CHAPTER 16.1, 16.2, 16.4 JEOPARDY REVIEW

PEOPLE

100 Elected to an unprecedented 3 (and eventually 4) terms of office, this president led the United States through the Great Depression and WWII: Franklin D. Roosevelt

200 He became the head of the National Socialist Germany Workers (NAZI) Party: Adolf Hitler

300 He attempted to get the Soviet Union to industrialize quickly through a series of 5 Year Plans: Josef Stalin

400 His name will be forever linked to the unpopular policy of appeasement: Neville Chamberlain

500 He became the fascist dictator of Italy: Benito Mussolini

600 He accused Chamberlain of appeasing Hitler. He then succeeded him as Prime Minister of Great Britain: Winston Churchill

700 He became dictator of Spain after overthrowing the Spanish republic (with the help of Hitler and Mussolini): Francisco Franco

800 As emperor of Japan, he allowed militarists to direct the country’s foreign policy: Hirohito

900 He escaped the German onslaught in France, and escaped to England to set up a French government in exile: General Charles de Gaulle

1000 As Prime Minister of Japan, he ordered Japanese forces to attack the United States: Hideki Tojo

PLACES

100 When Hitler came to power, he re-occupied this demilitarized zone located between France and Germany: the Rhineland

200 The invasion of this country by Germany marks the official beginning of World War II: Poland

300 Hitler annexed this country in 1938, saying Germany was invited to take over; it shared a common culture with Germany: Austria

400 Hitler threatened war if he was not given the western part of Czechoslovakia, which was home to 3 million German speaking people. The territory was called this: the Sudetenland

500 The U.S. Pacific Fleet suffered serious damage when the Japanese attacked it here: Pearl Harbor

600 FDR found a loophole in the Neutrality Acts and aided this Asian country when it was attacked by Japan: China

700 Germany tried to pound this country into submission by using air power during “the Blitz” of summer 1940: Great Britain/England

800 In order to boost Italy’s national pride, Mussolini invaded this African country: Ethiopia

900 Hitler’s war machine had a test run when Germany aided Francisco Franco during this country’s civil war: Spain

1000 When the Nazis invaded and conquered France, they split the country in two. Which part was occupied? Why? northern France, because it was most susceptible to invasion by the Allies

TERMS

100 The use of aircraft, fast moving armor and infantry forces comprised the new German strategy of attack called Blitzkrieg, or: “lightning war”

200 These three countries comprised the Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, and Japan

300 This is the policy of giving into an aggressor’s demands in order to avoid conflict: appeasement

400 This political system celebrates extreme nationalism, extreme militarism, expansion and gives no civil rights to its citizens: fascism

500 Great Britain, the U.S., Soviet Union, and the Free French were the major powers of this military alliance: the Allies

600 The French fully expected to be invaded immediately after the fall of Poland in 1939, but instead experienced the “phony war” called this in German: sitzkrieg

700 With this political system, the factors of production are controlled by the government, and there is no private ownership of property: communism

800 Both Germany and the Soviet Union promised not to attack each other when they signed this agreement: non-aggression pact BONUS: What was Part 2 of the pact? to invade and split Poland

900 The signing of this document by FDR, Churchill and 26 nations laid out the common goals for after the war: Atlantic Charter

1000 This was a policy embraced by the United States after World War I; basically not wanted to get involved the affairs/conflicts of other nations: isolationism

HODGE PODGE

100 The German people referred to Hitler as Der Fuhrer. Translated, it means: the Leader

200 In order to keep the U.S. out of overseas conflicts, Congress passed this series of acts forbidding the U.S. from selling armaments to nations at war: Neutrality Acts

300 This peace treaty sowed the seeds of World War II by blaming all of World War I on Germany and harshly punishing them: Versailles Treaty

400 As war in Europe heated up, Congress made this provision to the Neutrality Acts in order to help Great Britain; but they could buy on credit: cash and carry Replaced by? Lend/Lease

500 Hitler’s guidebook for Germany’s future, written while he was in prison: Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

600 Germany’s Third Reich, or Third Empire, was supposed to last this long: 1000 years

700 Hitler said that Germany’s people needed more lebensraum, meaning: living space

800 The Japanese failed in this major objective during their attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet: to sink the four aircraft carriers

900 Official starting date of WWII with Germany’s invasion of Poland: September 1, 1939

1000 According to FDR, it is a “day that will live in infamy” as the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941