WWII Final test (Actual Test with 100% verified answers)

German 88mm flak gun correct answers This was originally a German anti aircraft gun, but the Germans found that it was also an excellent anti tank gun Ardennes correct answers The forest were the army of Nazi Germany would invade France and Belgium at the beginning of WWII Erwin Rommel correct answers A German Field Marshall during WWII. He was known as the "Desert Fox" to his adversaries. He was the leader of the German Afrika Korps during the North African campaigns. He would be transferred to Europe to help set up the Nazi defenses before D-Day, and would be involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler, and would be forced to commit suicide. Gestapo correct answers The Nazi secret police. They were tasked with finding people that were against the Nazi government. This included all of the "undesirables" such as Jews and Gypsies, and the people that supported them. Adolf Hitler correct answers Leader of the Nazi Third Reich. He was born in Austria, and had early ambitions to be an artist. He was denied his dream by the Vienna Art Academy. He then fought in WWI in the German Army. He was wounded twice in the war. After the war he became a member of the National Socialist Workers Party. He claims to have been the 7th member. He would try and take control over his state in the 1922. He failed and was thrown in jail where he would write the book Mien Kampf. He would ascend to power as the Chancellor in 1933. He would start taking over ethnically German areas in 1934. This would lead to the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the start of WWII. He is responsible for at least 6 million deaths due to concentration camps, and millions more civilians and soldiers throughout Europe. Hitler Jugend correct answers The Hitler Youth. Neely insisted on using the German word on the study sheet. Youth =Jugend. These youth were fanatically loyal to Hitler after growing up in the Nazi state and hearing and believing all of the propaganda. They would be some of the last defenders of Hitler at the end of the war, often fighting to the death. It was important for Hitler to control the youth because they represented Germany's future.