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