What is one of the traits of a

totalitarian state?

What is one of the traits of a

totalitarian state?

What is one of the traits of a

totalitarian state?

What is one of the traits of a

totalitarian state?

What is one of the traits of a

totalitarian state?

What is one of the traits of a

totalitarian state?

Who replaced Lenin as leader

of the Soviet Union in 1924?

What were Stalin’s strategies to improve

the production of Soviet factories

called?

What effect did the “Five-Year Plans” have on

Soviet industrial production?

What was a gulag?

What do historians call Stalin’s elimination of

effective military, communist party, and government officials

during the late 1930s?

What was the name of the Soviet

Union’s secret police force?

What organization did Stalin completely ban,

even going so far as dynamiting its meeting

places?

What is one reason the Russian people

tolerated communist rule for so long?

What is one reason the Russian people

tolerated communist rule for so long?

What is one reason the Russian people

tolerated communist rule for so long?

What do we call extreme nationalism which

glorifies violence, the military, discipline, and a

“state-before-self” attitude?

Who became the Fascist leader of

Italy in 1922?

What were Mussolini’s most dedicated

followers, the ones who enforced state policies,

known as?

What was the assigned role of

women in Fascist Italy?

What organization were Italian boys

expected to join in order to learn

military discipline?

How did the German Weimar Republic attempt to pay off

Germany’s debts from WWI?

What problem did the overprinting of

German money cause during the 1920s?

What do we call fascism which is

focused on a belief in racial superiority and

anti-Semitism?

•Who is this man?

What do we call Hitler’s attempt to

seize power in Munich in 1923?

What was the outcome of the

Beer Hall Putsch?

What was the central theme of

Hitler’s book Mein Kampf?

What term did Hitler incorrectly use to describe the German “master race” of tall, blond-haired, blue-

eyed “supermen”?

How did Hitler become

Chancellor of Germany in 1933?

What was the name of Hitler’s

secret police force?

What did Hitler begin rebuilding, in direct violation of

the Treaty of Versailles?

What do we call the series of 29 laws passed in 1935 to limit the rights of

German Jews?

The Nuremberg Laws redefined Jews from

being a religious denomination to being

what?

What professions were German Jews not

allowed to practice after 1935?

What is the English name for “Kristallnacht,” an

attack instigated by the Gestapo against Jewish

neighborhoods and businesses in Germany ?

Where did the Nazis begin sending “undesirables” and “enemies of the state” such as Jews, the disabled, and

homosexuals?

The Nationalists and Communists fought a

civil war between 1927 and 1949 in what

country?

Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of which

group of Chinese during the civil war?

Mao Zedong was the leader of which

group of Chinese during the civil war?

What was Japan’s motivation for the

Manchurian invasion?

What do we call the slaughter of over 200,000

unarmed Chinese civilians by Japanese

troops in December of 1937?

When the League of Nations criticized Japan’s actions in

Manchuria, how did Japan respond?

What group essentially took control of Japan’s government over the course of the 1930s?

What independent African country

did Italy invade in 1935?

After Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie addressed the League of Nations with an impassioned plea

for action after his country was overrun by the Italians, what action did the League take?

Why did the Allies (Britain, France, the US) take no action to stop German

aggression before the fall of 1939?

Why did the Allies (Britain, France, the US) take no action to stop

German aggression before the fall of 1939?

Why did the Allies (Britain, France, the US) take no action to stop

German aggression before the fall of 1939?

Why did the Allies (Britain, France, the US) take no action to stop

German aggression before the fall of 1939?

Why did the Allies (Britain, France, the US) take no action to stop

German aggression before the fall of 1939?

Why did the Allies (Britain, France, the US) take no action to stop

German aggression before the fall of 1939?

Who’s civil war did Germany use to test new

military weapons and tactics in preparing for

WWII?

What country was annexed to

Germany by the Anschluss?

What term did the Nazis use to describe their need for more “living room” for the German

people, land they planned to take from the Slavic peoples of Poland

and Russia?

Britain pressured Czechoslovakia into

surrendering the German-speaking Sudetenland to the Germans after what

meeting?

What term means to give someone what

they want in order to avoid a conflict?

Who did Germany sign a non-aggression pact with

in 1939, only to break the pact less than 2 years

later?

What country did Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invade in September 1939, an event which prompted Britain and France to

declare war on Germany?

What was the name of Germany’s new military tactic of striking with tremendous

speed and force, with the intention of knocking out your enemy before they can react

to your attack?

• This photo was taken shortly after the surrender of which country?

Some of the heaviest fighting of the early war took place between the Germans and British in

what non-European region?

How did the US react to Japan’s invasion of French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies?

Who was Prime Minister of Great

Britain throughout the majority of

WWII?

How was most of the fighting done during the Battle

of Britain?

After giving up on invading Britain, Germany focused on terror-

bombing civilian targets with the hopes of weakening British

morale. What do we call this period of attacks?

What was the strategy used by Soviet forces

after the Nazis invaded in 1941?

What city saw the bloodiest battle in human history, with possibly as many as 3 million casualties, and is the largest example of modern urban

warfare?

Where did Japan attack on

December 7, 1941?

What did the Japanese fail to destroy in their

attack at Pearl Harbor, an error that would

ultimately cost them the war?

What do we call the abuse of American and Filipino

prisoners of war (POWs) by Japanese soldiers after the capture of the Philippines?

What is the general term for the Nazis’ plan to exterminate

the Jews and other “undesirables” through the use

of death camps and forced labor?

At least how many people died in the

concentration camps?

Roughly, how many of the victims of the

Holocaust were Jewish?

What group was detained by the US government in “internment

camps” for the entire duration of WWII due to fears of potential

sabotage and espionage?

What group of people had to assume the role

of factory workers in the US following the outbreak of war?

What do we call the US strategy of fighting for only strategically

important islands in the Pacific, rather than trying to take back

every island one at a time?

What is the better known name for the

invasion of Normandy by Allied troops on June 6,

1944?

What action did Hitler take just

before the surrender of Germany to the

Allies?

What were Japanese pilots who carried out suicide attacks against

US warships called?

What new weapon was developed by

the Manhattan Project?

Who made the decision to use atomic

weapons against Japan?

What Japanese city was the first to have an atomic bomb dropped on it on

August 6, 1945, killing over 70,000 people instantly?

What was the second Japanese city to have an

atomic bomb dropped on it on August 9, 1945, killing

over 40,000 people?

What is this poster an example of?