Deck 11: The Protestant and Catholic Reformations

Question 1

The first two countries to declare war on Germany in September 1939 were:

A) the Soviet Union
B) the United States
C) Britain
D) France

Answer 1

Britain
France

Question 2

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, he attacked from the:

A) north
B) south
C) west
D) east

Answer 2

east

Question 3

The Nazi elite guard whose name meant "protective squadron" was the:

A) SS
B) SA
C) Gestapo
D) Luftwaffe

Answer 3

SS

Question 4

The Battle of Britain was fought primarily:

A) on land
B) at sea
C) on land and at sea
D) in the air

Question 5

What city suffered from an intense wave of aerial attacks known as the Blitz?

A) Paris
B) Moscow
C) London
D) Berlin

Question 6

The first significant victory for the United States over Japan in the Pacific theater was:

A) the Battle of Midway
B) the Battle of Coral Sea
C) the Battle of Leyte Gulf
D) the Battle of Okinawa

Question 7

At the end of the war, whom did Hitler blame for the German defeat?

A) the German people
B) the German military
C) himself
D) the Jews

Question 8

KV1 and T34 battle tanks were important weapons belonging to:

A) Japan
B) Germany
C) the United States
D) the Soviet Union

Question 9

The atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, may have killed as many as 140,000 people. Robert Oppenheimer later stated that the scientists who worked on the bomb estimated that it would kill:

A) 100,000 people
B) 50,000 people
C) 20,000 people
D) 5,000 people

Question 10

Evidence exists to suggest that ordinary Germans:

A) had some knowledge of the Nazi death camps well before the end of World War II
B) had no knowledge of the Nazi death camps until the end of World War II
C) had full knowledge of the Nazi death camps before the end of World War II
D) had little knowledge of the Nazi death camps before the end of World War II

Question 11

Who became British prime minister after the general election that took place at the end of World War II?

A) Anthony Eden
B) Clement Attlee
C) Winston Churchill
D) Lord Mountbatten

Question 12

About 135,000 civilian casualties were caused by bombing in the final months of the war in:

A) Paris
B) Dresden
C) London
D) Moscow

Question 13

Of the top Nazi leaders, the only one who did not commit suicide before the end of the war was:

A) Adolf Hitler
B) Heinrich Himmler
C) Joseph Goebbels
D) Herman Goering

Question 14

After World War II, the Japanese emperor, Hirohito:

A) was put to death for his role in causing World War II
B) was forced to go into exile for his role in causing World War II
C) remained emperor of Japan and was not blamed for leading the country into war
D) was allowed to remain in Japan but was forced to step down as emperor

Question 15

What two Scandinavian countries were invaded, respectively, by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in 1940?

Question 16

Hitler indicated that his desire for ________________, or "living space," was behind his expansionist policy to the east.

Question 17

Once the United States entered the war in 1941, where was the main theater of the war between the Allies and Germany in the West before 1943?

Question 18

Why was India partitioned into two separate countries after World War II?

Question 19

Who were the five members of the United Nations Security Council when it was first established?

Question 20

The Soviet Union sponsored the formation of an international Communist organization known as the _________________, dedicated to supporting Communist parties even in noncommunist countries.

Question 21

Compare the beginning of World War II to the beginning of World War I. Are there notable similarities? Are there significant differences? What impact did the First World War have on the beginning of the Second? Could anything have been done to prevent the Second World War?

Question 22

What impact did World War II have on the home fronts of the various combatants? Do you think that the psychological and physical consequences of World War II were likely to have been equal to or greater than those of World War I? Explain.