Deck 27: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War Ii

Question 1

define the following term:
Lebensraum

Answer 1

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Question 2

When and why did the initiative in World War II pass out of Germany's hands?

Answer 2

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Question 3

define the following term:
Anglo-German Naval Pact

Answer 3

Answers may vary.

Question 4

define the following term:
Aryans

Question 5

What political, economic, and social motives account for Japanese aggression in the 1930s and 1940s?

Question 6

define the following term:
Neville Chamberlain

Question 7

How did the Nazis attempt to establish a New Order in Europe after their military victories? What were the results of their efforts?

Question 8

How important was the United States in determining the outcome of the war in Europe?

Question 9

define the following term:
appeasement

Question 10

define the following term:
"diplomatic revolution"

Question 11

Compare and contrast the war in Europe with the war in the Pacific. What ideas about race and ethnicity informed both conflicts?

Question 12

define the following term:
Rome-Berlin Axis

Question 13

define the following term:
Sudetenland

Question 14

How did Germany's strategy in World War II differ from that of World War I? In what ways did Germany's strategic failures in World War I shape its plans for the prosecution of World War II?

Question 15

Did the outcome of World War II guarantee that a "cold war" would occur? Why or why not?

Question 16

What were Hitler's major goals and policies from 1933 to 1939? How did other European powers respond to those goals and policies, and why did they lead to war?

Question 17

define the following term:
Rhineland

Question 18

Compare the home fronts of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Germany. What differences and similarities do you find? How did the organization of each home front affect the outcome of the war?

Question 19

Who bears responsibility for the enactment of the "Final Solution"?

Question 20

How do you account for the early successes of the Germans from 1939 to 1941? To what degree did Blitzkrieg play a role in these successes?

Question 21

define the following term:
Pearl Harbor

Question 22

define the following term:
"peace for our time"

Question 23

define the following term:
Winston Churchill

Question 24

define the following term:
unconditional surrender

Question 25

define the following term:
1939 nonaggression pact

Question 26

define the following term:
panzer divisions

Question 27

define the following term:
blitzkrieg

Question 28

define the following term:
Maginot Line

Question 29

define the following term:
Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps

Question 30

define the following term:
"phony war"

Question 31

define the following term:
Manchukuo

Question 32

define the following term:
"miracle of Dunkirk"

Question 33

define the following term:
Grand Alliance

Question 34

define the following term:
Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Question 35

define the following term:
Stalingrad

Question 36

define the following term:
Munich Conference

Question 37

define the following term:
Battle of Britain

Question 38

define the following term:
Battle of Midway

Question 39

define the following term:
Battle of Kursk

Question 40

define the following term:
Normandy

Question 41

define the following term:
Great Patriotic War

Question 42

define the following term:
Nazi New Order

Question 43

define the following term:
Wannsee Conference

Question 44

define the following term:
Claus von Stauffenberg

Question 45

define the following term:
Luftwaffe

Question 46

define the following term:
Arthur Harris

Question 47

define the following term:
Einsatzgruppen

Question 48

define the following term:
gas chambers

Question 49

define the following term:
Dresden

Question 50

define the following term:
"land girls"

Question 51

define the following term:
Final Solution

Question 52

define the following term:
"Dig for Victory"

Question 53

define the following term:
Madagascar Plan

Question 54

define the following term:
Allied Strategic Bombing Survey

Question 55

define the following term:
Albert Speer

Question 56

define the following term:
bushido and kamikaze

Question 57

define the following term:
Auschwitz

Question 58

define the following term:
the Holocaust

Question 59

define the following term:
the Blitz

Question 60

define the following term:
"Night Witches"

Question 61

At the Munich Conference in 1938, Hitler demanded the right to annex the German-speaking area of

A)Poland.
B)Austria.
C)Russia.
D)Czechoslovakia.
E)Belgium.

Question 62

Immediately following the fall of Poland

A)France and Britain declared war and started an offensive against Germany.
B)France and Britain decided to continue to appease Hitler.
C)France and Britain declared war, but remained relatively inactive militarily.
D)Germany turned on its Russian allies.
E)France was invaded by Franco's Spain.

Question 63

Integral to Germany's plans for blitzkrieg was

A)tanks.
B)mobile artillery.
C)mechanized infantry.
D)air power.
E)all of the above.

Question 64

Hitler settled on acquiring German Lebensraum in the east in Russian territory in part because of his racist belief that

A)the Slavs were an "inferior" people now governed by impotent Jews among the Bolsheviks and worthy of enslavement.
B)the weakened Aryan "race" could only be rejuvenated and made better through war against the ancient enemies of the Fatherland.
C)the Anglo-Saxons were a decadent race and would never come to the aid of eastern Europeans.
D)Germany must conquer all of Europe before the great American race dominated the globe.
E)there would be no opposition to the German takeover of Russia territory as the inferior Slavs would eagerly welcome their racial superiors.

Question 65

define the following term:
Big Three

Question 66

Hitler's "Diplomatic Revolution" between 1933 and 1936 included all of the following except

A)the Anglo-German Naval Pact of 1935.
B)withdrawing from the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1933.
C)publicly announcing the creation of a new air force in 1935.
D)seizing leadership of the League of Nations in 1933.
E)introducing a military draft that would expand Germany's army from 100,000 to 550,000 troops.

Question 67

Hitler took Poland in 1939

A)despite interference by the Soviet Union.
B)in a long protracted struggle that cost Germany dearly.
C)upon Poland's request for a restructured government.
D)using "lightning war" tactics and with active support from Joseph Stalin.
E)peacefully, with the reluctant acquiescence of Britain and France.

Question 68

define the following term:
"an iron curtain"

Question 69

define the following term:
Cold War

Question 70

define the following term:
"displaced persons"

Question 71

define the following term:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 72

Which one of the following did not occur after Hitler's unilateral 1935 announcement of German rearmament?

A)France condemned Germany and warned against future aggression.
B)Britain condemned Germany and warned against future aggression.
C)Italy praised Germany and counseled more such behavior in the future.
D)Britain signed the Anglo-German Naval Pact later in the year, acquiescing to Hitler's growing military might.
E)The British began to appease Hitler.

Question 73

define the following term:
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 74

define the following term:
Potsdam

Question 75

Among the factors that led to World War II was

A)the return of the United States to its traditional isolationism after World War I.
B)the failure of Britain and France to strongly oppose flagrant German violations of the Versailles treaty.
C)the inability of the small, weak successor states to Austria-Hungary to oppose Germany.
D)the failure of efforts of collective security such as the League of Nations and treaties.
E)all of the above.

Question 76

British statesmen who followed a policy of appeasement believed Germany served as a powerful bulwark against

A)the French Republic.
B)Fascist Italy.
C)Soviet communism.
D)Franco's Spain.
E)nationalism in the Balkans.

Question 77

define the following term:
Manhattan Project

Question 78

The idea of Lebensraum maintained that

A)a nation's power depended on the amount and kind of land it occupied.
B)only large populations could maintain a powerful country.
C)authority must be dictated from a powerful leader.
D)air power was the key to a successful military.
E)a pure race was necessary for national survival.

Question 79

define the following term:
Tehran and Yalta

Question 80

Hitler's first act of aggression took place in 1936 when the Germans occupied

A)Austria.
B)Sudetenland.
C)Bavaria.
D)Rhineland.
E)East Tyrol.