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