where British and German troops were taken out at Belgium.






43. Started at the end of the First World War.