Question 1

What was the Holocaust?

Accepted Answer

the systematic annihilation of 11 million people by the Nazi Regime

Question 2

Who were affected by the Holocaust?

Accepted Answer

Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Communists, Disabled, Disfigured

Question 3

Where did the Holocaust take place?

Accepted Answer

Germany, Belgium, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and any Nazi controlled nation

Question 4

When did the Holocaust take place?

Accepted Answer

1933-1945

Question 5

When did WWII occur?

Accepted Answer

1939-1945

Question 6

Why did the Holocaust take place?

Accepted Answer

Nazis used long-practiced prejudices in European culture to create an \"Aryan\" or \"pure\" society in which ALL Jews (and other undesirables) would be eliminated

Question 7

What amount of Europe\'s Jew were killed?

Accepted Answer

two-thirds

Question 8

What are the Aryan elements?

Accepted Answer

Christian, Blond hair, blue eyes, light skin, physically fit

Question 9

What is The Poisonous Mushroom?

Accepted Answer

A children\'s book that talks about how bad Jews are

Question 10

Was there any resistance from Jews and Non-Jews against the Nazi genocide?

Accepted Answer

There were armed struggles, and organizational attempts to make life bearable

Question 11

How many countries closed their borders to the Jews trying to escape?

Accepted Answer

32

Question 12

What happened during the Evian Conference?

Accepted Answer

FDR and others acknowledged the Holocaust but did nothing to stop it

Question 13

What did Germany do to prevent Jews from leaving?

Accepted Answer

Made it so they had to have permission to leave

Question 14

What did they use the Jews as in Germany?

Accepted Answer

free Slave labor

Question 15

Socialism

Accepted Answer

you have two cows, give one cow to your neighbor

Question 16

Communism

Accepted Answer

you have 2 cows. give both cows to the government, and they may give you some milk

Question 17

Fascism

Accepted Answer

you have 2 cows, you give all of the milk to the government, and the government sells it.

Question 18

Nazism

Accepted Answer

You have 2 cows. The government shoots you and takes both cows

Question 19

Anarchism

Accepted Answer

you have 2 cows. Keep both of the cows, shoot the government agent and steal another cow.

Question 20

Capitalism

Accepted Answer

you have 2 cows. sell one cow and buy a bull

Question 21

Hitler was extremely _____ & believed in ______

Accepted Answer

nationalistic; facism

Question 22

Adolf hitler believed in militaristic ______

Accepted Answer

expansion

Question 23

What were Hitlers strong points?

Accepted Answer

Strong leader excellent public speaker

Question 24

Hitler was a _____

Accepted Answer

Nazi

Question 25

Describe Joseph Stalin?

Accepted Answer

-Ruthless & ambitious -wanted worldwide communism -revolution by workers -wanted state ownership of property -militaristic -He ruled the SU with an Iron Hand

Question 26

Describe Benito Mussolini?

Accepted Answer

-fascist -extreme nationalism -charismatic -private property with strong government control -anti-communistic -government by dictatorship

Question 27

What does Nazi stand for?

Accepted Answer

National Socialist German Workers\' Party

Question 28

Lebensraum

Accepted Answer

living space

Question 29

What country does Germany get first?

Accepted Answer

Austria

Question 30

What did Germany get after Austria?

Accepted Answer

Czechoslovakia

Question 31

What techniques did France and Britain use with Germany?

Accepted Answer

appeasement

Question 32

What did Germany sign with the SU?

Accepted Answer

and non-aggression pact that split up Poland between the two countries

Question 33

Blitzkrieg

Accepted Answer

lightning war

Question 34

What Baltic states fell under German control?

Accepted Answer

Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania

Question 35

After Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania who does Germany take next?

Accepted Answer

Denmark, and Norway

Question 36

After Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, and Norway who does Germany take next?

Accepted Answer

the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

Question 37

With the help of Italy who does Germany take next?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 38

What is the only European Country that Germany does not gain control of?

Accepted Answer

Great Britain

Question 39

How did the Treaty of Versailles sow the seeds of instability in Europe?

Accepted Answer

The treaty blamed Germany for the war, and striped the nation of its territories while at the same time making it pay exorbitant reparations, causing a deep resentment towards the countries who put together the treaty. Russia was also filled with resentment towards the countries of the Treaty of Versailles due to the fact that during the treaty they lost land-Poland, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia. The war torn countries after the war had been forced to have democracy, yet the democracies fell apart and laid the way to dictatorships. Some of the dictators were content in collecting taxes and making sure their countries survived, others were filled with revenge and had plans for success and power.

Question 40

Who was Joseph Stalin?

Accepted Answer

Stalin came into power after the death of Lenin in 1924. Stalin was one who when he had a plan he stuck to it and would let nothing get in his way to achieve his goal. When he took power he believed and hoped to create a perfect communistic state, even if it brought suffering and famine to his people during this change. In 1927 he launched a massive drive to turn Russia into a socialist nation. First on his agenda was to stamp out private farming; he did this by taking over all farm land and forcing the owners to work for the government for low wages. After his first goal was complete he started on his second, to create an industrial nation. He did this by presenting the nation with three five-year plans one in 1928, one in 1933, one in 1937. By the end of the three plans the Soviet Union was the third largest industrial power in the world. Due to the cost of these plans the SU had turned into a Police State, with spies and secret police keeping close eyes on the movements of the people. Anyone who went against Stalin was either sent to work camps in Siberia or killed.

Question 41

Through his reform of Russia into the socialist state of the Soviet Union, Stalin established a centralized totalitarian government. What is a totalitarian government and what does it mean for its\' people?

Accepted Answer

A totalitarian government is one that maintains complete control over its citizens, and takes away all rights a citizen has, while at the same time suppressing all opposition

Question 42

Who was Benito Mussolini?

Accepted Answer

Benito Mussolini, established a totalitarian government in Italy. He came to power beginning in 1919, when he rallied old war troops to fight back against politicians. He believed in extreme nationalism, and militaristic expansion. He was charismatic, and believed in private property with strong government controls. He was NOT for communism.

Question 43

Explain what fascism is.

Accepted Answer

A political movement that consisted of a strong centralized government that is headed by a powerful dictator.

Question 44

What was Mussolini\'s nickname?

Accepted Answer

Il Duce or \"the chief\"

Question 45

Who was Adolf Hitler?

Accepted Answer

At the end of WWI Hitler was a jobless soldier, and by 1919 he joined the National Socialist German Workers\' Party, Nazi Party. Hitler soon became the party\'s leader. He believed in extreme nationalism and racism. In militaristic expansion. In a strong leader, and in private property with strong government controls. He was an anti-communist.

Question 46

Explain what Hitler believed the 3 parts or \"elements\" of Nazism were

Accepted Answer

1. Based on extreme nationalism, in this case uniting all german people under one German empire 2. The idea the German were from the perfect Aryan race-blue eyes, and blond hair. The \"Aryan\" race was destined to rule and all \"inferior\" races-Jews, Slaves, and nonwhites-were fit to serve the Aryans. 3. National expansion. Hitler believed that the Germans needed living space otherwise known as \'lebensraum.\'

Question 47

How did Hitler rise to power? Why do you think he found so much widespread support among the German people?

Accepted Answer

To Hitler the Great Depression was a dream come true, since the Nazis Party was about the worker and not the business. By 1932, Germany had about six million unemployed people and most of them turned to the Nazi party for help. This helped the party win the March 1932 election, and although it did not win majority vote it did have the most and thusly Hitler was appointed prime chancellor. He quickly dismantled the democratic government and set up the Third Reich. Hitler mostly likely won power because his people fought for the workers, and also because when he gave speeches to the people he made sure they knew that WWI was not their fault, that they were not bad people, and that they were superior to the rest.

Question 48

Explain what the United States\' foreign policy was during the early 1930s. Why was it this way?

Accepted Answer

The country recognized the Soviet Union as a country and agreed to exchange ambassadors. Roosevelt continued the Good neighbor program in South America, where there was no intervention or American metaling. And pushed to put the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act through congress, which would give the President the right to control trade agreements with foreign nations and would lower tariffs by fifty percent.

Question 49

What were the Neutrality Acts?

Accepted Answer

The first two neutrality acts outlawed arms sales and loans to other countries at war, and the third was the ban of selling arms to a country undergoing any type of civil war, which had broken out in Spain.

Question 50

What were the Nuremberg Laws

Accepted Answer

Striped jews of their civil rights & property if they tried to leave Germany, ad forced Jews 6 and up to wear the yellow star of David on clothing

Question 51

What was Hitlers final solution?

Accepted Answer

Jews that were healthy enough to work would be sent to labor camps, the rest would be exterminated

Question 52

Genocide

Accepted Answer

the deliberate killing of an entire race

Question 53

Describe what concentration camps were like?

Accepted Answer

those in the camps suffered from starvation. They worked from dawn to suck, seven days a week, till they could no longer work and then they were killed

Question 54

What is the luftwaffe?

Accepted Answer

the german airforce

Question 55

Who was Britain\'s prime minister?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 56

How long did the battle of britain last, when did is start and when did it end?

Accepted Answer

10 months, August \'40- May 41\'

Question 57

Hitler attempted to crush Britain by launching what?

Accepted Answer

massive aerial raids

Question 58

How many British died in the Battle of Britain?

Accepted Answer

over 40,000

Question 59

What did the RAF use to help win the war?

Accepted Answer

radar

Question 60

What town does Churchill let get bombed?

Accepted Answer

Coventry, England

Question 61

Who made up the Axis Powers?

Accepted Answer

Germany, Japan, Italy

Question 62

Who made up the Allied Powers

Accepted Answer

Britain, France, SU

Question 63

What was the US policy for the war?

Accepted Answer

1935 Neutrality Acts

Question 64

What did the US do to help the Allies?

Accepted Answer

cash and carry lend and lease

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