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