History 1A S1
What event took place on 17 September 1939?
Soviet Invasion of Poland
Signing of Anti-Comitern Pact
Operation Sealion
Miracle of Dunkirk
What were the Neutrality Acts?
Britain's attempt to stay out of the war in 1938
Legislation that prohibited the US from providing aid to any belligerents
Legislation that prohibited the US from providing aid to any invading forces
Legislation that prohibited the US from providing aid to any of the axis powers
What was the Cash and Carry bill?
Legislation which allowed for the creation of a wartime currency in Britain
A bill that forced Allied nations to pay any existing debts to the US before they would approve any further loans
A policy passed by congress that approved monetary loans to countries that had not paid their wartime debts
Policy requested by Roosevelt that replaced the neutrality acts and allowed US the sale of material to belligerents under certain conditions
What were the Destroyers for Bases agreement?
An agreement between the US and Britain where 50 US destroyers were traded for land rights on British possessions
An agreement between the US and China where 50 US destroyers were traded for land rights on Chinese possessions
An agreement between the Italy and Germany where 50 Italian destroyers were traded for land rights on German possessions
An agreement between the US and Britain where 50 US destroyers were traded for land rights on British possessions
Who headed Aktion T-4?
Bouhler
Brandt
Bouhler and Brandt
Bouhler and Todt
What was Aktion T-4?
Program of forced Euthanasia in Nazi Germany
Germany's Nuclear Program
Germany's Destroyer Program
Germany's Luftwaffe Development Program
What were Gauleiters?
German Executioners
Regional Nazi Party Leaders
Einsatzgruppen Commanders
Jewish Russian Leaders
What was the name of the first major battle fought in the Sino-Japanese war, in August to November 1937?
What kind of warfare did both China and Japan rely on in WW2
Hand to Hand
Conventional
Short Order
Warfare of the 42 Horses and the Rising Sun with the Lotus Jade Crown
What was the name of the river whose dikes were destroyed in June 1938 (the biggest act of environmental warfare in history)?
What was the Lend-Lease program?
Programme under which US lend money to Allied nations in return for base leases
The program under which the Britain supplied allied nations with food and materials from 1941 to 1945
The program under which the US supplied allied nations with food and materials from 1941 to 1945
The program under which the US supplied Britain with food and materials from 1941 to 1945
What was the most common form of entertainment or escape for people on the Home front in Britain and Germany?
Movies
Theatre
Gambling
Drinking
Where were 1,523 industrial enterprises moved between July and November 1941?
Volga
Siberia
Asia
All of the Above
What/Who was Rasputisa?
The Russian season in October of where all the roads turned to mud
The Italian chief of staff
A famous German destroyer
One of the destroyers bombed in Pearl Harbour
What was the Barbarossa Jurisdiction Decree?
A decree that freed German soldiers from any kind of persecution for war crimes committed in the Soviet Union except for sexual misdeeds
A decree issued by Hitler that Moscow was the primary reason for the invasion of Russia
A decree which stated that Ukraine was under German rule
A decree which allowed all German commanders to shoot Russian political persons without a trial
What was the Commissar Order
An order that German commissars were to enter duma and destroy all villages
An order that allowed for the operation of the einsatzgruppen
An order that forbade Russian soldiers from fleeing the scene of battle
An order that required that upon capture, political commissars be promptly shot
What percentage of the 140 German divisions in the east was shown to have carried out the Commissar Order?
Of the first 3.3 million Soviet POWs captured in the war over 60 per cent had died by which month and year?
How many Soviet Jews did the Einsatzgruppen (together with the German Order Police and Wehrmacht) kill over the course of 1941?
What was the scorched earth policy?
Wehrmacht policy of burning farms, buildings and other Russian structures
Russian policy of burning farms, crops and structures to prevent the Germans getting access to them
Italian bombing policy from 1941 - 1942
British bombing policy in Germany from 1940 - 1941
What did the Hull Note demand?
That Germany be restricted to the production of no more than 100,000 tonnes of ship hulls per year
That Japan leave the Tripartite pact and withdraw all troops from Indochina and China
That Russian Chief of Staff Vladmir Hullotov be removed from his position and executed
That China stop purchasing ship hulls from German overstock
What was the Tangku Truce?
Truce between Japanese and Chinese forces in Tangku
Truce between Tangku and Japanese forces in Manchuria
Cease fire between China and Japan formally ending the Japanese invasion of Manchuria
What was the name of the series of mass executions that the NKVD carried out during the invasion of Poland in 1940?
What was the named of the period between the British/French declaration of war and 10th may 1940 known as?
The Cold War
The Intermission
The Deathless War
The Phoney War
Nazi propaganda claimed that the invasion of Poland was to stop attacks on ethnic Germans in the polish corridor but what was Hitlers real objective?
What was the name of the SS Plan from 1940 in which tens of millions of people would be ethnically cleansed in the east?
What was the Open Door Policy
Policy of free trade between all allied countries under Britain's continental blockade
Policy established by the US to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis and to ensure that one European country was not able to gain total control of an area in China.
Greek policy of allowed all refugees to enter the Greece
Policy of Russian support for China in weapons, troops and armaments
What was the ratio fixed at the Washington Naval Conference for the US, Britain and Japan?
5:5:3
2:2:2
3:3:1
3:2:1
What was the Maginot Line?
A line of fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations on the French-Austrain border
A line of fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations on the French-English border
A line of fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations on the French-German border
A line of fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations on the French-Italian border
Which British Colonial possession, nicknamed the 'Gibraltar of the East', fell to the Japanese on February 15 1942?
Which of these Japanese atrocities occurred in the Phillipines, 1942
Sandakan Death March
Bataan Death March
Rape of Nanking
Bangka Island Massacre
What role did General Douglas MacArthur perform?
Commander of the US Army Forces in the Far West
Commander of the British Air Arm
Australian Chief of Staff 1930-1935
Field Marshall of the Philippine Army
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