Reviewing World War II

Which German occupation came first: the Rhineland or Austria?

• The Rhineland in 1936 – Austria was occupied in 1938

What 1931 action started World War II in Asia?

• Japan’s invasion of Manchuria

Who was the fascist leader who took power in Italy through a violent coup?

• Mussolini

Who was Tojo and what was his role?

• The leader of Japan’s ruling military council.

Who was Roosevelt?

• President of the US during WW II

Who was Churchill?

• Prime Minister of Great Britain during WW II

What did Germany get from the Munich Conference?

• Permission from Britain to annex the Sudetenland / Czechoslovakia

Which team won the English Premier League yesterday in one of the greatest sporting events ever?

• Manchester City

What conditions in Europe after WWI encouraged the rise of dictators?

• Increased nationalism and patriotism, along with economic difficulties

• Resentment over the Treaty of Versailles

Identify an “ism” that is associated with totalitarianism

• Fascism, communism, Nazism

What does Hitler’s Mein Kampf say about the Treaty of Versailles?

• That it was an unfair betrayal of Germany by the Jews

What was Hitler’s justification for annexing Austria?

• All the German people should be in one united German nation

Which American Idol winner has sold the most albums?

• Kelly Clarkson (21 million)• Carrie Underwood has ~ 14 million

What was the 1939 diplomatic agreement that drastically changed the

situation in Europe?

• The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact

What was the Allied invasion of France called?

• D-Day

X

Czechoslovakia

X

Austria

X

Poland

X

Germany

X

France

X

USSR

What was the most important reason the Allies won World War II?

• The USSR out-numbered the Germans and destroyed the Nazi army

Roughly how many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?

• 5,900,000

What nation suffered the most total deaths during WW II?

• The USSR

What happened in Hiroshima & Nagasaki?

• The United States dropped atomic bombs