1. Reviewing World War II

2. Which German occupation came first: the Rhineland or Austria? The Rhineland in 1936 – Austria was occupied in 1938

3. What 1931 action started World War II in Asia? Japan’s invasion of Manchuria

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

5. Who was Tojo and what was his role? The leader of Japan’s ruling military council.

6. Who was Roosevelt? President of the US during WW II

7. Who was Churchill? Prime Minister of Great Britain during WW II

8. What did Germany get from the Munich Conference? Permission from Britain to annex the Sudetenland / Czechoslovakia

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

10. 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

11. Identify an “ism” that is associated with totalitarianism Fascism, communism, Nazism

12. What does Hitler’s Mein Kampf say about the Treaty of Versailles? That it was an unfair betrayal of Germany by the Jews

13. What was Hitler’s justification for annexing Austria? All the German people should be in one united German nation

14. Which American Idol winner has sold the most albums? Kelly Clarkson (21 million) Carrie Underwood has ~ 14 million

15. What was the 1939 diplomatic agreement that drastically changed the situation in Europe? The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact

16. What was the Allied invasion of France called? D-Day

17. X Czechoslovakia

18. X Austria

19. X Poland

20. X Germany

21. X France

22. X USSR

23. What was the most important reason the Allies won World War II? The USSR out-numbered the Germans and destroyed the Nazi army

24. Roughly how many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust? 5,900,000

25. What nation suffered the most total deaths during WW II? The USSR

26. What happened in Hiroshima & Nagasaki? The United States dropped atomic bombs