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

Question 1

Talk about :
Rhineland

Answer 1

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Question 2

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?

Answer 2

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Question 3

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?

Answer 3

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Question 4

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

Question 5

Talk about :
appeasement

Question 6

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 7

Talk about :
"diplomatic revolution"

Question 8

Talk about :
Aryans

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

Talk about :
Sudetenland

Question 13

Talk about :
Lebensraum

Question 14

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 15

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

Question 16

Talk about :
Anglo-German Naval Pact

Question 17

Talk about :
Rome-Berlin Axis

Question 18

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

Question 19

Talk about :
Neville Chamberlain

Question 20

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

Question 21

Talk about :
1939 nonaggression pact

Question 22

Talk about :
"peace for our time"

Question 23

Talk about :
Maginot Line

Question 24

Talk about :
Stalingrad

Question 25

Talk about :
Manchukuo

Question 26

Talk about :
Winston Churchill

Question 27

Talk about :
panzer divisions

Question 28

Talk about :
"phony war"

Question 29

Talk about :
Grand Alliance

Question 30

Talk about :
unconditional surrender

Question 31

Talk about :
Normandy

Question 32

Talk about :
Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Question 33

Talk about :
"miracle of Dunkirk"

Question 34

Talk about :
Battle of Midway

Question 35

Talk about :
Munich Conference

Question 36

Talk about :
Pearl Harbor

Question 37

Talk about :
blitzkrieg

Question 38

Talk about :
Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps

Question 39

Talk about :
Battle of Kursk

Question 40

Talk about :
Battle of Britain

Question 41

Talk about :
"Night Witches"

Question 42

Talk about :
Allied Strategic Bombing Survey

Question 43

Talk about :
Luftwaffe

Question 44

Talk about :
"land girls"

Question 45

Talk about :
Nazi New Order

Question 46

Talk about :
Madagascar Plan

Question 47

Talk about :
the Holocaust

Question 48

Talk about :
Final Solution

Question 49

Talk about :
bushido and kamikaze

Question 50

Talk about :
gas chambers

Question 51

Talk about :
"Dig for Victory"

Question 52

Talk about :
Dresden

Question 53

Talk about :
Albert Speer

Question 54

Talk about :
Claus von Stauffenberg

Question 55

Talk about :
Einsatzgruppen

Question 56

Talk about :
Wannsee Conference

Question 57

Talk about :
the Blitz

Question 58

Talk about :
Auschwitz

Question 59

Talk about :
Great Patriotic War

Question 60

Talk about :
Arthur Harris

Question 61

Talk about :
Manhattan Project

Question 62

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 63

Talk about :
"an iron curtain"

Question 64

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 65

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 66

Talk about :
Potsdam

Question 67

Talk about :
Big Three

Question 68

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 69

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 70

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.

Question 71

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 72

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 73

Talk about :
Cold War

Question 74

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 75

Talk about :
Tehran and Yalta

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

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 78

Talk about :
"displaced persons"

Question 79

Talk about :
Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 80

Talk about :
J. Robert Oppenheimer