Deck 29: The Second World War and the Origins of the Cold War, 1939 - 1949

Question 1

 The maquis was a/an

A)underground youth movement against the fascists in Germany.
B)foreign corps working to overthrow Franco in Spain.
C)secret Jewish society helping Jews escape German capture.
D)group of French underground antifascist fighters in France.
E)French collaborationist group seeking out resistance members.

Answer 1

group of French underground antifascist fighters in France.

Question 2

 England and France declared war on Germany when it attacked and invaded

A)Denmark.
B)Poland.
C)Sweden.
D)Norway.
E)the Soviet Union.

Answer 2

Poland.

Question 3

 Wake's determination to do everything she could to fight the Nazis was the result of

A)the German invasion of Poland in 1939.
B)witnessing an emotional,frenzied German youth responding to a speech by Hitler.
C)her personal observations of German public humiliation of Jews in Vienna.
D)the invasion of her homeland,Australia,by the Japanese.
E)personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War.

Answer 3

her personal observations of German public humiliation of Jews in Vienna.

Question 4

 Roosevelt committed the United States to lend lease because

A)he was against becoming involved in the war.
B)the American people would not commit to sending troops to Europe.
C)he felt Britain could defeat the Axis in Europe with American supplies of arms.
D)Americans feared Japan would declare war on the United States.
E)the United States saw that both Allies and Axis were to blame for the war.

Question 5

 The Free French Forces formed a government in exile and were led from its base in London by

A)Winston Churchill.
B)Charles de Gaulle.
C)Henri Petain.
D)Harry Truman.
E)Franklyn Roosevelt

Question 6

 The German military tactic used for the first time during World War II,was known as

A)the phony war.
B)trench warfare.
C)aerial bombing
D)fire bombing.
E)lightning warfare or blitzkrieg.

Question 7

 What was the purpose of the Phony War of England and France of 1939 - 1940?

A)To shore up their defenses. 
B)Liberate Poland.
C)Prevent Germany from invading France.
D)Protect Belgium.
E)Supply the Maginot Line.

Question 8

 Which of the following are true in regard to the attack on Pearl Harbor? 

A)the summer of 1941 found increased tensions between the United States and Japan.
B)Italy and Germany declared war on the United States after Pearl Harbor.
C)All of the answers are correct. 
D)Americans froze Japanese assets in the United States.
E)Japan made the decision to confront the United States with its attack on Pearl Harbor.

Question 9

 The effects of World War II reached

A)North and South America.
B)Europe and Asia.
C)The Pacific region.
D)All of the answers are correct.
E)Africa.

Question 10

 In only the first year of the war,which of the following areas had not come under German military control?

A)Denmark.
B)Poland.
C)Holland.
D)Norway.
E)England. 

Question 11

 In Europe,World War II began with the invasion of Poland in

A)1935.
B)1939.
C)1940.
D)1941.
E)1944.

Question 12

 How did the fortifications France built as a result of World War I match the German invasion? 

A)it was not a match for the German navy. 
B)it was well-suited for the French Air Force. 
C)it failed to account for a German invasion through Belgium.
D)it failed to account for the German use of gas.
E)it was an ineffective barrier to German tanks. 

Question 13

 Which country failed to take Egypt in 1941? ​

A)Germany.
B)Egypt.
C)Ethiopia.
D)England.
E)Italy.

Question 14

 Winston Churchill's phrase,"This was their finest hour" is associated with

A)the Battle of Britain.
B)the Battle of Stalingrad.
C)Normandy.
D)Dunkirk.
E)El Alamein.

Question 15

 In addition to the Soviet Union,as a result of World War II,which nation(s)would emerge one of the dominant world powers?

A)Japan.
B)China.
C)Great Britain.
D)France.
E)The United States .

Question 16

 By negotiating a "lend lease" program for armaments,who became the "arsenal of democracy" in 1941?

A)Britain.
B)Free French.
C)Canada.
D)China.
E)United States.

Question 17

 Which of the following is associated with the war in Asia before Pearl Harbor?

A)All of the answers are correct.
B)Japan promised to free Asia from Western imperialists.
C)India was threatened by Japan.
D)Japanese attacks were made on colonial possessions of England,the Netherlands,France,and the United States.
E)1941 saw growing tensions between the United States and Japan.

Question 18

 The history of Nancy Wake involved

A)being brought up as a Jew in Germany.
B)being referred to as the "White Mouse" by the Gestapo.
C)travelling around the world as an American government official.
D)serving in the British nurse corps during the war.
E)the life of an Australian prisoner of war in Germany early in the war.

Question 19

 Because of a secret pact made before the war,Poland was occupied by both Germany and

A)Austria.
B)Bulgaria.
C)the Soviet Union.
D)Finland.
E)Lithuania.

Question 20

 Where did the Polish leaders form a government-in-exile in the 1940s?

A)Paris.
B)Stockholm.
C)Washington DC.
D)London.
E)Marseilles.

Question 21

 Which leader used the term "Great Patriotic Homeland War" to rally his people?

A)Stalin.
B)Gandhi.
C)Churchill.
D)Mussolini.
E)Mao.

Question 22

 The final German offensive was fought at the Battle of the Bulge in

A)France.
B)Belgium.
C)the Netherlands.
D)Germany.
E)Italy.

Question 23

 With Soviet troops closing in,where was Hitler when he committed suicide?

A)Dresden,during the firebombing.
B)In a bunker under Berlin.
C)Outside of Stalingrad.
D)At his vacation home in the Alps.
E)Munich at the Nazi headquarters.

Question 24

 Which of the following is associated with the end of the war in Europe?

A)Liberation of Paris in 1944.
B)All of the answers are correct. 
C)Battle of the Bulge.
D)Russian army entering Germany from the east.
E)Dresden fire bombings.

Question 25

 Chiang Kai-shek became an ally of the Allied forces by fighting Japan in

A)the Philippines.
B)Manchuria.
C)China.
D)Burma.
E)India.

Question 26

 Which of the following is associated with the final defeat of Japan in 1945?

A)Tokyo firebombing.
B)Japanese surrender announced by Emperor Hirohito.
C)Use of two atom bombs. 
D)Island hopping.
E)All of the answers are correct.

Question 27

 How did the war affect American citizens?

A)Because of full employment,housing construction increased.
B)In reaction to fascist racism,Americans became more tolerant of African and Japanese Americans.
C)They did not have to face government regulations of their private or professional lives.
D)They did not have to face various goods and food shortages.
E)Most found employment during the war years.

Question 28

 Which of the following describes the relationship between India and Britain during World War II?

A)Indians wholeheartedly supported Britain in declaring war on Japan.
B)The "Quit India" campaign called for Indian independence and appalled the British.
C)The Indian population gained economic benefits because of wartime production.
D)Gandhi and Bose became important leaders in the Indian-British government during the war.
E)None of the answers are correct. 

Question 29

 Japanese cruelty and brutality against American prisoners was seen after Pearl Harbor at

A)Bataan peninsula of the Philippines.
B)China.
C)Hong Kong.
D)Australia.
E)Dutch East Indies.

Question 30

 What is the term that describes American naval strategy in the Pacific?

A)Blitzkrieg
B)Fire bombing
C)Island hopping
D)Kamikaze
E)Unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 31

 The Japanese were on the defensive by

A)1945.
B)1943.
C)1944.
D)1942.
E)1946.

Question 32

 Unlike in the United States,wartime experiences in Europe and the Soviet Union involved which of the following? 

A)agriculture and industry were destroyed.
B)strong actions against anyone who appeared to be an enemy collaborator.
C)massive physical damage.
D)massive relocations from homes and villages.
E)all of the answers are correct.

Question 33

 When did Total War come to the German people? 

A)from the very beginning. 
B)after the Battle of Britain. 
C)after the Yalta Conference. 
D)after the Battle of Stalingrad. 
E)only in the last stages of war. 

Question 34

 ​In 1942,the Allies gained the momentum in the Pacific after defeating a Japanese naval armada in the Battle of _________.

A)​Midway
B)​Pearl Harbor
C)​Iwo Jima
D)​the Philippines
E)​Singapore

Question 35

 The beginning of the end of the Axis powers was seen in military reversals in which of the following? 

A)the Battle of El Alamein.
B)Stalingrad.
C)Italy.
D)Pacific Islands.
E)All of the answers are correct. 

Question 36

 V-J Day symbolizes

A)the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
B)the suicide of Hitler.
C)Japan's surrender. 
D)American troop landings at Normandy.
E)victory in Europe.

Question 37

 What decision was made by Roosevelt,Churchill,and Stalin at Teheran in 1943?

A)Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan
B)Allied invasion of the Soviet Union
C)Opening a second Allied front in France
D)Defeat the Japanese first
E)Assassinate Hitler

Question 38

 Who of the following was a leader in the fight against colonial powers for nationalism during or after World War II?

A)Gandhi.
B)All of the answers are correct. 
C)Mao Zedong.
D)Ho Chi Minh.
E)Chiang Kai-shek.

Question 39

 Which of the following is related to the defeat of Germany in its attack on the Soviet Union?

A)England remaining undefeated and a threat to Germany.
B)German supply lines that were stretched too long.
C)All of the answers are correct. 
D)Russian winter.
E)The tenacity of the Russian people.

Question 40

 Which battle resulted in arguably the most decisive turning point of the war for the Germans? 

A)Stalingrad.
B)Yalta. 
C)Sicily. 
D)Rome.
E)Moscow. 

Question 41

 Which of the following World War II nations was involved in the partition of Germany after the war?

A)The Soviet Union.
B)France.
C)England.
D)All of the answers are correct. 
E)The United States.

Question 42

 Felix Eboue supported and helped to raise troops for whom in the war?

A)Vichy.
B)Free French.
C)Germany.
D)Britain.
E)Japan.

Question 43

 The Stasi was an intelligence and spy agency in

A)Soviet Union.
B)East Germany.
C)Poland.
D)China.
E)France.

Question 44

 One of the central issues at the Yalta Conference was

A)the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
B)the fate of Poland after the war.
C)elections for a new government in Germany after the war.
D)Roosevelt securing Stalin's support for the United Nations. 
E)how to rebuild Dresden.

Question 45

 What was the Arab-British relationship during World War II?

A)Iraqi anti-British feelings led Iraq to publicly declare its sympathy for the Axis.
B)Upon hearing of the Jewish situation in Europe,Palestine opened its doors to Jewish immigrants.
C)Egypt,seeking independence,made an alliance with Italy.
D)British troops attacked and burned government buildings in Cairo and Baghdad
E)Egypt,fearing invasion,requested a British alliance.

Question 46

 What was the goal of the Yalta Conference in early 1945?

A)Make plans for the end of the war.
B)Coordinate the Allied assault into Germany.
C)How to handle the Jewish situation.
D)Choosing an Allied Commander for the European theater.
E)Establishing the foundation for the United Nations.

Question 47

 Which of the following describes how Americans saw themselves and how they were perceived by the rest of the world?

A)Americans retained their optimism and ideals.
B)Many saw the United States as being on the verge of imperialism in a world weakened by war.
C)Although the strongest nation in the world after the war,the United States faced impediments to its global vision.
D)All of the answers are correct. 
E)According to the United States,its ideals were universal.

Question 48

 The American-sponsored Bretton Woods Conference met in 1944 to prevent what repeat of World War I?

A)Rise in anti-Semitism.
B)Economic catastrophe.
C)Communist revolution.
D)Fascist movements.
E)Food shortages.

Question 49

 Not all Jews went meekly to their deaths,as witnessed by the ghetto uprising in

A)Rome.
B)Austria.
C)Paris.
D)Stalingrad.
E)Warsaw, Poland.

Question 50

 The Cold War in Europe was most apparent in the 

A)Berlin Airlift.
B)American and Soviet nuclear threat.
C)division of Germany.
D)Marshall Plan.
E)Holocaust.

Question 51

 One of the first covert actions of the United States' new CIA was to influence elections in

A)Germany.
B)France.
C)Greece.
D)Turkey.
E)Italy.

Question 52

 Which of the following statements describe African involvement in World War II?

A)the war had polarized South African whites in support of the Allies or Axis.
B)many Africans,not in the military,found new opportunities as whites left for the war.
C)all of the answers are correct.
D)the Atlantic Charter moved many Africans to ask for greater rights and tolerance.
E)Africans,involved in the war,came home with an expanded view and ideas of the outside world.

Question 53

 ____,who had appealed to the League Nations after the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935,returned to his throne in 1941.

A)Charles de Gaulle
B)Chaing Kai shek
C)Felix Eboue
D)Hailie Selassie
E)Bretton Woods

Question 54

 The core goal of the Truman Doctrine was

A)to free Czechoslovakia from Soviet control.
B)containment of Soviet expansion.
C)threatening the Soviet Union with war if its troops did not withdraw from Eastern Europe.
D)to use the American military to protect European democracies.
E)destroying the emerging Soviet nuclear arsenal.

Question 55

 Although it never joined the League of Nations,the United States was a member of the United Nations,which opened in ____ in 1945.

A)London
B)Paris
C)San Francisco
D)New York City
E)Versailles

Question 56

 While the Americans could use both economic and military power to gain allies,the Soviets had to rely on

A)the charisma-and-terror methods of Stalin.
B)the promises of a worldwide communist revolution to destroy capitalism.
C)characterizing the United States as an imperialist.
D)coercion and military threat.
E)the fear of an Allied threat in the future and the alliances needed to prevent it.

Question 57

 Which of the following was an original member of the Security Council of the United Nations?

A)The Soviet Union.
B)England.
C)France.
D)China.
E)All of the answers are correct.
F)United States.

Question 58

 The Truman Doctrine was an immediate reaction to the communist rebellion in ____ after the war.

A)Greece
B)France
C)Austria
D)Poland
E)Czechoslovakia

Question 59

 The Berlin Airlift was the result of

A)Russian occupation of all of Berlin.
B)disagreements between the Americans,British,and French over the control of Berlin.
C)Soviet blockade of the West's access to Berlin.
D)German rebellions inside the former capital.
E)major famines and disease inside the Western sector of Berlin.

Question 60

 What was the goal of the Wannsee Conference in 1942?

A)How to deal with underground movements in German occupied areas.
B)The effective use of captive civilians in the support of the war.
C)To establish the "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Problem."
D)The creation of youth corps to fight the Allies as the war neared the German homeland.
E)The assassination of Adolf Hitler.

Question 61

Please define the following key terms.

- Blitzkrieg

Question 62

Please define the following key terms.

- Axis Powers

Question 63

Please define the following key terms.

- Nancy Wake

Question 64

Please define the following key terms.

- Siege of Leningrad

Question 65

Please define the following key terms.

- Charles de Gaulle

Question 66

Please define the following key terms.

- Luftwaffe 

Question 67

Please define the following key terms.

- Atlantic Charter

Question 68

Please define the following key terms.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 69

Please define the following key terms.

- Bataan

Question 70

Please define the following key terms.

- Winston Churchill

Question 71

Please define the following key terms.

- Al Alamein

Question 72

Please define the following key terms.

- Battle of Stalingrad

Question 73

Please define the following key terms.

- Battle of Britain

Question 74

Please define the following key terms.

- Battle of the Bulge

Question 75

Please define the following key terms.

- Vichy

Question 76

Please define the following key terms.

- Phony War

Question 77

Please define the following key terms.

- Pearl Harbor

Question 78

Please define the following key terms.

- Free French

Question 79

Please define the following key terms.

- Allied Powers

Question 80

Please define the following key terms.

- Massacre at Katyn Forest