Deck 20: World War II

Question 1

Francisco Franco came to power in ________ in the 1930s.

A) Spain
B) Italy
C) Brazil
D) Argentina

Answer 1

Spain

Question 2

Which of these is the name often given to the Roma who died in large numbers in German concentration camps?

A) gypsies
B) disabled people
C) Jews
D) Slavs

Answer 2

gypsies

Question 3

The creator of Guernica was ________.

A) T.S. Eliot
B) Peter Eisenman
C) Georges Braque
D) Pablo Picasso

Answer 3

Pablo Picasso

Question 4

The 5:5:3 ration decided at a conference held in Washington,D.C.in 1921 concerned ________.

A) industrial power
B) exchange rates
C) refinancing war debts
D) naval power

Question 5

Adolph Hitler became the leader of ________ in 1933.

A) Austria
B) Germany
C) Belgium
D) Russia

Question 6

Japanese zaibatsus are ________.

A) monopolies
B) business conglomerates
C) warrior elites
D) government-business alliances

Question 7

Which of these men wrote Indian Home Rule?

A) B.J. Tilak
B) Elie Wiesel
C) Mohandas Gandhi
D) Albert Camus

Question 8

The attack on Pearl Harbor brought ________ into World War II.

A) Japan
B) China
C) Great Britain
D) the United States

Question 9

Which of these was the only Asian nation among the Five Great Powers at the Paris peace conference in 1919?

A) China
B) Korea
C) Japan
D) India

Question 10

British troops in North Africa were led by ________.

A) Bernard Montgomery
B) Dwight Eisenhower
C) Winston Churchill
D) Douglas MacArthur

Question 11

In totalitarianism,the ________ is placed above all.

A) state
B) dictator
C) individual
D) general will

Question 12

The American president at the outbreak of World War II was ________.

A) Harry Truman
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Dwight Eisenhower
D) Franklin Roosevelt

Question 13

The D-Day landing occurred in ________.

A) Italy
B) Spain
C) France
D) Greece

Question 14

Which of these countries were combined by the Anschluss?

A) Austria and Hungary
B) Germany and Austria
C) Serbia and Austria
D) Belgium and the Netherlands

Question 15

Robert Oppenheimer is best known for his work ________.

A) in developing radar
B) creating the United Nations
C) on submarines
D) on the atomic bomb

Question 16

Josip Broz (Tito)led ________ during and after World War II.

A) Serbia
B) Yugoslavia
C) Austria
D) Hungary

Question 17

The author of The Second Sex was ________.

A) Betty Friedan
B) Margaret Sanger
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Simone de Beauvoir

Question 18

The author of "The Waste Land" was ________.

A) Albert Camus
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Sigmund Freud

Question 19

The leader of Italy for most of the period between the two world wars was ________.

A) Giuseppe Mazzini
B) Benito Mussolini
C) Victor Emmanuel
D) Francisco Franco

Question 20

When Hitler called for Lebensraum,he was calling for German ________.

A) rearmament
B) unity
C) economic stability
D) expansion

Question 21

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is located in ________.

A) Auschwitz
B) New York City
C) Vienna
D) Berlin

Question 22

The opening phase of World War II was ________ the opening phase of World War I.

A) similar to
B) nearly identical to
C) very different from
D) the exact opposite of

Question 23

Roughly ________ soldiers were killed in World War II.

A) 20 million
B) 2 million
C) 200,000
D) 20,000

Question 24

Which of these was glorified by fascism?

A) toleration
B) the League of Nations
C) strength
D) democracy

Question 25

The 5:5:3 ration agreed upon in Washington,D.C.in 1921 indicates that ________.

A) Britain was losing its naval superiority
B) the Allied Powers were at odds
C) Japan had become a world power
D) Japanese industrialization was falling behind

Question 26

The outcome of Japan's seizure of Manchuria ________ the League of Nations.

A) added greatly to the prestige of
B) led to the foundation of
C) revealed the weakness
D) ended

Question 27

Looking at the map "World War II in Europe," fighting occurred ________.

A) primarily in Western Europe
B) over most of northern Europe
C) primarily in Germany
D) only in the Allied nations

Question 28

Which of these best characterizes D-Day in the context of World War II?

A) the beginning of the end of the war in Europe
B) the end of the war
C) the end of the war in Europe
D) the opening phase of the war in Europe

Question 29

At the height of its power in the 1940s,Japan ________.

A) ruled all of Asia
B) controlled most of east Asia
C) ruled all of east Asia
D) expanded mainly to the north

Question 30

The Anti-Comintern Pact was motivated primarily because the signatories ________.

A) were historical allies
B) had a common enemy
C) shared a religious ideology
D) were opposed to Italy

Question 31

In what sense was the Spanish Civil War a "dress rehearsal" for World War II?

A) Japan entered on the side of Germany.
B) Germany invaded Spain.
C) Both were won by the Allies.
D) The same ideology motivated both.

Question 32

The Kellogg-Briand Pact indicated ________ goals as the League of Nations.

A) roughly the same
B) the opposite
C) identical
D) different

Question 33

Which of these played a large role in motivating German and Italian fascism?

A) neocolonialism
B) revenge against the Allied Powers
C) the desire to industrialize
D) dissatisfaction with the outcome of World War I

Question 34

The United Nations was chartered in ________.

A) 1918
B) 1929
C) 1954
D) 1945

Question 35

Hitler was motivated above all by ________.

A) socialism
B) nationalism
C) communism
D) Christianity

Question 36

The Terror House museum is in ________.

A) Poland
B) Germany
C) Hungary
D) Austria

Question 37

Mussolini came to power in Italy ________.

A) by force
B) legitimately
C) through trickery
D) through a variety of extralegal means

Question 38

Japan's dual economy brought together ________.

A) foreign and domestic manufacturing
B) exports and imports
C) the old and the new
D) information technology and zaibatsus

Question 39

Which of these men headed the Tokyo Tribunal held from 1946 to 1948?

A) Emperor Hirohito
B) Douglas MacArthur
C) Dwight Eisenhower
D) Bernard Montgomery

Question 40

Hitler came to power ________.

A) legitimately
B) through a putsch
C) by using his private army
D) by manipulating elections

Question 41

Like World War I,________ was a key factor leading up to World War II.

A) the end of empires
B) nationalism
C) economic collapse
D) German aggression

Question 42

What commonalities led to the emergence of fascism in different countries?

Question 43

Compare responses to World War II.How have they attempted to deal with the legacy of the war?

Question 44

How did the causes,scope,and results of World War I and World War II differ?

Question 45

How did the League of Nations and the United Nations differ?

Question 46

Consider two different groups that were affected differently by World War II and compare their experiences.

Question 47

A criticism common to all of the memorial museums and exhibitions is that they all ________.

A) deal only with German war crimes
B) do not consider the faults of the victors
C) are strongly biased
D) focus on Jewish suffering

Question 48

Looking at the table "Armaments Production of the Power" which of these is true?

A) Only the Allies were able to significantly increase their production.
B) Britain doubled its production.
C) American production increased the most.
D) Japan increased its production tenfold.

Question 49

The largest problem facing Europe following World War II was ________.

A) war damage
B) dealing with war crimes
C) dealing with the former Ottoman Empire
D) displaced persons

Question 50

The experience of World War II ________ women's lives in combatant nations.

A) immediately changed
B) had long-term impacts on
C) had no impacts on
D) had only temporary impacts on

Question 51

The excerpts from Indian Home Rule and "The Wasteland" illustrate a mood of ________.

A) dissatisfaction with Western democracy
B) disillusionment
C) optimism
D) hostility towards Western culture

Question 52

The United Nations is best seen as ________.

A) a direct result of World War II
B) an indictment of the Kellogg-Brian Pact
C) the first global forum
D) dominated by Western Europe

Question 53

Both Germany and Italy sought ________ in the period leading up to World War II.

A) to expand
B) revenge for defeat in World War I
C) to unify
D) peace

Question 54

Total war differs from earlier types of war because ________ in total war.

A) entire populations are involved
B) war is more devastating
C) weapons of mass destruction are used
D) empires become enmeshed

Question 55

The Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals were intended primarily to be ________.

A) healing
B) punitive
C) symbols
D) deterrents