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