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