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| In order to placate the concerns of business leaders nervous about the Nazis, Hitler carried ou this purge against Ernst Roehm, the leader of the SA called for a "second revolution" to limit influence of society's elites in government. Hitler also purged Roehm's followers. | This was the Night of the Long Knives, carried out in June 30, 1934. It resulted in increased consevative support for the Nazis. |
| The Nazis (and other governments in the Great Depression years) pursued this policy of economic stimulation which called for massive government spending on pubic works programs, defense spending, and other infusions to public funds. What was this policy called? What famous freeway system did the Nazis construct with this policy? | The policy is called pump priming. Among other things, the Nazis built the Autobahn--still in use today. |
| These 2 men led, respectively, the Reich Ministry of Propaganda, the Schutzstaffel, or SS, and the Gestapo--the secret police force. | Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goering (later leader of the Luftwaffe) |
| In 1935, this series of laws was passed which depreived Jews of citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and other Germans. | the Nuremberg Laws |
| This government program, carried out in the late 1930s, experimented on and euthanized the handicapped and the mentally disabled. | The T4 Project--which used carbon monixide poisoning. |
| On November 9-10, the Nazi state egged on Germans who attacked over 200 synagogues and destoryed property own by thousands of German Jews. What was this event called? | this was Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass |
| Japan invaded this economically productive region of China in 1931. | Manchuria |
| Fascist Italy, in 1935, invaded this last African state not ovewhelmed by imperialism. | Abyssinia, or Ethiopia--ruled by Haile Selassie (also inspiration for the reggae movement) |
| This was the Nazi term used to gain "living space" through the expansion of territory where the Aryan race could live. | Lebensraum |
| This was the Spanish general who staged a fascist uprising against the republican Popular Front-led government in Spain in 1936. | Francisco Franco |
| In 1934 the German people in a plebiscite overwhelmingly (90%) approved the merger of these 2 executive offices of President and Chancellor, thereby creating the title of Fuhrer for Adolf Hitler? Which 2 offices did the German people combine? | the office of President and Chancellor |
| Pablo Picasso painted this memorial mural to the dead in 1937 when German planes attacked this town in Spain in support of Franco's fascist forces. | Guernica |
| This term refers to the annexation of Austria to the greater Germany in 1938. | Anschluss |
| Name the Prime Minister of England, and as well name his diplomatic policy he used to placate Hitler in 1938 at the Munich conference. | Neville Chamberlain, appeasement |
| What was the part of Czechoslovakia that was annexed by Germany in 1938? | the Sudetenland |
| Which country was effectively divided by Nazi Germany and the USSR after they signed a pact in August 1939? | Poland |
| Wanting to avoid a stalemate that protracted the war of 1918 to 1918, German forces used this strategy in which they concentrated airplanes, tanks, and motorized infantry to rapidly and massivelyoverwhelm Poland, France, and the Low Countries. | blitzkrieg |
| After December 1941, Hitler's enemies came together in the Grand Alliance of these four powers. | Great Britain, the USA, the Soviet Union, and the Free French (the exile govt. in England led by Charles de Gaulle) |
| The Final Solution for European Jews was formalized at this meeting in Germany. Name the meeting, as well as the year in which this meeting took place. | the Wannsee Conference, in January 1942 |
| Arguably the most notorious site of the Holocaust, this concentration camp in Poland served as both an extermination and labor camp. | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| The siege of this city marked the furthest eastern advance of the German Army. Name this city, and the time frame in which this siege took place. | Stalingrad, from August 1942-June 1943. |
| The Allies had followed this grand strategy in conducting the war, in which they had to prioritize the locations of their campaign efforts. Briefly, what was the strategy called? | the "Europe First" strategy--after taking care of Europe, all forces would be thrown to the Pacific Theater of action. |
| This country suffered more than all of the other combatants in World War II combined. | the USSR |
| These were the trials conducted by the Allies in the fall of 1945, and used the Nazis' own documents to reveal terrible crimes of human rights abuses and genocide. | the Nuremberg Trials |
| This was the process, after the war, in which German civilians were forced to view the death camps and acknowledge a degree of collective guilt and responsibility. | denazification |
