Transcript Review Jeopardy: World War II

Nazi
Germany
Road to
WWII
WWII
Battles
The
Holocaust
People &
Places
Vocabulary
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Final Jeopardy!
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The Great Depression
Categories
This world-wide economic
catastrophe created conditions
within Germany and Italy that led
to the rise of Hitler and Mussolini.
200
Treaty of Versailles
Categories
After WWI this document required
Germany to take responsibility for
the war, pay costly reparations,
give up its colonies, and led to the
rise of Hitler.
300
Fuhrer
Categories
This was Hitler’s title
as the dictator of
Germany, which meant
“absolute ruler.”
400
Reichstag
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This building was mysteriously set on fire
shortly after Hitler became Chancellor.
500
Living Space
Categories
Hitler argued that Germany
needed to expand and gain
“lebensraum” in the east,
which literally means this.
100
League of Nations
This organization
was the idea of
President Wilson
and created after
WWI to try and
keep the peace.
Categories
200
Rhineland
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Hitler sent troops to occupy this western
region of Germany in 1936.
GERMANY
300
Polish Corridor
Categories
After WWI this territory was taken away
from Germany and given to Poland.
GERMANY
POLAND
400
Austria
Categories
In 1938 Hitler annexed this country,
which was where he was born.
GERMANY
500
Non-Aggression Pact
Categories
This was the 1939 agreement between the
USSR and Nazi Germany to not attack each
other and to split up Poland.
100
D-Day
Categories
This was when the Allies landed on the beaches
of Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944 and
opened up a second front against Hitler.
200
China
Japan attacked this large Asian
country in 1937 and brutally “raped”
the city of Nanking.
Categories
300
Stalingrad
This intense urban
battle in Russia
halted the German
advance and
proved to be the
turning point in the
war between
Germany and the
USSR.
Categories
400
Barbarossa
Categories
This was the code
name for Hitler’s
surprise attack of the
Soviet Union in 1941.
500
Iwo Jima
Categories
Name the island where this historic event occurred.
100
Jews
Categories
The primary victims of the Holocaust
were from this ethnic group.
200
Genocide
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This is the attempt to destroy
an entire ethnic or religious
group of people.
300
Auschwitz
Categories
Name this massive Nazi death camp.
400
Nuremberg
Categories
The trials of
Nazi war
criminals were
held in this
German city
after WWII.
Einsatzgruppen
Categories
These were the Nazi mobile killing
squads that followed the German army
and carried out mass executions.
100
Pearl Harbor
Categories
The Japanese launched a surprise attack upon
this American naval base on December 7th, 1941.
200
Winston Churchill
Name this man and give one
significant fact about him.
Categories
300
Maginot Line
Categories
Name this French defensive structure.
400
The Gestapo
Categories
This was the branch of Hitler’s SS that
carried out brutality within Germany.
Sudetenland
500
Categories
Name this region of Czechoslovakia that was given to
Hitler because it was inhabited mostly by Germans.
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Austria
100
Blitzkrieg
Categories
This was Nazi Germany’s
quick style of warfare in
WWII, which literally
means “lightening war.”
200
Island Hopping
Categories
This was the US battle strategy
to defeat Japan in the Pacific.
No freedom of press, speech, art, religion,
radio or textbooks; propaganda.
Give THREE possible examples of
censorship.
Categories
400
Appeasement
Categories
This is giving in to an
aggressor’s demands in hopes
of keeping the peace.
500
Munich Conference
Categories
British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased
Hitler at this 1938 meeting in Germany.
Kristallnacht
This was the German name for the
“night of broken glass” when Nazis
destroyed Jewish shops in 1938.