Round 1 Ultimate Question Round 2 Winston Churchill

Round 1 Ultimate Question Round 2 Winston Churchill Franklin Roosevelt Charles de Gaulle

WWII Road to War Holocaust $100 $200 $200 $300 $300 $400 $400 $500 $500 Nazi Germany Lenin Stalin $100 $200

$100 In this 1938 event, the Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues and businesses and beat up and arrested many Jews. Scoreboard Answer

$100 Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) Scoreboard

$200 This 1934 event resulted in Hitler’s destruction of the S. A. (at the request of the German military). Scoreboard Answer

$200 “Night of Long Knives” Scoreboard

$300 This idea from Mein Kampf called for Germany to conquer lands in eastern Europe to expand Germany’s empire. Scoreboard Answer

$300 “lebensraum” (“living space”) Scoreboard

$400 These laws gave Hitler dictatorial power in Germany beginning in 1934. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Enabling Acts Scoreboard

$500 These laws, beginning in 1935, stripped Jews of their citizenship and severely discriminated against all Jewish people. Scoreboard Answer

$500 Nuremburg Laws Scoreboard

$100 Lenin reluctantly allowed some capitalistic measures in the early 1920 s when he instituted this program. Scoreboard Answer

$100 NEP (New Economic Policy) Scoreboard

$200 During the Russian Civil War, this became the first type of communism practiced in the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1920. Scoreboard Answer

$200 war communism Scoreboard

$300 Lenin oppressed his opponents through the use of this secret police organization. Scoreboard Answer

$300 Cheka Scoreboard

$400 This leader of the Red Army had more philosophically in common with Lenin than did Stalin. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Leon Trotsky Scoreboard

$500 This 20 th-century political philosophy claims a communist society must first be controlled by a dictatorship of a small group of professional revolutionary elites. Scoreboard Answer

$500 Marxist. Leninism Scoreboard

$100 In order to catch up to the West industrially, Stalin instituted the first of these in 1928. Scoreboard Answer

$100 Five-Year Plans Scoreboard

$200 This was Stalin’s program to communize the countryside and increase agricultural productivity. Scoreboard Answer

$200 collectivization Scoreboard

$300 Stalin staged these events in the 1930 s to rid his government of Old Bolsheviks. Scoreboard Answer

$300 show trials or purges Scoreboard

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$400 Millions of Soviet citizens died in these Soviet camps. Scoreboard Answer

$400 gulags Scoreboard

$500 Unlike Trotsky who believed in an immediate international communist revolution, Stalin believed in this policy by the mid 1920 s. Scoreboard Answer

$500 “Socialism in One Country” Scoreboard

$100 This 1942 -43 battle was the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe. Scoreboard Answer

$100 Stalingrad Scoreboard

$200 This June, 1944 battle was the turning point of the war in western Europe. Scoreboard Answer

$200 D-Day (invasion of Normandy) Scoreboard

$300 This 1945 war-time conference stated that Germany would be divided into four zones and that a United Nations would be created. Scoreboard Answer

$300 Yalta Conference Scoreboard

$400 This August, 1939 agreement opened the way for Germany’s invasion of Poland the division of that country with the USSR. Scoreboard Answer

$400 German-Soviet Non -Aggression Pact? Scoreboard

$500 This 1938 conference represented the height of appeasement and gave part of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Scoreboard Answer

$500 Munich Conference Scoreboard

$100 This economic catastrophe of the late 20 s and early 30 s became a major cause for the rise of fascism in Germany and Japan. Scoreboard Answer

$100 Great Depression Scoreboard

$200 This international organization failed in its mission of collective security to prevent another World War. Scoreboard Answer

$200 League of Nations Scoreboard

$300 Germany reoccupied this German region in 1936 in direct violation of the Versailles Treaty. Scoreboard Answer

$300 Rhineland Scoreboard

$400 This German term refers to Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Anschluss Scoreboard

$500 In 1939, Hitler demanded that this city in the Polish Corridor become a “free city” with clear access to Germany via rail. Scoreboard Answer

$500 Danzig Scoreboard

$100 This Nazi death camp in Poland is the most notorious as nearly one million Jews died there. Scoreboard Answer

$100 Auschwitz Scoreboard

$200 Prior to the construction of death camps, Jews were herded into these sealed districts in Polish cities. Scoreboard Answer

$200 What are ghettos? Scoreboard

$300 This 1941 meeting resulted in the “Final Solution” to the Jewish question. Scoreboard Answer

$300 Wannsee Conference Scoreboard

$400 This Nazi organization headed by Heinrich Himmler oversaw the Holocaust. Scoreboard Answer

$400 SS Scoreboard

$500 In addition to six million others who died in the Holocaust, this percentage of European Jews perished in the Holocaust. Scoreboard Answer

$500 two-thirds Scoreboard

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$200 This group of paramilitary thugs provided the muscle for Mussolini’s rise to power. Scoreboard Answer

$200 Black Shirts Scoreboard

$400 In 1935, Mussolini ordered the invasion of this African nation as payback for a pre-WWI defeat. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Ethiopia Scoreboard

$600 This 1922 event resulted in Mussolini taking power in the Kingdom of Italy. Scoreboard Answer

$600 March on Rome Scoreboard

$800 In this 1929 deal, Mussolini gave the Vatican sovereignty while the pope agreed to stay largely out of Italy’s political matters. Scoreboard Answer

$800 Lateran Pact Scoreboard

$1000 Mussolini organized this type of fascist state, where various economic interests in the country function collectively for the benefit of the state. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 corporate state Scoreboard

$200 Hitler believed that this race was superior to all others. Scoreboard Answer

$200 Aryan Scoreboard

$400 This 1933 event in Germany gave Hitler an excuse to destroy the communist party and arrest its leaders. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Reichstag fire Scoreboard

$600 This member of Hitler’s inner circle was the Nazi propaganda minister who was determined to make the Führer look like a “god. ” Scoreboard Answer

$600 Joseph Goebbels Scoreboard

$800 This member of Hitler’s inner circle eventually became the leader of the German Luftwaffe (air force). Scoreboard Answer

$800 Hermann Göring Scoreboard

$1000 This filmmaker contributed to the larger-than-life image of Hitler through her film Triumph of the Will. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 Leni Riefenstahl Scoreboard

$200 These relatively wealthy peasants became targets of Stalin’s wrath as they resisted collectivization. Scoreboard Answer

$200 Kulaks Scoreboard

$400 This city became the new capital of Russia after the Russian Revolution. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Moscow Scoreboard

$600 This phrase represents Stalin’s belief in brutal topdown rule during the Five. Year Plans. Scoreboard Answer

$600 “Revolution from Above” Scoreboard

$800 This novel by George Orwell satirized the Russian Revolution and Stalinist rule. Scoreboard Answer

$800 Animal Farm Scoreboard

$1000 Stalin conquered these three Baltic states shortly after the beginning of World War II. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Scoreboard

$200 This technological innovation enabled the Royal Air Force’s victory over the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. Scoreboard Answer

$200 radar Scoreboard

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$400 This new type of German warfare in WWII allowed it to defeat its enemies quickly. Scoreboard Answer

$400 blitzkrieg Scoreboard

$600 The Allies founded this international organization in 1945 in the hopes of promoting peace after World War II. Scoreboard Answer

$600 United Nations Scoreboard

$800 Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain headed this new puppet state in the German empire beginning in 1940. Scoreboard Answer

$800 Vichy France Scoreboard

$1000 This 1941 document proclaimed the Allies would not fight for territorial conquest but rather to promote peace through a new international organization. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 Atlantic Charter Scoreboard

$200 The United States entered World War II when Japan attacked this target. Scoreboard Answer

$200 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Scoreboard

$400 On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on this Japanese city. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Hiroshima Scoreboard

$600 This 1942 battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific. Scoreboard Answer

$600 Midway Scoreboard

$800 This American strategy in the Pacific war saw U. S. forces conquer strategic islands northwards toward Japan. Scoreboard Answer

$800 Island Hopping Scoreboard

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$1000 This July 1945 wartime conference of the “Big Three” established that Germany would be de-Nazified while it demanded unconditional surrender from Japan. Scoreboard Answer

$1000 Potsdam Conference Scoreboard

$200 This was the world’s first freeway system, built in Germany during Hitler’s rule in the 1930 s. Scoreboard Answer

$200 Autobahn Scoreboard

$400 This fascist rebel took control of Spain in the mid -1930 s with the military aid of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Scoreboard Answer

$400 Francisco Franco Scoreboard

$600 This general became the leader of the “Free French” after France was defeated in June, 1940. Scoreboard Answer

$600 Charles de Gaulle Scoreboard

$800 This 1928 peace agreement proclaimed “war is illegal, ” thus giving Europeans a false sense of security. Scoreboard Answer

$800 Kellogg-Briand Pact Scoreboard

$1000 This 1933 economic summit ended unsuccessfully when the U. S. undermined it. Hitler was very encouraged! Scoreboard Answer

$1000 London Economic Conference Scoreboard

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