WORLD WAR 2 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fascism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a
denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.
Totalitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A political system in which the government has total control
over the lives of individual citizens.
Dictator - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A ruler who has complete power over a country
Nazism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on
totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s.
Appeasement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict
Axis Powers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied Powers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France
during World War II.
Blitzkrieg - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces
against Poland n 1939
Invasion of Poland - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Germany invaded, breaking their agreement, so Britain and
France declared war, starting World War II
Hitler - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945), Nazi leader and
founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust
Mussolini - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945)
, Joseph Stalin - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after
1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist,
using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition
The Fall of France - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅France and Britain created a Maginot Line, which is a system
of fortifications along France's eastern border. The Germans rode through an area of wooded ravines in
northest France, completely avoiding the blockade. Then Germans marched to Paris and trapped the
soldiers; soon Hitler gave them terms of peace.
The Battle of Britain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Is the name given to the air campaign waged by the
German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The
objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Lend Lease Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a law passed in 1941 that allowed the United States to ship
arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the Axis powers
Pearl Harbor - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the
Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200
aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war
on Japan and Germany, entering World War II.
The Pacific Theater - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The war in the Pacific, most islands were involved, Japan
tried to take these islands and sent 65 bombing raids all the way to Australia.
The Holocaust - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Holocaust took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. Six
million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaberators. Miliions of
non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti(Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities,
homosexuals and Jehova's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis.
Bataan Death March - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Japanese forced about 60,000 of americans and
philippines to march 100 miles with little food and water, most died or were killed on the way
Island Hopping - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A military strategy used during World War II that involved
selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others
Fascism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a
denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.
Totalitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A political system in which the government has total control
over the lives of individual citizens.
Dictator - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A ruler who has complete power over a country
Nazism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on
totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s.
Appeasement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict
Axis Powers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied Powers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France
during World War II.
Blitzkrieg - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces
against Poland n 1939
Invasion of Poland - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Germany invaded, breaking their agreement, so Britain and
France declared war, starting World War II
Hitler - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945), Nazi leader and
founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust
Mussolini - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945)
, Joseph Stalin - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after
1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist,
using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition
The Fall of France - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅France and Britain created a Maginot Line, which is a system
of fortifications along France's eastern border. The Germans rode through an area of wooded ravines in
northest France, completely avoiding the blockade. Then Germans marched to Paris and trapped the
soldiers; soon Hitler gave them terms of peace.
The Battle of Britain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Is the name given to the air campaign waged by the
German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The
objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Lend Lease Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a law passed in 1941 that allowed the United States to ship
arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the Axis powers
Pearl Harbor - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the
Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200
aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war
on Japan and Germany, entering World War II.
The Pacific Theater - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The war in the Pacific, most islands were involved, Japan
tried to take these islands and sent 65 bombing raids all the way to Australia.
The Holocaust - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Holocaust took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. Six
million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaberators. Miliions of
non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti(Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities,
homosexuals and Jehova's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis.
Bataan Death March - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Japanese forced about 60,000 of americans and
philippines to march 100 miles with little food and water, most died or were killed on the way
Island Hopping - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A military strategy used during World War II that involved
selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others
