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CLEP Western Civilization: WW II
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Answer 43 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The time when Hitlar did not attack anyone until 1940.
2. Those who left Franch and wanted to fight the Nazis later. Charles de Gaulle led them.
Auschwitz
Free French
Wehrmacht
'phony war'
3. Hitlar's military forces.
Adolf Eichmann
Battle of Britain
Luftwaffe
Postdam
4. Put in charge to kill the Jews.
Heinrich Himmler
Battle of Britain
League of Nations
First Zionist Congress
5. 'civilian fighters' rea p. 115 fought with Italy to take the German troops out of Italy.
partisans
Weimar Republic
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Ethiopia
6. 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.
Kursk
Adolf Eichmann
Lend-Lease Act
Anti-Semitism
7. Did not want to give in to Hitlar. His country bombed German cities while the Germans bombed Britain.
Beer Hall Putsch
nuetrality acts
Winston Churchil
League of Nations
8. 'an international oganization formed after the First World War - was designed to prevent wars of aggression' rea. p. 111
Ethiopia
Beer Hall Putsch
League of Nations
Battle of the Bulge
9. Germany - Italy - and Japan. Hitlar said: 'wage the common war forced upon them by the U.S.A. and England.'
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Axis Powers
Rome-Berlin Axis
Wehrmacht
10. 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.
El Alamein
1941
Allies
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
11. Got power in Italy. did not want democracy
Mussolini
Beer Hall Putsch
Battle of Britain
Facist Party
12. This party was against democracry and did not believe that it worked. They thought that war made the politc stronger.
Lend-Lease Act
Facist Party
'phony war'
Maginot Line
13. Said Germany and Russia were allies. This was only for a short while.
Battle of the Bulge
Rome-Berlin Axis
partisans
Nazi-Soviet act
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.
Adolf Hilter
First Zionist Congress
Lateran Pact of 1929
V-E Day
15. 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.
Postdam
Adolf Eichmann
League of Nations
Luftwaffe
16. The army who helped to round up the jews.
Adolf Eichmann
Wehrmacht
1941
Black Shirt March
17. Presecution of the Jews.
Battle of Britain
Beer Hall Putsch
Chamberlain
Anti-Semitism
18. 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
Winston Churchil
Postdam
Wehrmacht
Battle of the Bulge
19. Promised to end democracy in Germany if he and the Nazis were elected. Wrote Mein Kampf while was in prision.
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Hilter
Mussolini
Reichstag
20. 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.
Facist Party
Free French
Adolf Hilter
First Zionist Congress
21. 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.
Winston Churchil
Black Shirt March
Battle of the Bulge
El Alamein
22. Where British and German troops were taken out at Belgium.
Heinrich Himmler
Dunkirk
1941
Lateran Pact of 1929
23. Battle in 1943 where Germans lost 300 tanks.
Maginot Line
Winston Churchil
Kursk
Wehrmacht
24. Where Bernard Montgomery won over German Erwin Rommel in Egypt. The Allies kept the Suez Canal.
Black Shirt March
El Alamein
'phony war'
Postdam
25. A fire was there and Hitlar blamed the Communists for it so he could take control of Germany.
partisans
Free French
Reichstag
Chamberlain
26. The south of Franch ruled by the Nazis.
Black Shirt March
Wehrmacht
Facist Party
Vichy Regime
27. Acts passed by the U.S. congress saying that the United States was going to stay out of any wars over seas.
Black Shirt March
Ethiopia
nuetrality acts
Winston Churchil
28. 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.
Mussolini
Facist Party
Auschwitz
partisans
29. Russian got Berlin. They were evil to even the civilians.
Adolf Hilter
El Alamein
League of Nations
1945
30. May 7 - 1945 when Germany surrender.
V-E Day
Chamberlain
Auschwitz
Mussolini
31. The year 1922 when followers of Mussolini march to Rome. Victor Emmanuel II asked Mussolini to become the prime minister.
Black Shirt March
Sicily
Luftwaffe
Rome-Berlin Axis
32. Hitlar tried to take of the government of Bavaria.
Mussolini
Beer Hall Putsch
Dunkirk
nuetrality acts
33. Started at the end of the First World War.
V-E Day
Adolf Eichmann
Weimar Republic
Chamberlain
34. Let Hitlar occupy Sudetenland. He said the would be 'peace in our time'.
Lateran Pact of 1929
Chamberlain
Vichy Regime
Wehrmacht
35. Some people said they were just following orders by murdering so many people.
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Battle of Britain
Alfred Dreyfus
Chamberlain
36. 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
Wehrmacht
Lend-Lease Act
Sicily
37. 'Britain and the America' rea p. 115
Allies
Weimar Republic
Adolf Eichmann
Sicily
38. The joined powers of Hitlar and Mussolini. called the Anschluss.
Free French
Ethiopia
Rome-Berlin Axis
Dunkirk
39. Italy invaded this country to try to get more land. They were the only country in Europe to lose against an African country.
Alfred Dreyfus
Adolf Eichmann
Facist Party
Ethiopia
40. The French who thought they were secure against the Nazis.
League of Nations
Dunkirk
Winston Churchil
Maginot Line
41. 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
El Alamein
Battle of the Bulge
42. French and Jewish sold military secrets.
Dunkirk
D-Day
Alfred Dreyfus
Luftwaffe
43. When the Allies invaded Normandy beach. Omaha beach was the code name. They slowly began gaining over the Germans.
Auschwitz
D-Day
Maginot Line
Postdam