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