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Round 1 Round 2 UltimateQuestion
Winston Winston ChurchillChurchill
Franklin Franklin RooseveRooseve
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Charles Charles de de
GaulleGaulle
LeninLenin WWIIWWII Road to Road to WarWar
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StalinStalinNaziNaziGermanyGermany
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HolocaustHolocaust
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In this 1938 event, the Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues and businesses and
beat up and arrested many Jews.
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Kristallnacht Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken (“Night of Broken
Glass”)Glass”)
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This 1934 event resulted in Hitler’s
destruction of the S.A. (at the request of the
German military).
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““Night of Long Night of Long Knives”Knives”
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This idea from Mein Kampf called for
Germany to conquer lands in eastern Europe to expand Germany’s
empire.
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““lebensraum” lebensraum” (“living space”)(“living space”)
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These laws gave Hitler dictatorial power in
Germany beginning in 1934.
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Enabling ActsEnabling Acts
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These laws, beginning in 1935, stripped Jews of their citizenship and severely discriminated
against all Jewish people.
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Nuremburg Nuremburg LawsLaws
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Lenin reluctantly allowed some
capitalistic measures in the early 1920s when he instituted
this program.
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NEP (New NEP (New Economic Economic
Policy)Policy)
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During the Russian Civil War, this became
the first type of communism practiced
in the Soviet Union between 1918 and
1920.
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war war communismcommunism
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Lenin oppressed his opponents
through the use of this secret police
organization.
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ChekaCheka
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This leader of the Red Army had more
philosophically in common with Lenin
than did Stalin.
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Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky
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This 20th-century political philosophy claims a
communist society must first be controlled by a dictatorship of a small group of professional revolutionary elites.
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Marxist-Marxist-LeninismLeninism
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In order to catch up to the West
industrially, Stalin instituted the first of these in 1928.
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Five-Year PlansFive-Year Plans
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This was Stalin’s program to
communize the countryside and
increase agricultural productivity.
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collectivizatiocollectivizatio
nn
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Stalin staged these events in the 1930s to rid his government of
Old Bolsheviks.
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show trials show trials or r purgespurges
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Millions of Soviet citizens died in
these Soviet camps.
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gulagsgulags
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Unlike Trotsky who believed in an
immediate international communist revolution, Stalin believed in this
policy by the mid-1920s.
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“Socialism in Socialism in One Country”One Country”
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This 1942-43 battle was the turning
point of the war in Eastern Europe.
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StalingradStalingrad
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This June, 1944 battle was the
turning point of the war in western
Europe.
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D-Day (invasion of Normandy)
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This 1945 war-time conference stated that
Germany would be divided into four zones
and that a United Nations would be
created.
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Yalta Yalta ConferenceConference
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This August, 1939 agreement opened the
way for Germany’s invasion of Poland and
the division of that country with the USSR.
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German-Soviet Non-Aggression
Pact?
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This 1938 conference represented the height
of appeasement and gave part of
Czechoslovakia to Germany.
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Munich Munich ConferenceConference
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This economic catastrophe of the late
20s and early 30s became a major cause
for the rise of fascism in Germany and Japan.
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Great Great DepressionDepression
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This international organization failed in
its mission of collective security to prevent another World War.
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League of League of NationsNations
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Germany reoccupied this German region in
1936 in direct violation of the
Versailles Treaty.
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RhinelandRhineland
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This German term refers to Germany’s
annexation of Austria in 1938.
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AnschlussAnschluss
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In 1939, Hitler demanded that this city
in the Polish Corridor become a “free city” with clear access to Germany via rail.
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DanzigDanzig
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This Nazi death camp in Poland is the most notorious as nearly
one million Jews died there.
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AuschwitzAuschwitz
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Prior to the construction of death
camps, Jews were herded into these sealed districts in
Polish cities.
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What are ghettos?ghettos?
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This 1941 meeting resulted in the “Final
Solution” to the Jewish question.
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Wannsee Wannsee ConferenceConference
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This Nazi organization headed by Heinrich
Himmler oversaw the Holocaust.
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SSSS
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In addition to six million others who died in the
Holocaust, this percentage of European
Jews perished in the Holocaust.
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two-thirdstwo-thirds
The ThirdThe ThirdReichReich
WorldWorldWar II:War II:
ReloadedReloaded
PacificPacificWarWar
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SovietSovietUnionUnionIl DuceIl Duce
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GrabGrabBagBag
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This group of para-military thugs
provided the muscle for Mussolini’s rise to
power.
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Black ShirtsBlack Shirts
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In 1935, Mussolini ordered the invasion of this African nation as payback for a pre-
WWI defeat.
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EthiopiaEthiopia
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This 1922 event resulted in
Mussolini taking power in the
Kingdom of Italy.
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March on RomeMarch on Rome
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In this 1929 deal, Mussolini gave the Vatican sovereignty
while the pope agreed to stay largely out of Italy’s
political matters.
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Lateran PactLateran Pact
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Mussolini organized this type of fascist
state, where various economic interests in the country function collectively for the
benefit of the state.
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corporate statecorporate state
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Hitler believed that this race was superior to all
others.
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AryanAryan
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This 1933 event in Germany gave Hitler an excuse to destroy the communist party and
arrest its leaders.
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Reichstag fireReichstag fire
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This member of Hitler’s inner circle was the
Nazi propaganda minister who was
determined to make the Führer look like a
“god.”
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Joseph Joseph GoebbelsGoebbels
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This member of Hitler’s inner circle eventually became the leader of the
German Luftwaffe (air force).
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Hermann Hermann GöringGöring
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This filmmaker contributed to the
larger-than-life image of Hitler through her film Triumph of the
Will.
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Leni Leni RiefenstahlRiefenstahl
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These relatively wealthy peasants became targets of
Stalin’s wrath as they resisted
collectivization.
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KulaksKulaks
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This city became the new capital of Russia after the
Russian Revolution.
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MoscowMoscow
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This phrase represents Stalin’s belief in brutal top-down rule during the Five-Year Plans.
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““Revolution Revolution from Above”from Above”
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This novel by George Orwell satirized the Russian Revolution and Stalinist rule.
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Animal FarmAnimal Farm
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Stalin conquered these three Baltic
states shortly after the beginning of
World War II.
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Estonia, Estonia, Latvia, Latvia,
LithuaniaLithuania
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This technological innovation enabled the
Royal Air Force’s victory over the
Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain.
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radarradar
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This new type of German warfare in WWII allowed it to defeat its enemies
quickly.
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blitzkriegblitzkrieg
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The Allies founded this international
organization in 1945 in the hopes of promoting peace after World War
II.
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United United NationsNations
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Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain headed this new
puppet state in the German empire
beginning in 1940.
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Vichy FranceVichy France
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This 1941 document proclaimed the Allies would not fight for
territorial conquest but rather to promote peace
through a new international organization.
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Atlantic Atlantic CharterCharter
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The United States entered World War II when Japan attacked
this target.
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Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, HawaiiHawaii
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On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on this Japanese city.
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HiroshimaHiroshima
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This 1942 battle was the turning point of the war
in the Pacific.
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MidwayMidway
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This American strategy in the Pacific war saw U.S. forces conquer strategic
islands northwards toward Japan.
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Island HoppingIsland Hopping
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This July 1945 wartime conference of the “Big Three” established that Germany would be de-
Nazified while it demanded unconditional
surrender from Japan.
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Potsdam Potsdam ConferenceConference
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This was the world’s first freeway system,
built in Germany during Hitler’s rule in the
1930s.
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AutobahnAutobahn
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This fascist rebel took control of Spain in the
mid-1930s with the military aid of Nazi
Germany and Fascist Italy.
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Francisco Francisco FrancoFranco
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This general became the leader of the
“Free French” after France was defeated
in June, 1940.
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Charles de Charles de GaulleGaulle
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This 1928 peace agreement proclaimed “war is illegal,” thus giving Europeans a
false sense of security.
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Kellogg-Briand Kellogg-Briand PactPact
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This 1933 economic summit ended
unsuccessfully when the U.S. undermined it.
Hitler was very encouraged!
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London London Economic Economic
ConferenceConference
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Category: Wartime Category: Wartime DiplomacyDiplomacy
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This 1940 pact created a military alliance between Germany,
Italy, and Japan: they became known as the
“Axis Powers”
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